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        <title>How do I Activate a database?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/19/</link>
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Open the "Database" menu
Choose "Select Active Databases"
Choose the drive and directory that your database files are stored in by selecting the drive letter across the top and directory on th ...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:24:23 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>How do I create a 3 day food record?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/20/</link>
        <description>Creating a 3 day food record is as simple as creating 4 separate foodlists. You basically create 1 foodlist for each day and then 1 final foodlist to bring the 3 days together.

Create a foodlis ...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:25:06 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>How do I tell the program what Nutrients to show?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/21/</link>
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Go to the 'View' menu and select 'Nutrients to view'
Select 'Configure User Defined'
Put an X in the boxes for the nutrients you want to view.
Press OK.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:27:59 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>How do I backup (copy/archive) my files to a disk? (Windows 32-bit)</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/22/</link>
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Close down the program. Open Windows Explorer from Start|Programs.
Insert a blank disk in the drive. Inside of Explorer, double click on the folder that contains the program ("fpwin" or "genwin ...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:24:29 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>How do I create a new database in which to store my data?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/23/</link>
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Creating a new database starts with choosing where the database will reside.  As a recommendation, the new database should be created in the Data folder. This will make life much easier when the ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:25:24 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>Whenever I try to export the Label as a .bmp, clicking Save As ignores me (just disappears).</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/24/</link>
        <description>After clicking Save As, the program is attempting to suggest a file name for the resulting .bmp file. The suggested name is simply the foodlist name. Several characters are acceptable characters f ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:16:28 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>How do I merge two databases into one?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/25/</link>
        <description>1. Make sure both databases are active and that the destination database is marked as the Default Save File.
2. Go to the 'Database' Menu.
3. Choose 'Copy Items'.
4. Choose what type of databas ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:27:44 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>Can I print in color?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/26/</link>
        <description>Word of warning: This is a setting that can be chosen and has proven to work with many printers. However, it has also proven that some printers do not respond to this setting and print in grayscal ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:19:54 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>My pyramid values seemed to be waaaay off, especially the tip.</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/27/</link>
        <description>Read about how Pyramid Calculations are done. This file is a good reference piece, so you may want to print it out for future reference.</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:30:02 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>I'm getting the message 'File in use by another user'.</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/28/</link>
        <description>One file for some reason didn't realize that you (or a colleague) were out of the record when last exiting the program. One file controls the 'locking' feature of a given record.To correct this, f ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:29:30 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>I receive an XML errors when installing or running the program. What do I do?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/29/</link>
        <description>First, download a patch here.After download, make sure the program is not running when you install this patch, following the straightforward onscreen prompts.  After installation, the program shou ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:29:06 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>When building a foodlist, I press one of the function keys to search and nothing happens. Why not?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/30/</link>
        <description>The function keys are tied to the ESHA Quick Search files built on startup. Sometimes these files get damaged, or do not build correctly. If/when this happens, worse case scenario is (1) function  ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:32:37 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>All my new profiles display an age of 7 years and the nutrient values are all wrong. Why?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/31/</link>
        <description>This is a Y2K bug. A miscalculation of estimated birthdate causes inaccurate age display--affecting the calculation of all nutrients. There is no work-around.  This was fixed in Food Processor ver ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:19:04 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>When entering a food item, the only measures available are dry (g, kg, lb...).</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/32/</link>
        <description>For many items, in addition to entry measures of grams, kilograms, etc. you should be able to have household measures--cups, tablespoons, each, etc.Tied to each of the databases that comes with th ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:48:16 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>When trying to open a foodlist (or profile), my OPEN dialog box is empty or missing some foodlists (or profiles).</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/33/</link>
        <description>Generally speaking 1 of 2 things are causing this problem:
1. The database(s) where your files are stored are not activated.To correct this, choose Databases|Select Active Databases and select th ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:33:13 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>How do I backup (copy/archive) my files to a disk? (Windows 3.x or 16-bit)</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/34/</link>
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Close down the program. Open up File Manager in the Main folder.
