# VWP Orders — Source Code Recovery from D: Backup Drive

**Recovered:** 2026-05-16
**Source drive:** D:\ (label `Backup`, 8 TB, 5.3 TB used) — one of several VWP backup drives in Mike's possession
**Provenance CSV:** `../WizTree_20260516172207.csv` (393 MB raw export, gitignored)
**Analysis CSVs:** `../source-analysis/D-drive-2026-05-16/` (per-category, per-keyword)

## What's in here

### `Full-Project/` — Darv's "Full" project tree
- **Source:** `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\Full\Project\`
- **Filtered to extensions:** `.vbp .vbg .vbw .frm .frx .bas .cls .ctl .ctx .res .rpt .ini .cfg .sql .qry .txt .md .doc .docx .pdf`
- **Master copy** (most files, older snapshot)
- Latest `ORDERS_C.vbp` date: 2019-11-05

### `Kingston-Project/` — Darv's Kingston USB project tree
- **Source:** `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\Kingston\Project\`
- **Filtered** (same extension list)
- **Newer** ORDERS_C.vbp (2020-06-09) but fewer files — likely his current working snapshot from the USB stick
- The "Kingston" naming refers to the Kingston-branded USB drive Darv used

### `Source/` — `Darv\Source\` wholesale
- **Source:** `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\Source\` (555 MB, 169 files)
- Contains a `History\Package\` and `History\Package2\` (InstallShield packages?)
- Has older files dating back to 1997 (`C4dll1210.dll`), 2002-2012 various
- Likely a personal scratch / archive area, not the live source

### `SOURCE-HOLD/` — `Darv\SOURCE HOLD\` wholesale
- **Source:** `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\SOURCE HOLD\` (2 files only, < 1 MB)
- Named "HOLD" suggests intentional snapshot

### `000_ASource/` — Darv's "active source" folder (from drive 2)
- **Source:** `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\000_ASource\` (drive 2, label `Backup`, 12 TB)
- 12 files, ~768 MB (mostly the `Vwp.mdb` which is gitignored — only ~4 MB of source/config goes to git)
- **`TEST_VWP.vbp` dated 2021-08-16** — the only .vbp on either drive newer than the 2020-06-09 ORDERS_C.vbp baseline. Likely an experimental scaffold (only 810 bytes).
- **`frmLotInfo*.frm` variants** dated 2020-10 to 2021-08 — Darv was iterating on a form. The `JJ` and `Z` and `5JJ` and `5Z` suffixes are his variant-marker convention.
- **`Vwp.mdb` dated 2022-10-19** (764 MB) — newest database snapshot anywhere, two years more recent than what the prior session had. Gitignored; on local disk only. Useful for schema-evolution analysis.
- **`MSSCCPRJ.SCC` file** — Microsoft Source Code Control project file. Confirms Darv was using **Visual SourceSafe**. There may be a SourceSafe repository (`srcsafe.ini`) on a later drive that contains full version history. Worth grepping for `*.scc / srcsafe.ini` on subsequent scans.

### `from-VWP2-97server/` — Darv's iteration workspace (from drive 3)
- **Source:** `D:\97-Server-G-Drive\g$ 2024-04-10 21;13;45\VWP2\` (drive 3 snapshot of the production Orders server `G:` drive)
- **886 files, ~893 MB committed** — filtered to *.exe, *.rpt, *.ocx, plus VB6 source extensions (none found)
- **64 Orders\*.exe versions** — Darv's complete iteration history. Filenames follow his "iterate-and-rename" pattern: `Orders_10A.exe` (the production EXE), `Orders_10Z.exe`, `Orders22.exe`, `Orders24.exe`, `XXOrders_08.exe`, `XOrdersXX.exe`, etc. Spans 2021-2022+ build dates.
- **820 .rpt Crystal Reports** — current and historical report templates
- **Skipped:** 23 historical Vwp.mdb backups (~15.8 GB) and 6 subfolders (HOLD, HHOLD, Pay_2021_0325, GWAC, 20220205, 20211010 RPT — mostly more MDBs). We already have 2022-10, 2022-12, and 2023-07 MDB snapshots from other locations.

