It's a tragic position to be in. (I was tempted to title this, "Help. My JVM has fallen and CF can't get up", but I fear that dated and veiled 80's reference would go over the heads of many of my readers.)

The thing is, there are several reasons why your attempt to update CF's JVM can fail, and fortunately I can offer several things you can look at to hopefully quickly recover from or undo things. If you're interested, read on.

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After complaining about how poorly he felt CF had responded to his seeking help, he threw in additionally that "the existing private consultants prices are a total joke - they are taking us for a ride!".

Well, I just couldn't let go his comment go unremarked.

I started to write my reply there, but it grew long (as is my wont). So rather than post there (where most comments are brief), I decided to post it here instead and point to it there. Perhaps some of my readers here may appreciate it as well, as I also talk about some thoughts on CF troubleshooting in general.

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But what if those solutions don't work for you? Or what if you didn't know of them before installation, and now you have dozens of dsn's, scheduled tasks, mappings, or other settings you want to get from one machine/release to another?

You are NOT stuck having to manually copy settings from one screen to another! (And you should be very careful about the common hack solution of copying neo*.xml files from one instance to another, which may not always work and may break things.)

In this entry I'll discuss how you CAN indeed import the CF admin settings from ANY release of CF into ANY OTHER release of CF, in a fully supported way, and which CAN be done even after installation of a new CF release.

I'll also mention an important potential gotcha to beware, as well as how to to get around that.

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Read on for more, including a gotcha regarding importing from previous release Standard editions, but for many this news will be a delight and all they need to know.

For more on what the CAR mechanism is, finding more on it, the gotcha (and what NOT to do if you hit that gotcha), and info on still more hidden gems in CF, read on.

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