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Migration management advice sought
I’m getting new mac hardwaer for the editing room delivered next week. The evndor is in charge of the migration, but I have added a bunch of free stuff, apps and fx plug-ins, that sort of thing, that I will have to migrate over to the new box myself after installation. And I think the old tower goes out when the new one comes in. So my question is about how to best assure I can locate and preserve those apps and plug without having to go all over the net to re-acquire them onto the new machine?
Secondary, related question: I don’t want to give up the content from my Motiom 3 when the Motion 4 comes in. How/can I save off that content to keep with Motion 4? Or is that even an issue?
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5 Replies
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If you are loading the same system version in both machines, clone your System HD and forget about “Migration”.
rafael -
But I’m not Rafe; it will be going to Snow Leopard and FCP 7. Also, I don;t get to do the migration. Instead of “migration” maybe a better, more accurate descriptor would be: “evacuation and subsequent repatriation of old favorite content after the upgrade”.
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Hi Mark,
The thing you have going for you, is that you understand what you need to do. Unfortunately there’s no tool that will grab all your plug-ins, presets, and settings for FCP and load them onto your new Mac.
Every couple of years, I need to do the same thing. I always make sure I have all my serial numbers written down (for plug-ins, etc.) and I usually have one folder on a USB drive with all my plug-ins. Also I’ll try to copy the presets and templates folders of the apps that I want to transfer. Example: Library/Application Support/Compressor – will have compressor presets that I’ll want to migrate onto the new Mac. Unfortunately you need to think through the settings, templates and presets that you’ll need for the new Mac. Most of them are store in the Home/Library folder.
You’ll probably need to download and run newer installers for most of your plug-ins, so I wouldn’t kill yourself trying to store all the installers since you probably need to go to the website for a recent version.
Hope this helps,
Good Luck
Todd at UCSB
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That’s kind of what I had thought. Oh, well, that’s progress:-)
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Hey fellow Illinoisan Mark,
I would take the hard drives out of the old system that have your work history, plug-ins, added apps. etc. and keep them. It seems ridiculous that you would have to give back a now “old and used” boot drive to a vendor. It’s not like you’re swapping out a very expensive RAID system from a vendor.
Then, I would buy an external SATA dock for $25-$30 that you can plug those 3.5″ drives into and mount as externals on your new system to sort through what is valuable/will work on the new tower when you have time. That way, you’re not in a time crunch to find every little thing on the drive to copy before the old tower is escorted out of your facility.
And, if you must relinquish your drives for whatever strange reason, as Rafael said, in cloning the drive, you could do the same thing with the SATA dock as it’s not going to be the new boot drive so it doesn’t matter if it’s an older OS, etc. It will just come up as an external so you can pilfer what you want from it.
Chad Brewer
Senior Broadcast Videotape Operator
TeleVersions, LLC
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