“We have a stand-alone CD version. We currently store the student data on the local machine, but that has now been networked. We would like to store the student data on the server instead, as this will make backing up the data easier.”

This works for version 3.06 onwards ONLY. Attempting this with earlier versions will result in data loss and corruptions.

1. Find the data folder and make a back-up of the contents.
Wordshark data folder is "shark-shared" or for more recent versions "wordshark-shared".
Numbershark data folder is "nshark-shared" or "numbershark-shared"
These may most easily be found by carrying out a "search" for "*.sha"

2. Uninstall.

3. Manually delete the -shared directory.

4.  Make a similarly-named  folder on your server, and share it across the network. It will need read/write/modify permissions for all users. We suggest you make it a “hidden folder” after testing.

5. Reinstall. Mid way through installing, choose the new directory/location for student data. Note that if you have a newer network version this may be a different name to your older CD directory name (e.g. Old CD  may be “shark-shared”, new network version will be “Wordshark-shared”).

6. On completion of the install, copy the contents of the old folder into the newly created one.

7. Test the new installation.