In college I purchased Quickverse 4 Deluxe with a couple Bibles and commentaries (which I still have). This was a great help with my term papers and homework, I started quoting the Bible a whole lot more with cut & paste.
After graduation I purchased Version 5 Enhanced with many more books, and I used this more as I started preaching. Unfortunately version 5 does not work with XP, but so long as it was only my laptop running XP I was just fine.
So when I moved my primary desktop from 98SE to XP in 2004 I had to upgrade to version 8. The problem was that I just purchased the standard version and I couldn’t get it to recognize my large collection of older books (including the NIV). This meant that I was using my old computer for sermon writing until I could get it figured out.
After a few hours of digging I discovered how to manually add my collections into Q8 again and how to manually manage the library.xml file to adapt everything to my own preferences.
In late 2005 I reinstalled my OS from scratch to do some changes on my system and I archived my old installation. Nearly 2 years later I have reinstalled Q8 (plus the 8.0.4 update) and just went through a bit of a headache to reintegrate my previous changes. My Library is once again sanely organized and named, and all my books are there. I did forget to backup the QVProfiles folder from the “Application Data” folder in Documents & Settings, but I didn’t lose much there.
All of this because I start teaching a Bible Study tomorrow night and need quick reference again.
Hey Bob…just a silly trivia question for you. Do you remember the original author of QuickVerse, and know what he’s doing now?
Craig Rairdin wrote it, and then was hired by Bob Parsons (current CEO of GoDaddy).
I’m not sure what Craig is up to now for his job, but he sure likes airplanes.