Questions on reinstalling Photoshop CS in a new computer

Guillermo Giagante wrote:

I plan to change my computer this week, and obviously, will have to reinstall Photoshop CS in the new computer.
My question is how should I move my actions, plug-ins, configurations and custom tools from my old installation to the new one.
My doubt is if I just have to copy and paste a few files (and in this case, which would be the files to look for) or if there0s any other process (export and import-like, for example) that would be more convenient. I’d also like to know if, beside the 4 things I mentioned before, are there any other files to consider when reinstalling the software (of couse, I won’t forget my psd and tiffs :-)).
Thanks.
Guillermo Giagante

Save yourself a lot of headaches and buy True Image from Acronis. Clone your old drive on your new computer and start rolling right away

Stephan

I doubt that will work. Different motherboard, cards, etc. Imaging programs work well on one computer.

Brian

Save yourself a lot of headaches and buy True Image from Acronis. Clone your old drive on your new computer and start rolling right away
Stephan

Use Norton Ghost or Drive Image. Restore everything from your old drive to your new computer. If you are using XP, it should search all new drivers for your new motherboard for you. If you use 98, just put in your new drivers disk and install the new drivers. I have done it recently. It works.

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I doubt that will work. Different motherboard, cards, etc. Imaging

programs

work well on one computer.

Brian

Save yourself a lot of headaches and buy True Image from Acronis. Clone your old drive on your new computer and start rolling right away
Stephan

If you are setting up a new computer, the last thing you need is to clone your old disk. Apart from the likelihood as Brian K says that it won’t work, you don’t want to transfer all the accumulated crap that windows leaves on the hard disk over time.

Transferring your old Photoshop settings, actions and plungins is just a matter of copying the relevant files across to the new computer.

Your settings are stored in C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Applications Data\Adobe\Photoshop. Just copy the folder and any sub folders across to the new machine. You may have to set your file browser options to show hidden files to see this folder.

Actions are stored in C:\Program Files\Adobe\PhotoshopCS\Required. Again you can just copy the whole folder across to the new machine.

Plugins sit in C:\Program Files\Adobe\PhotoshopCS\Plug-Ins. Once again you can either copy the whole lot (including sub folders) across or take to opportunity to clean up you filters and just copy the ones that you really need.

AlexR.

Brian K wrote:

I doubt that will work. Different motherboard, cards, etc. Imaging programs work well on one computer.

Brian

Save yourself a lot of headaches and buy True Image from Acronis. Clone your old drive on your new computer and start rolling right away
Stephan

I’m surprised. I’ve not seen it work successfully between two different computers. Same model computers, sure.

Brian

"Camera" wrote in message

Use Norton Ghost or Drive Image. Restore everything from your old drive to
your new computer. If you are using XP, it should search all new drivers for your new motherboard for you. If you use 98, just put in your new drivers disk and install the new drivers. I have done it recently. It works.

Whether it works or not, why would you want to transfer your bloated registry files and dll’s that have been left over from shoddy un-installs to a brand new computer? Ghost and Drive Image are great tools for replacing a sick hard disk and getting you up and running quickly, but If you’ve got a new computer you are much better off doing a fresh install of windows and your apps.

AlexR.

Brian K wrote:

I’m surprised. I’ve not seen it work successfully between two different computers. Same model computers, sure.

Brian

"Camera" wrote in message

Use Norton Ghost or Drive Image. Restore everything from your old drive to
your new computer. If you are using XP, it should search all new drivers for your new motherboard for you. If you use 98, just put in your new drivers disk and install the new drivers. I have done it recently. It works.

I agree.

"Alex R" wrote in message

Whether it works or not, why would you want to transfer your bloated registry files and dll’s that have been left over from shoddy un-installs to a brand new computer? Ghost and Drive Image are great tools for replacing a sick hard disk and getting you up and running quickly, but If you’ve got a new computer you are much better off doing a fresh install of windows and your apps.

AlexR.

Brian K wrote:

I’m surprised. I’ve not seen it work successfully between two different computers. Same model computers, sure.

Brian

"Camera" wrote in message

Use Norton Ghost or Drive Image. Restore everything from your old drive to
your new computer. If you are using XP, it should search all new drivers for your new motherboard for you. If you use 98, just put in your new drivers disk and install the new drivers. I have done it recently. It works.