Insert a blank disk in the drive. Inside of file manager, double click on the folder "fpwin" or "genwin". This should spring out ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:24:26 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>Can Protein be shown on the Nutrition Facts Panel (label) as %DV?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/35/</link>
        <description>Only the Genesis R&D SQL version does allow for %DV to be displayed on a Nutrition Facts panel.  The basic label available in The Food Processor applications, as well as the labeling capabilities  ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:09:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title>I get an error during installation, 'ProcessBeforeDataMove(),' what do I do?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/36/</link>
        <description>This is an issue with Windows NT or Windows 2000. To fix this, you need an administrators login to do the installation. Once the adminstrator has logged in, everything should install normally.</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:30:04 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>How do I save to a disk in Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, or XP (32bit)?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/37/</link>
        <description>With a completed foodlist, profile, or new food item entry, click to save the entry as usual. In the Save As dialog box that appears, click on the Change button near the middle. Listed you will se ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:16:51 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>When analyzing or previewing any data, there are no nutrients listed. How do I fix that?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/38/</link>
        <description>Generally, this is caused by 1 of 3 things:1. The default or user-defined set of nutrients has been cleared.To fix this, from within the program, click View / Nutrients To View / Configure User De ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:32:30 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>'Unable to add you as a current user' occurs when I launch the program.</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/39/</link>
        <description>This is a result of 1 of 2 things:
1. If the program is installed to a network drive, then it's possible that the permissions for a given user aren't setup correctly.  Under Novell, the user will ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:18:52 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>I'm getting 'no data' error messages for some food items in my foodlist.</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/40/</link>
        <description>This can be caused be a few different things: 1. Make sure that the database containing the item is listed as active (steps).2. The food item in question was saved with a specific item stored in a ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:29:21 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>When adding certain items, my Total Weight, Serving Size and Percent Weight (%Wgt) values disappear? How do I fix that?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/41/</link>
        <description>For a handful of the 20,000+ items in the ESHA database, when added to a foodlist the Total Weight and Serving Size values disappear. This has occurred because the food item's nutritional informat ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:32:24 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>When I save my recipe to a floppy disk and then look at the contents of the disk, I don't see my recipe.</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/42/</link>
        <description>What you most likely see on the disk is a bunch of files that begin with 'List'. The  reason for this is that the program doesn't work with 'files' in the traditional sense, it works with 'databas ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:32:49 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>When viewing a report or setting my User Defined Nutrients, many nutrients are missing.</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/43/</link>
        <description>The set of selected nutrients are stored in the program's .ini file. This particular symptom may be caused by one of two things: (a) the ini file is damaged; (b) the database file housing nutrient ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:33:20 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>When building a foodlist, no matter what I search for I get 'No items found matching the search criteria'</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/44/</link>
        <description>Generally, 3 things can cause this: (1) There are no active database files, (2) your index files may need to be refreshed, or (3) the default search setting has been disbled (Genesis only).  (1) T ...</description>
        <author> </author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:32:43 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>'An error occurred while attempting to save' (32 bit or Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP)</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/45/</link>
        <description>Could be a number of things, most commonly the databases are not in the current format. Close the program, and launch the Maintain program (maintain.exe) in the same directory as Food Processor. A ...</description>
        <author>Josh Luth</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:16:32 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>Using a Jump Drive to save data</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/47/</link>
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Creating a new database to save to:

Make sure drive is plugged in before you start The Food Processor or Genesis 
Open Food Processor or Genesis 
Open up Database > Select Active Databases ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:31:41 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>Does the upcoming change in Daylight Savings Time affect my ESHA Software?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/49/</link>
        <description>All ESHA software uses the system time for any date/time stamp.  In short your ESHA software should be unaffected.</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:28:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title>Why do I get a different amount of Calories when I use the 4-4-9 calculation?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/50/</link>
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There are five ways to calculate Calories for a label, three of the most popular being the 4-4-9 formula, 4-4-9 minus fiber, and Atwater Factors.  Manufacturers usually use 4-4-9 or 4-4-9 minus  ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:28:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title>When launching Help, I am met with a Navigation Canceled message.  Why is that?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/51/</link>
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We use Microsoft's HTML help for our help files. Some time ago, Microsoft updated their HTML help to effectively disallow accessing a compiled help file in a network location. In other words, yo ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:55:45 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>I get a message to Pack Database because I may soon exceed internal limits.  How do I handle that?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/53/</link>
        <description>This message is (mostly) a warning, rather than an error. Specifically, first and foremost, it indicates that the database that holds these records is reaching internal limits. While there is some ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:47:24 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>How do I convert from The Food Processor standard to The Food Processor SQL?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/55/</link>
        <description>The Food Processor SQL Edition uses a completely redesigned SQL database, and is not directly compatible with the data files from previous non-SQL versions. However, your data can be converted int ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:53:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title>Transfat on Nutrition Facts panel</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/115/</link>
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To display Trans Fat on a US Nutrition Facts panel:  1. Close any open foodlist.  2. Click View / Settings.  3. Check the box for 'Show Trans Fat on US Nutrition Facts panel.'  4. Click OK until ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:31:19 PDT</pubDate>
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        <title>Can I update my Food Processor to the latest version of the software?</title>
        <link>http://kb.esha.com/questions/122/</link>
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Any existing Windows-based version of Food Processor can be either updated or converted to the current version of Food Processor R&D SQL.  
Food Processor program program versioning follows a c ...</description>
        <author>Patrick Murphy</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:00:37 PDT</pubDate>
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