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Old January 8th, 2010, 12:07 PM   #125 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by prattleon View Post
seems like a nice app, however, i was so annoyed by the restriction on adding a an older service (one in which the odometer reading is less than a more recent one). i started entering data and then realized i was going to have to start over because i didn't enter records in the order of the mileage reading. a warning would be nice but to restrict it is not cool.
The problem is that you've not tried to keep the date/time and odometer reading of your fillup/service records in sync! Of course you CAN enter your records in whatever order you want but you should just keep them in sync. For example, when entering a record for "Jan 2, 2010" and odometer reading of "23,430.8", it's not logical thus not valid to enter a seconrd record for "Dec 23, 2009" and odometer reading of "23,822.6"!! You see the point?

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Originally Posted by prattleon View Post
i went to use it again, hoping that i could find a way to enter data into a .CSV file and import it, but i could not find such a feature. the backup is a .abp file which is a barcode file from what i understand. is there a way to edit this so i can input records on my computer and import them into aCar?

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Data import feature has been planned for v1.2.0 and it will include import from CSV format. ".abp" is just a backup file extension indicating "aCar Backup Package" :-) Nothing to do with barcode file format. Of course ".abp" is actually a ZIP file which contains some XML representing the application settings, your data and some metadata. But it's not a good practice to edit its content and to add your data there (for import). I do not recommend this at all! If you can wait a while, you'll get a pretty clean import feature!

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