Alex R wrote:

Whether it works or not, why would you want to transfer your bloated registry files and dll’s that have been left over from shoddy un-installs to a brand new computer? Ghost and Drive Image are great tools for replacing a sick hard disk and getting you up and running quickly, but If you’ve got a new computer you are much better off doing a fresh install of windows and your apps.

Who would want have the new computer ready very fast?
Anyone using the computer to work and not having time to download all the stupid Windows updates and patches!
It always seems like it is going to be a quick job to start from scratch but in the end you wasted a full day.

Stephan

Brian K wrote:

I doubt that will work. Different motherboard, cards, etc. Imaging programs work well on one computer.

Brian

It does work fine

Stephan

Alex R wrote:

If you are setting up a new computer, the last thing you need is to clone your old disk. Apart from the likelihood as Brian K says that it won’t work, you don’t want to transfer all the accumulated crap that windows leaves on the hard disk over time.

You leave it there, not Windows

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:17:10 GMT, Stephan wrote:

Alex R wrote:

Whether it works or not, why would you want to transfer your bloated registry files and dll’s that have been left over from shoddy un-installs to a brand new computer? Ghost and Drive Image are great tools for replacing a sick hard disk and getting you up and running quickly, but If you’ve got a new computer you are much better off doing a fresh install of windows and your apps.

Who would want have the new computer ready very fast?
Anyone using the computer to work and not having time to download all the stupid Windows updates and patches!
It always seems like it is going to be a quick job to start from scratch but in the end you wasted a full day.

Doesn’t matter whether you use Acronis or not. Try cloning the drive and see what happens when the drivers for your old machine try and work on your new machine – in particular the mobo drivers…

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If you are setting up a new computer, the last thing you need is to clone your old disk. Apart from the likelihood as Brian K says that it won’t work, you don’t want to transfer all the accumulated crap that windows leaves on the hard disk over time.

Transferring your old Photoshop settings, actions and plungins is just a matter of copying the relevant files across to the new computer.
Your settings are stored in C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Applications Data\Adobe\Photoshop. Just copy the folder and any sub folders across to the new machine. You may have to set your file browser options to show hidden files to see this folder.

Actions are stored in C:\Program Files\Adobe\PhotoshopCS\Required. Again you can just copy the whole folder across to the new machine.
Plugins sit in C:\Program Files\Adobe\PhotoshopCS\Plug-Ins. Once again you can either copy the whole lot (including sub folders) across or take to opportunity to clean up you filters and just copy the ones that you really need.

AlexR.

One caveat though – some filters require that you do an "install" from that company’s CD, as there will be other files (usually System files) that are needed. If you don’t have any of those, then the above is the best way to do it. If you don’t have the ability to connect the old -> new via NIC, or other network, you can just copy your Actions, etc. to CD with their existing folder hierarchy. Then copy the folders (or individual files where necessary) to the new installation. If Win asks you "Replace… ?" just say no, as that file was a default one included in PS.

I also agree that a clean install is a lot better, though either way seems to be more work, than it should be. Oh well, at least you have the joy of a new machine, kinda’ like Christmas day!

Hunt

Hecate wrote:

Doesn’t matter whether you use Acronis or not. Try cloning the drive and see what happens when the drivers for your old machine try and work on your new machine – in particular the mobo drivers…

Still faster to replace a few drivers than reinstalling the whole damned Windows.
Or not?

Stephan

Faster to get up and running on a slower machine!!

Windows98 used to run for 12 to 18 month before the accumulated crap from various installs and un-installs slowed the computer to such an extent that you had to reformat the hard drive and do a clean install. Win2K/XP is better in this regard but even so after two or three year you will find a significant decrease in performance. If you are starting off with a new machine it is worth spending a day or so installing everything from scratch.

AlexR.

Stephan wrote:

Hecate wrote:

Doesn’t matter whether you use Acronis or not. Try cloning the drive and see what happens when the drivers for your old machine try and work on your new machine – in particular the mobo drivers…

Still faster to replace a few drivers than reinstalling the whole damned Windows.
Or not?

Stephan

On 07-Feb-05 19:15, Hecate wrote:

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:17:10 GMT, Stephan wrote:

Alex R wrote:

Whether it works or not, why would you want to transfer your bloated registry files and dll’s that have been left over from shoddy un-installs to a brand new computer? Ghost and Drive Image are great tools for replacing a sick hard disk and getting you up and running quickly, but If you’ve got a new computer you are much better off doing a fresh install of windows and your apps.

