Jim Dean Sage   Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA  User Profile | Yet another way, too … If you install OT on both machines, you can create a "batch" file that copies the user-related folders from the C drive of your most recently used machine into the external drive (or for that matter, a USB stick), then a similar batch file to copy those folders from the USB to the other machine. However - you must be very careful to select all the related folders and files that fully define your environment, profiles, strategies, etc etc - non trivial. An easier way is to simply copy the entire OT20xx folder, even though that takes longer. You can do that with Explorer and no batch file is needed. The only gotcha is that when you delete files (such as a chart template or profile, etc) from machine A, then transfer the full environment to USB and to machine B, the deleted files will "reappear" unless you wipe the target drive first. It's messy. I have done it plenty of times but you have to be very careful and very thorough. I truly wish that Nirvana would provide for ALL user-related files to be optionally stored on a different drive. It would allow us to do tighter, more disciplined backups, and would also make the thing you are trying to do, to be quite simple. | |
