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>
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# VWP Orders — Source Code Recovery from D: Backup Drive
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**Recovered:** 2026-05-16
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**Source drive:** D:\ (label `Backup`, 8 TB, 5.3 TB used) — one of several VWP backup drives in Mike's possession
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**Provenance CSV:** `../WizTree_20260516172207.csv` (393 MB raw export, gitignored)
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**Analysis CSVs:** `../source-analysis/D-drive-2026-05-16/` (per-category, per-keyword)
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## What's in here
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### `Full-Project/` — Darv's "Full" project tree
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- **Source:** `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\Full\Project\`
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- **Filtered to extensions:** `.vbp .vbg .vbw .frm .frx .bas .cls .ctl .ctx .res .rpt .ini .cfg .sql .qry .txt .md .doc .docx .pdf`
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- **Master copy** (most files, older snapshot)
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- Latest `ORDERS_C.vbp` date: 2019-11-05
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### `Kingston-Project/` — Darv's Kingston USB project tree
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- **Source:** `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\Kingston\Project\`
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- **Filtered** (same extension list)
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- **Newer** ORDERS_C.vbp (2020-06-09) but fewer files — likely his current working snapshot from the USB stick
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- The "Kingston" naming refers to the Kingston-branded USB drive Darv used
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### `Source/` — `Darv\Source\` wholesale
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- **Source:** `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\Source\` (555 MB, 169 files)
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- Contains a `History\Package\` and `History\Package2\` (InstallShield packages?)
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- Has older files dating back to 1997 (`C4dll1210.dll`), 2002-2012 various
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- Likely a personal scratch / archive area, not the live source
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### `SOURCE-HOLD/` — `Darv\SOURCE HOLD\` wholesale
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- **Source:** `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\SOURCE HOLD\` (2 files only, < 1 MB)
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- Named "HOLD" suggests intentional snapshot
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### `VMs/` — VirtualBox disk images (gitignored)
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- **`VWIN7-DW.vdi`** (8.3 GB) — Darv's actual Windows 7 Dev workstation
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- Source: `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\VirtualBox\VWIN7 DW.vdi`
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- Boot this to get his full dev environment with VB6 IDE, paths, dependencies intact
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- **`XP-for-ORDERS_copy.vdi`** (2.8 GB) — XP runtime for compiled Orders
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- Source: `D:\Office-Estimates\Darv\VM_VDI\XP for ORDERS_copy.vdi`
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- Useful for runtime testing of the compiled Orders_10A.exe
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## Three VB6 project variants identified
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| Project | Purpose | Latest .vbp | Location pattern |
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| `ORDERS_C.vbp` | Main Orders application | 2020-06-09 (Kingston) | `Project\VWP_Current\` |
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| `ORDERS_Cx.vbp` | Variant (possibly experimental) | 2018-12-11 | `Project\VWP_Current\` |
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| `ORDERS_I.vbp` | Invoicing module | 2019-03-21 | `Project\VWP_Inv\` |
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Also `VWP_Current_0317/` and `VWP_Update/` folders exist — likely interim dev branches.
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## What was intentionally NOT copied
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| Class | Why skipped |
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| `Recovery\Darv\` (78 GB) | Older copy of master Darv folder — same source, older snapshots |
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| `Estimating Archive 2024-04-23 01;46;22\Darv\` (135 GB) | Bit-for-bit duplicate of master Darv per WizTree size/file count |
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| 635 `.mdb` Access DB backups (195 GB total) | Live `VWP.mdb` already in `source-analysis/`; historical schema snapshots can be revisited on demand |
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| 14 OVA exports of VMs (58 GB) | Largely duplicates of the two VDIs we grabbed; OVAs are portable but less efficient for running |
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| `Darv\Full\Program Files\` (large) | Darv's installed dev tools — the VWIN7-DW.vdi already contains his complete installed environment |
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| `Darv\HD2 Info\Darv\` (6.25 GB) | Secondary HD info, lower priority |
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| `97-Server-G-Drive\Users\Darv\` (7 GB) | Older server snapshot, superseded by Office-Estimates\Darv\ |
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| `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 |
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## Open question — the 4-year gap
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Latest `.vbp` modification on D:\ is **2020-06-09**. The production `Orders_10A.exe` was live in April 2024. Either:
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1. Darv stopped maintaining source after 2020 and made later changes some other way (unlikely)
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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
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3. The 2020 source IS substantially the production code — minor or no functional changes since
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Once additional WizTree CSVs are dropped in `source-analysis/`, re-run `analyze_wiztree.py <csv> <out>` to cross-reference.
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## Tools
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- `../source-analysis/analyze_wiztree.py` — re-runnable WizTree CSV analyzer
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- `../source-analysis/size_candidates.py` — folder-size triage script
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