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Kadoogan
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Totalnotes & Mercury Document System

Hi,

These are two portable applications that I have used often over the past couple of years. I have just purchased a new flash drive as my old one no longer works and have installed the programs. However I cannot register them as the process involves contacting the software developer's server and this results in an error. Their website www.richskills.com, leads to a screen saying that the domain has expired.

Is anyone aware of what has happened to this company, or know anyway of registering the software without having to contact their server? Please note that I am not trying to get the software for free. I paid for both programs 2 or 3 years ago and I just want to carry on using what I paid for!

Any help in tracking down a contact for the company would be much appreciated.

Failing that, is anyone aware of software that would do a similar job?

Jason.

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is anyone aware of software that would do a similar job?

The difficulty in answering this question is, what do they do? Please give us a description of their functionality so we can respond.

Kadoogan
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Well the main question was

Well the main question was really aimed at someone already familiar with them and the company that made them, but yeah, the info would have been useful!

Totalnotes is a multi-functional program which includes calendar, email, web browser and document filing modules. Although the last version I had could have done with some refinement it was a great idea that worked well in the main.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/TotalNotes.shtml

Mercury Document System is a dedicated document filing system. It's a handy app that lets you archive various kinds of documents (html, txt, doc, xls, PDF, CHM etc). It covers a similar function that the document filing module in Totalnotes did, but I found it scaled better when you had hundreds of documents in the database.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/Mercury-Document-sys...

Like I said in my original post I just need to find a way of registering them. I have codes but the software insists on communicating with the developer's server. As the domain has expired I assume they are no longer in business but I thought I'd ask and see if anyone knows for sure.

I hate this method of registering software. I can understand why some want to do it that way, but when a developer ceases to exist it does leave it's users without the software they paid for.

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Since I didn't know anything

Since I didn't know anything about the two apps in question or the company that put them out, I couldn't help with the main question, so I solicited information on the trailing question.
It sounds like TotalNotes was a combination of Firefox (browser), Thunderbird (email), and Sunbird (calendar), and a file management module. There is also a Thunderbird addin that provides the Sunbird functionality (called Lightning) from the same folks. Portable versions of all of these are available here.
Document management is the toughest of these to define, since it could be many things to different people. For me, I make do with a simple file manager, like xplorer2lite or nexusfile (many others available). Someone else may need something more like EverNote with it's ability to copy whole files of a diverse nature into its database. Another solution, which is open source, would be subversion, which is a full check-in/check-out repository. I have not used it.

I hope my comments help, if you are unable to get in contact with the developer of your current products.

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Thanks for the comments

Thanks for your comments.

I'll take a look at Sunbird. I use Thunderbird at home anyway so I am familar with that.

I haven't heard of Subversion. I'm not sure from my initial search that it's quite what I was looking for, but I'll investigate further. Mercury was a fairly basic looking application that conssisted of three main windows, a folder tree, file list for the current selected folder, and then the main window shows the content of the file. I found it a very convenient way to browse through a huge amount of files without having to launch another application in order to view each one. EverNote looks closer to what I want so I'll give that a try.

I use a Mac at home and there are a few examples of this type of application but I have never come across another example for Windows.

Anyway, I appreciate the suggestions and will check them out. I'd still like to hear from anyone that may know what happened to Essential Skill Consultants (the developer), but neither of the two applications in question were particularly well-known so it may be unlikely. They did a couple of encryption products (Remora Disk Guard was one of them) as well.

Cheers!

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