Working with Your Files After an Upgrade

You can continue to connect to hosts and work with host screens using your existing session files and customized settings. In most cases you can continue to use your prior version files with no modification. Changes are always saved to new files using the new format; your prior version files are never changed.

Working with these files...

After the upgrade...

Terminal session files

(*.adp, *.edp, *.idp )

You can open your existing session files from the InfoConnect Desktop Workspace (which replaces the Accessory Manager), or by opening the files from the Windows file explorer. (If you configured a non-default file extension for you earlier version session files, you can also open these files from the Workspace.)

When you save your session after opening a legacy file, a new session document is created using the new format and a new file extension. The legacy session file remains unchanged.

InfoConnect Desktop introduces a new level of security by configuring trusted locations and requiring that session files be in a designated trusted location. Your Windows Documents folder is configured to be a trusted location by default, so legacy files in that folder will open successfully. If you saved files to a different location, you may need to add that location to the trusted location list.

Layouts (*.aww)

You can open your existing layout files from the InfoConnect Desktop Workspace or directly from the Windows file explorer.

New and modified layouts are saved using the new format and file extension (*.rwsp).

Keyboard maps (*.ekm)

InfoConnect Desktop supports your existing keymap files (*.ekm).

You can attach new InfoConnect Desktop sessions to current-version keyboard map files (*.xkb) or legacy keyboard map files (*.ekm).

QuickPads (*.eqp) and Toolbars (*.etb)

InfoConnect Desktop supports your existing QuickPad and toolbar files. (Toolbars are imported as QuickPads docked on the top of the session window.)

Modifications to existing QuickPads are saved using the new format and file extension (*.rqpx).

InfoConnect database (ic32.cfg)

After an upgrade, InfoConnect continues to use your existing database in its current location. All path configuration in the database continues to be used for existing session files and can be used to create new session files in the new format.

If you install on a new system, the database is created by default in a new location This folder location is configurable using the Data Location tab during installation. The default is C:\Users\Public\Documents\Micro Focus\InfoConnect. .

Hotspots (*.ehs)

Legacy hotspots files are migrated to the new hotspots file format (*.xhs).

Legacy hotspots are partially supported. Text hotspots mappings are imported. Region hotspots mappings are not imported.

Modifications to .ehs hotspots files are saved using the new hotspots file format and extension (*.xhs).

Extra! macros (*.ebm)

You can continue to run and edit most Extra! Basic macros. For details, see “EXTRA! Macros” in the InfoConnect product Help.

CASL macros (*.xwc, *.xws)

You can continue to run and edit your CASL macros. For details, see “CASL Macros” in the InfoConnect product Help.

Legacy UTS Color Schemes (.euc)

Legacy UTS color scheme files associated with legacy session files are converted to theme files (.themex) upon launching a session. Select existing supported theme files in the Manage Themes Dialog Box.

NOTE:Security Files (*.esf) which were used by the Accessory Manager frame to limit access, are not used by InfoConnect Desktop. There are other means of limiting access to InfoConnect Desktop features. See Locking Down Settings.