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Sims.Net Photo Extractor

A utility to export all the photos of current pupils or staff into a folder.

For copyright purposes you must ensure that you have the permission of the photographer before exporting any images with this utility.

To use:

  1. The utility must be run on a machine where Sims.net workstation or server is installed.
  2. First run GenerateConfigFile.bat. You must also run this everytime Sims.Net is updated. If Sims.Net is not installed in c:\program files\Sims\Sims .Net, you will need to modify the bat file.
  3. Copy a connect.ini into the folder.
  4. Run PhotoExport from the command line with 3 arguments, Sims username, Sims password and output folder.
  5. If you wish to export staff photos add another argument staff e.g. PhotoExport.exe blacka abcd myFolder staff
  6. You can also limit the student photos extracted to a specific year.
  7. PhotoExport will then export the photos into the folder.

You can run PhotoExport.exe /? for a brief help summary.

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For more information please email info@salamandersoft.co.uk.