[SD-User] relocating SD

[Stephen Emlyn-Jones]

My apologies for not replying to the various messages of assistance.
I did in fact reply before but it seems that the email has got lost in the ether.
I have now successfully relocated all the old contest logs and have SD working to its fully capacity.
73
Steve
GW4BKG

> On 16 Jun 2018, at 10:55, Martin Davies G0HDB <marting0hdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11 Jun 2018 at 19:25, gw4bkg--- via SD-User wrote:
> 
>> I am in the process of migrating to a new PC and have successfully
>> reinstalled the application.
>> 
>> I want to move my old contest logs but am not sure where they are located
>> and the best way to do this.
>> 
>> Tks
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> GW4BKG
> 
> Hi Steve, I don't know if you've received any replies to your query above - I haven't seen 
> anything come through via the SD-User mailing list - but you should find all your old logs in 
> the same directory/folder in which the SD program was installed on your old PC.
> 
> For example, I've got SD installed on the E: drive in my 'radio' PC; in my case the full path of 
> the folder is E:\Win-SD and all the log files are in that folder and have the suffix .ALL.  
> 
> To copy all the log files to your new PC you'll just have to navigate to the folder where SD is 
> installed (in your case it might be C:\SD), then select all the .ALL files, copy them onto a USB 
> memory stick and then copy all the files from that into the SD folder on your new PC.
> 
> Depending on how you've got your old PC configured (I'm assuming it's a Windows PC) you 
> might find it necessary to change the folder options to show filename suffixes so that you can 
> see the full filenames including the .ALL (and other) suffixes.
> 
> WHn you look in the SD folder you might find a load of other files with contest names, eg. 
> BERU2017, but with different filename suffixes such as .NOT, .AUD, .ADI, and .LOG.  You 
> could copy all of these from the SD folder on your old PC onto the USB memory stcik and 
> then into the SD folder on your new PC; although it's probably not essential it would ensure 
> that you've got everything relating to your previous contest logs on the new PC.
> 
> One thing that you might want to bear in mind is that on PCs with more recent versions of 
> WIndows, eg. Win 10, it's not recommended that you install any 'user apps' such as SD into 
> the C:\Program Files folder because of the way that Windows does its user account 
> management on that folder - it's better to use a completely separate folder either on the C: 
> drive or, even better, on a completely separate logical drive such as my E: drive.
> 
> I hope that helps,
> 
> --
> 73, Martin G0HDB
> 
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