The ID badge software provides no internal mechanism to delete a database. This is quite intentional to reduce the possibility of destroying data accidentally. You can delete badges from the database using the Edit, Delete Selected menu function, see Deleting Selected Badges in the Operation chapter.
To remove the database entirely you must use Windows™ Explorer to remove the files associated with the database. The names of the files will be the same as the database but the extensions will depend upon the type of file format used. The exact files associated with database will vary with database type. In some cases the database table may be inside another file, as is the case with MS Access files and the sample database. Extra care should be taken before deleting these files as other unrelated database tables may be contained within them. The sample database for V2.0 and later has these files:
· SAMPLE.IDC - the base file for the database
· SAMPLE.MDB - the MS Access database file
· SAMPLE.LDB - the MS Access index file
In addition, this directory contains a sub-directory called SAMPLE.~~~ which contains all the photographs. Delete this sub-directory and the files listed above to remove the SAMPLE database.
If the database fields have been changed, some of the table names will have a revision number added to the end of the name part.
[You can also delete SAMPLE.CTM, the sample card template file, but this is not strictly part of the SAMPLE database.]
The directory structure for the SAMPLE database can be found in Database Organization.