Even though EasyWorship is what its name says, EASY, we can all use some help to find out what this great worship software package can do. Here is the projectionists control panel.
GENERAL HELP
EasyWorship can import from CCLI or SongSelect.
Easyworship has a good selection of backgrounds plus you can add others from your hard drive, the web, or a USB drive or CDROM.
This is the EasyWorship Background Options screen where you add other backgrounds.
Or you can design your own with the EasyWorship Background Designer
Once you have your backgrounds setup, you can choose from among over 100 EasyWorship transitions.
You can add PowerPoint presentations to your schedule.
You can save schedule on a USB drive [memory stick] and import into your church computer. Everything you added to EasyWorship on your home computer will be imported into your church projector computer. No need to type anything over again.
You can add scripture verses from any of numerous free and paid Bible versions which can be added to EasyWorship.
BACKING UP EASYWORSHIP SONGS or MOVING EASYWORSHIP SONGS to ANOTHER COMPUTER
METHOD 1 How do I back up my Easyworship data?
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All of your Songs and Background images are stored in the default path which is c:\program files\softouch\easyworship\data.
1. At your Windows desktop, Left click on the My Computer icon.
2. Open the Local Disk C:
3. Open the Program Files folder.
4. Open the Softouch folder.
5. Open the Easyworship Folder.
6. Right click on the Data folder and select Copy.
7. Now minimize the Window that you have open and right click the Windows desktop and select Paste.
8. You will now have a copy of your Data folder on your desktop. You can also burn a copy of the Data folder to a CD using your CD burning software, or copy the Data folder to a USB key.
9. You can also backup your Image and Videos folder which are located in the default path c:\program files\softouch\easyworship\resources by copying the entire resources folder to a USB key or burning it to a CD.
To copy your data to another computer:
1. Take the copy of your Data folder and burn it to a CD or copy it to a USB key.
2. Place the CD or USB key in the the computer that you want to copy the Data folder to.
3. Copy the Data folder from the CD to the default path c:\program files\softouch\easyworship.
4. This will replace the existing Data folder and any songs on this machine with the ones in the Data folder that you copied from the other machine.
METHOD 2: How do I transfer my songs from one computer to another?
All the data is stored in the data directory off of the EasyWorship installation directory. Usually C:Program Files/Softouch/EasyWorship or My Computer/C Drive/Program Files/Softouch/EasyWorship.
Note: This procedure will overwrite the database on the computer you are transfering your database to.
1. Open the Data folder on the old computer normally in c:\program files\softouch\EasyWorship.
2. Copy all of the files named songs.* and songkeys.* to a CD or USB memory stick. (There will be 9 sometimes 10 files)
3. On the new computer Copy the songs* and songkeys* files to c:\program files\softouch\EasyWorship\data.
4. Click yes to all to overwrite the files that are already there.
Note: If you are transfering a database from and older version of EasyWorship to a newer version, delete the version.dat file. then go to step 5.
5. Open EasyWorship.
When you open EasyWorship back up, your songs from the old computer will be available in EasyWorship on the new computer.
This will only transfer your songs from one computer to another. You will need to transfer any backgrounds or videos that don't show up to the new computer manually.
