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moving an existing miro installation to a new computer
I was happily using Miro on a WinXp machine that died. On the new xp machine I copied all the videos from My Documents\My Videos\Miro to the new machine. Then I installed Miro 2.0.3, which I'm pretty sure is the version I had on the old Machine. Then I copied the contents of Program Files\Participatory Culture Foundation\Miro from the old hard drive and overwrote that folder on the new hard drive. I was trying hard to inherit all the settings and channels from the old installation.
When I run Miro now I find that I have none of the channels I had defined on the old installation even though in My Documents\My Videos\Miro I have folders corresponding to every channel I ever subscribed to and what appear to be all my saved Videos.
Please let me know what the savvy video addict should do to correctly transfer an installation to a new windows machine.
Much Thanks. And I love Miro
When I run Miro now I find that I have none of the channels I had defined on the old installation even though in My Documents\My Videos\Miro I have folders corresponding to every channel I ever subscribed to and what appear to be all my saved Videos.
Please let me know what the savvy video addict should do to correctly transfer an installation to a new windows machine.
Much Thanks. And I love Miro
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Inappropriate?You're almost there. There's one more directory you need to copy over and then you'll have everything. The other directory has the database in it which holds all the feed subscription information and a bunch of other Miro state things.
On my Windows XP installation, the last directory is in:
c:\Documents and Settings\willg\Application Data\Participatory Culture Foundation\
You need to copy that Participatory Culture Foundation folder from the old machine to the new machine.
Assuming the directory paths for all files is identical, you should be all set.
Hope it works for you!
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Will,
Thank you very much. This indeed did the trick for me. I'm a tad embarrassed I didn't think of it myself.
As long as I've got your attention; I've often toyed with setting up an Ubuntu machine. I was wondering if you could comment on what one would do if you were moving an existing winxp installation to Ubuntu. We'll say 8.11 for sake of argument.
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Inappropriate?Glad it worked!
I don't know if the data is portable between operating systems. There are two issues I can think of:
1. Windows XP file system has this screwy notion of case-sensitivity. But I'm pretty sure the sqlitedb has case-sensitive path-names coded in it. So when moving your movies from one system to another, you have to make sure the filenames maintain case.
2. Windows XP has a different character for denoting directories than other operating systems including Ubuntu. Windows XP uses \ while other operating systems use /.
3. Miro keeps the pathnames to files in the database and it's likely that the pathnames of your movies directory will be different between Windows XP and Ubuntu--it'd be really hard to make them the same.
However.... Ben just checked in code that turns our database from a table of pickle objects which are hard to work with into a bunch of separate tables in a relational model. That work would make a migration much much easier since you'd be able to move the files form one system to another and then write a trivial script to fix the pathnames in the database.
Ben's code will land for Miro 2.1. So if you wanted to wait a couple of months, then this will be a much easier task to accomplish.
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Very helpful Will, much appreciated
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