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Subject: [OM] [OT] Moving computer software
From: Brian Gray <bsg017@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 15:25:32 +0000
   Chuck said
<What Moose said except that he forgot to add that you will need to
formally "share" the files in question between the 2 computers.
Otherwise you won't even be able to see them let alone copy them.

With Tom on his old machine: go to Windows Explorer, navigate to the C
drive (and others if you have them), right click the C drive and offer
to *share* it for *read only* access.  You can also offer write access
but there's no need for that here.  You can also navigate down the list
of folders and share only specific ones if you choose.  I'd normally
recommend only doing selected ones but Tom wants to copy all of the data
files which may be just about everywhere.

With Tom on his new machine:  Go to Windows Explorer and navigate to the
network section.  There you should see the names of the other computers
on your local network and perhaps other devices as well such as your
printers.  Click on "Tom's old computer" (whatever it's called) to open
it up and you should then see the C drive or the folders which were
offered for sharing.  With another instance of Windows explorer showing
the drive on the new machine you should be able to do drag and drop from
the old file folders to those on the new machine.  If you drag and drop
the entire folder it should copy the entire thing including the folder
with its old name.>

I certainly agree in principle with this but my experience seems to be that if y
ou are moving things to Windows 7 or Windows 8 systems this way from computers u
sing earlier versions of Windows, it is not always totally straightforward setti
ng up the network and 'authorising' cross viewing, and/or transfer of files.  Th
is seems to be especially true if one or more of the computers has several autho
rised users with passwords. As a result, Microsofts 'improvements' to security h
ave not always been welcomed in my house!

I would be interested to hear how the transfer goes in practice.
Brian Gray
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