Migrating to a new laptop

dj_marv

I'm thinking of buying a new MacBook pro. Is there a way to move ME settings, sequencer settings etc over in one swoop?

Nick

You can copy across the MixEmergency folder, which is within your Movies folder. This has all of your Presets, and a lot of MixEmergency's settings. For all of your Preferences, it gets a little more complicated... You will need to open the Terminal application, then save the preferences, copy them to your new computer, and then load them onto that new computer (also via the Terminal application). To save them to a file on the Desktop: defaults export com.inklen.MixEmergency ~/Desktop/MixEmergencyPreferences.plist To load them from the same file: defaults import com.inklen.MixEmergency ~/Desktop/MixEmergencyPreferences.plist Also, don't forget to deauthorise MixEmergency on your old computer, if you're not planning to use it anymore, as this will free up your authorisation for a new computer.

dj_marv

Thanks. I will try it when I get the new laptop. Same applies if I was doing a clean OS install too yeah? Merry Christmas

Nick

Yep, same applies there.

dj_marv

That worked a charm. All my settings and preferences were moved to New laptop This brings me to another question Is there a way to migrate content say from internal HD to external HD (or even to a different folder) easily and not have to do everything ground up again. Something like a relocate files option? At least if the name of the files are unchanged.

Nick

No, there's no easy way to do this, unfortunately.

dj_marv

No easy way does not mean its impossible

Nick

I just mean that almost all of the files used by MixEmergency (in the folder ~/Movies/MixEmergency/), that point to content, are XML files - so these can be edited, but it would be a real pain to do.