### `from-VHDX-VWP1/` — Office admin "owner" workstation (from drive 3, mounted VHDX)
- **Source:** `D:\WIN7-Orders\Darv-2\VWP1.VHDX` (117 GB Hyper-V disk, 2023-09-01)
- VHDX was mounted read-only as F: drive on 2026-05-16, scanned, then dismounted
- **NOT Darv's dev machine** — this is the "owner" user's accounting/admin workstation that used the Orders app
- **`Orders-Versions/`** — Desktop folder with 2 EXEs (Orders22.exe Nov 2021, Orders24.exe Mar 2022) and 7 `.lnk` shortcuts ALL pointing to `G:\VWP2\Orders*.exe` — confirms G:\VWP2\ on 97-Server was the live shared location
- **`database-snapshots/Vwp11_2023-07-27.mdb`** (369 MB, gitignored) — **newest DB snapshot anywhere** (9 months newer than 000_ASource's 2022-10 copy)
- **`database-snapshots/Vwp_2022-12-23_from-Desktop.mdb`** (769 MB, gitignored) — December 2022 snapshot
- **`misc/VWP1202Fix.zip` + `.log`** — undated fix package from 2017

### `VMs/` — VirtualBox disk images (gitignored)
- **`VWIN7-DW.vdi`** (8.3 GB) — Darv's actual Windows 7 Dev workstation
  - Source: `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\VirtualBox\VWIN7 DW.vdi`
  - Boot this to get his full dev environment with VB6 IDE, paths, dependencies intact
- **`XP-for-ORDERS_copy.vdi`** (2.8 GB) — XP runtime for compiled Orders
  - Source: `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\VM_VDI\XP for ORDERS_copy.vdi`
  - Useful for runtime testing of the compiled Orders_10A.exe

## Three VB6 project variants identified

| Project | Purpose | Latest .vbp | Location pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| `ORDERS_C.vbp` | Main Orders application | 2020-06-09 (Kingston) | `Project\VWP_Current\` |
| `ORDERS_Cx.vbp` | Variant (possibly experimental) | 2018-12-11 | `Project\VWP_Current\` |
| `ORDERS_I.vbp` | Invoicing module | 2019-03-21 | `Project\VWP_Inv\` |

Also `VWP_Current_0317/` and `VWP_Update/` folders exist — likely interim dev branches.

## What was intentionally NOT copied

| Class | Why skipped |
|---|---|
| `Recovery\Darv\` (78 GB) | Older copy of master Darv folder — same source, older snapshots |
| `Estimating Archive 2024-04-23 01;46;22\Darv\` (135 GB) | Bit-for-bit duplicate of master Darv per WizTree size/file count |
| 635 `.mdb` Access DB backups (195 GB total) | Live `VWP.mdb` already in `source-analysis/`; historical schema snapshots can be revisited on demand |
| 14 OVA exports of VMs (58 GB) | Largely duplicates of the two VDIs we grabbed; OVAs are portable but less efficient for running |
| `Darv\Full\Program Files\` (large) | Darv's installed dev tools — the VWIN7-DW.vdi already contains his complete installed environment |
| `Darv\HD2 Info\Darv\` (6.25 GB) | Secondary HD info, lower priority |
| `97-Server-G-Drive\Users\Darv\` (7 GB) | Older server snapshot, superseded by Office-Estimates\Darv\ |
| `VWP-ADSVR\Users\Darv\` (24 GB) | AD server profile — the live copy (with the lone `frmPayroll.frm`) was already analyzed in 2026-04-27 session |

## Open question — the 4-year gap

Latest `.vbp` modification on D:\ is **2020-06-09**. The production `Orders_10A.exe` was live in April 2024. Either:
1. Darv stopped maintaining source after 2020 and made later changes some other way (unlikely)
2. **Newer source exists on other backup drives** — re-run this scan on the next drives Mike connects, filter for `.vbp` mtime > 2020-06-09
3. The 2020 source IS substantially the production code — minor or no functional changes since

Once additional WizTree CSVs are dropped in `source-analysis/`, re-run `analyze_wiztree.py <csv> <out>` to cross-reference.

## Tools

- `../source-analysis/analyze_wiztree.py` — re-runnable WizTree CSV analyzer
- `../source-analysis/size_candidates.py` — folder-size triage script