PageFour FAQs and Features27 Feb 2007 11:15 am
A common question from PageFour users is how to go about moving PageFour and all their Notebooks and Pages to another PC. It’s a relatively straight forward process, though there are a few steps that need to be followed.
- Download and install the latest version of PageFour to your new PC.
- If you are running a licensed version, open the License dialog from the Help menu and enter the product key you were given when you purchased. This will have been sent to you via email, but if it has been lost or misplaced, contact us with the name you used when making the purchase, and we’ll track it down for you.
- Did you set a PageFour password on your old PC? If the answer is yes, open the Password dialog on your new PC by selecting the ‘Tools | Change Password’ menu, and set the password so that it corresponds to the one on your old PC.
- On your new PC, open the Options dialog from the ‘Tools | Options’ menu, click on the Miscellaneous button, and make sure the Location of Notebook Pages value is the same as your old PC. (This step is not critical, but it will make the moving process less prone to human error)
- Close PageFour.
- Locate your PageFour files folder on your old PC. An earlier blog post outlines how to go about finding this folder, which may or may not be named ‘PageFour’.
- Copy this folder in its entirety from your old machine to the same location on your new machine. When prompted by Windows, simply agree to overwrite any existing files or folders with the same name.
- Reopen PageFour on your new PC. All your old Notebooks and Pages will appear, and all customised dictionaries and archives will be in place.
- Two default Notebooks, ‘First Novel’ and ‘My Notebook’ will have been created when PageFour was installed on your new PC. These can be deleted at any time.
If you still cannot see your PageFour Notebooks, the problem will almost certainly lie in the Location of Notebook Pages. This should be checked again to ensure that you copied the PageFour folder to the correct location, as it is very easy to inadvertently drop or copy into the wrong folder.
The above image demonstrates the correct structure of your PageFour folder.
February 13th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I have a new Mac
Can I install Page Four in it?
Thanks for prompt answer.
lfnt
February 13th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I’m afraid not. PageFour will only run on Windows operating systems.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:35 am
I maintain two desktop computers, one in North America, the other in Asia. Obviously, I cannot use both simultaneously.
Do I need to purchase 1 or 2 licenses in order to keep moving formward on a major book that I work on variously in both locations?
January 4th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
A single license is valid for both PCs Tom - the location of the computers doesn’t matter, as long as they’re both for your own use.
January 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Hi,
Since I have two PCs now, I want to work with them both. I saw the previous post about licenses, which was helpful.
The next question is how can I go back and forth between PCs to work on one or more notebooks?
Thanks.
January 16th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Tammy, you should use the Import/Export feature on the Tools menu, which allows you to synchronise either all Notebooks, or individual notebooks or folders. A fuller explanation can be found here.
January 16th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Darren,
Thank you. This product seems to fit my needs.
March 13th, 2009 at 10:46 am
can two computers on the same network use pagefour from a shared location?
March 13th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Yes they. You need to be careful though, and ensure that both user accounts have full access rights to all files in the shared folder, and you need to ensure the network is always available to both PCs. If the network is found to be unavailable when PageFour opens, it will open to its default location.