[QLab] Migrating Computers

[Rich Kenny]

Chris,
   Sure does help. Thanks for helping once again.

Thanks Again,

Richard Kenny
richkenny at rejenet.com




On Jan 27, 2007, at 3:50 PM, Christopher Ashworth wrote:

>
> On Jan 27, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Rich Kenny wrote:
>
>> Is there a way that you can take your programed show, and put it
>> onto another computer without having to re-add each file again? I
>> tried putting all of the audio files in the same directory, but the
>> profile names are different. Any ideas?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "profile names", so sorry if this is
> what you already tried:
>
> The way to move between computers is based on the working directory.
> If you made the workspace with all the files in a single directory,
> then you're most of the way there.
>
> So let's assume that you set the working directory to be the same
> directory that contains all the files.  You'd copy that directory
> over to the new computer, and then change the working directory so
> that it points to the new location of that directory on the new  
> machine.
>
> Example:
>
> You're files all started out in:
>
> /Users/chris/Desktop/My_Show_Files
>
> Your working directory was:
>
> /Users/chris/Desktop/My_Show_Files
>
> You copied that folder to a new computer:
>
> /Users/FOHSound/My_Show_Files
>
> So you'd also need to change the working directory to:
>
> /Users/FOHSound/My_Show_Files
>
>
> There's a long-standing request to add a feature to do an automated
> "export" of all the files for easy transfer (which I hope to add
> relatively soon), but for the moment you have to be sure that the
> files are all in the same folder ahead of time.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Christopher
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