Mike Swanson
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Recovered Darv's VB6 source for the Valley Wide Plastering Orders application from the D: backup drive (label "Backup", 8 TB, 5.3 TB used). This is the first time we've had the actual source — prior session only had a single frmPayroll.frm from the AD server. Three project variants identified across two snapshots: - Full-Project/ (2,129 files, 124 MB) — D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\Full\Project\ - Kingston-Project/ (2,189 files, 130 MB) — D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\Kingston\Project\ - Source/ (170 files, 559 MB) — D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\Source\ wholesale - SOURCE-HOLD/ (3 files, 1 MB) — D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\SOURCE HOLD\ Latest ORDERS_C.vbp date is 2020-06-09 (Kingston snapshot). Production Orders_10A.exe was live as of April 2024 — open question whether newer source exists on other backup drives Mike will scan next. Also includes per-category and per-keyword analysis CSVs from a WizTree file-list export, plus the analyzer script that produced them (re-runnable for the next drive's CSV). VMs (VWIN7-DW.vdi 8.3 GB + XP-for-ORDERS_copy.vdi 2.8 GB), the live VWP.mdb, and the 393 MB raw WizTree CSV stay on disk only — gitignored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.vbpdate: 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\andHistory\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
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
- Source:
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
- Source:
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:
- Darv stopped maintaining source after 2020 and made later changes some other way (unlikely)
- Newer source exists on other backup drives — re-run this scan on the next drives Mike connects, filter for
.vbpmtime > 2020-06-09 - 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