Move FX Packages to New Computer

[John Rofrano]

[Ernest Rosado] “I have the old C: drive hooked up as a USB drive though. Are there files I can copy over to restore these FX Packages?”

Actually this data is kept in a combination of the Windows Registry and the file system (which is why Sony wrote a utility). The registry will point to any files it needs. Without being able to get to the registry on your old computer it may be impossible to retrieve this data.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Ernest Rosado]

Thanks for your reply.

Blech. I was told by two different IT guys that the “image backups” we make daily to the NAS drive would be sufficient to recover anything in the event of a crash. Is there no way to extract the data from that old registry?

Thanks again!

[John Bolton]

If it is REALLY an image backup then it will contain everything.. BUT as been mentioned they are scattered in different places…

WIN 7

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM : system32configsystem
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SAM : system32configsam
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SECURITY : system32configsecurity
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE : system32configsoftware
HKEY_USERS UserProfile : winntprofilesusername
HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT : system32configdefault

Never tried to open these directly on another HDD.
=====

If the backup is just Data to the NAS then it won’t have system files.

Not sure if this helps but I guess you can try and let us know,,,,,,

[John Rofrano]

[Ernest Rosado] “I was told by two different IT guys that the “image backups” we make daily to the NAS drive would be sufficient to recover anything in the event of a crash.”

They are correct, providing you are restoring them to the same computer. Your problem is you bought a new computer so the system drivers will need to be different.

[Ernest Rosado] “Is there no way to extract the data from that old registry?”

If you can mount the backup as a drive you could Google “offline edit windows registry” and find several tutorials on how to open a remote hive.

You are looking for:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DirectShow\Presets\FX Packages\The keys will be under there and point to files like:%AppData%\Sony\FX Packages\{key_name}\[filter package name].sfvWhere {key_name} is a Globally Unique ID (GUID) and [filter package name] is what ever name you gave the filter package. You will need to copy those .sfv files as well and put them in the same place on your new computer.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Ernest Rosado]

That’s INCREDIBLY helpful, thank you. I’ll give it a try tomorrow when I’m back in front of it.

[John Rofrano]

Great, let us know how you make out… and GOOD LUCK! 🙂

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com