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LonWar

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Move MC To Another PC
« on: March 10, 2006, 07:38:07 pm »

Sorry Guys... I know this has been covered before, But I can not find a thread for it...    :-[


I just got me a new Computer, Now I need to set it up. How can I copy MC to this computer and still retain my Smartlists and settings.
I know to back up the Library, But wasn't there a registry that I had to copy?


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lalittle

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Re: Move MC To Another PC
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2006, 08:37:23 pm »

How can I copy MC to this computer and still retain my Smartlists and settings.
I know to back up the Library, But wasn't there a registry that I had to copy?

The Library Backup should retain the playlists/smartlists, but it won't retain the settings.  I asked about this myself, but I never found out any method of "moving" my settings to a new system.  I always have to re-setup all my settings when I install MC on my systems.  It would be nice if there was a file that could be created that would allow this -- i.e. a "move MC to another system" button that created a file containing all the "moveable" settings.

Note that you'll have to generate a new license key via the MC site.

Larry
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dcwebman

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Re: Move MC To Another PC
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2006, 08:09:33 am »

I did this recently but just bit the bullet and had to keep switching between both machines to see what else I needed to change. I wanted to just copy the registry tree but I was moving from drive D to C for my library, different CD burner, etc. It would be nice if there was an easy to way to transfer everything applicable.
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LonWar

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Re: Move MC To Another PC
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2006, 11:22:16 am »

I didn't realise the backup had the View and Smartlist info.... That was good enough.


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lalittle

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Re: Move MC To Another PC
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2006, 02:00:46 pm »

I didn't realise the backup had the View and Smartlist info.... That was good enough.

Does it have the View info as well?  I thought I remembered having to recreate the view configuration.

Larry
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LonWar

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Re: Move MC To Another PC
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2006, 02:07:07 pm »

Does it have the View info as well?  I thought I remembered having to recreate the view configuration.

Larry

I will double check tonight.... But I think it does....
(I didn't have time to check to see if everything was there)
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Re: Move MC To Another PC
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2006, 02:21:14 pm »

It has the current views, but not the saved view and sorting presets. MC stores the presets in the registry.
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