Who would want have the new computer ready very fast?
Anyone using the computer to work and not having time to download all the stupid Windows updates and patches!
It always seems like it is going to be a quick job to start from scratch but in the end you wasted a full day.

Doesn’t matter whether you use Acronis or not. Try cloning the drive and see what happens when the drivers for your old machine try and work on your new machine – in particular the mobo drivers…
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Hecate – The Real One

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My last computer had some problem that I couldn’t fix, so I built a new machine and installed the hard drive from the broken computer.

They guy at the place that helped me build the computer booted to safe mode and we installed the mobo drivers and other drivers and rebooted and it worked.

I know a clean install of the OS is the preferred way to go but sometimes you go with other options.

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JD..

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 05:13:29 GMT, Stephan wrote:

Hecate wrote:

Doesn’t matter whether you use Acronis or not. Try cloning the drive and see what happens when the drivers for your old machine try and work on your new machine – in particular the mobo drivers…

Still faster to replace a few drivers than reinstalling the whole damned Windows.
Or not?

Not. Because you don’t know which ones are causing problems and with the wrong drivers the computer ma fail to boot up at all.

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On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:45:46 GMT, JD wrote:

My last computer had some problem that I couldn’t fix, so I built a new machine and installed the hard drive from the broken computer.
They guy at the place that helped me build the computer booted to safe mode and we installed the mobo drivers and other drivers and rebooted and it worked.

I know a clean install of the OS is the preferred way to go but sometimes you go with other options.

Yeah, you can do that, but it’s a lot of hassle and you only have to make one mistake to have a non-bootable computer.

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On 08-Feb-05 20:16, Hecate wrote:

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:45:46 GMT, JD wrote:

My last computer had some problem that I couldn’t fix, so I built a new machine and installed the hard drive from the broken computer.
They guy at the place that helped me build the computer booted to safe mode and we installed the mobo drivers and other drivers and rebooted and it worked.

I know a clean install of the OS is the preferred way to go but sometimes you go with other options.

Yeah, you can do that, but it’s a lot of hassle and you only have to make one mistake to have a non-bootable computer.

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Hecate – The Real One

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When it is done right, it isn’t that much of a hassle.

I did manage to screw up my oldest HD because it now has some fatal error trying to find an updated driver that I missed installing, but I learned from that mistake and was able to update my older HD to run on the new box.

So, I guess it was kind of a hassle….

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JD..

Right from the Acronis Website:

How can I prepare my Windows XP, NT or 2000 system for cloning or migrating the data to different hardware?

In order to clone your Windows system or migrate it to different hardware, you should first prepare Windows using Microsoft System Preparation Tool (sysprep). According to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article — 298491: "One problem from duplicating an installation of Windows 2000 is that each cloned computer has the same security identifier (SID) and computer name. This may prevent the cloned computers from functioning correctly in a workgroup or a domain. To work around this problem, administrators use the System Preparation Tool (Sysprep.exe) to remove configuration settings that are unique to the computer such as the computer name and SID. The resulting image can then be safely reused for installation on other computers." This issue also exists in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows XP, and thus computers running those operating systems must be prepared as well.

To download Microsoft System Preparation tool, click on your operating system: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP.

In brief, here is how you prepare your disk drive to create a master clone image or to migrate data:

Create Acronis True Image 8.0 bootable rescue media with Rescue Media Builder available in Acronis True Image 8.0 program menu. Run sysprep.exe. Microsoft give you the option to specify the following keys:

-nosidgen — If you plan to erase all data from the original hard disk and/or do not plan to use both original and new hard disks in different computers simultaneously, use this option.
-mini — if you plan to migrate your operating system to a computer with different hardware.
Prepare to reboot the computer. First, put the Acronis True Image 8.0 bootable rescue media in the CD drive and boot the system. Now run the program and create an image of the prepared hard disk.
Install the new hard drive into your computer or take the image you just made to your new computer.
Boot from Acronis True Image 8.0 rescue media again and restore the image to the new hard drive or computer.
Reboot the computer.

We recommend you to read Microsoft articles regarding using sysprep on your operating system, available at the following links: Windows NT
4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP.

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:15:11 +0000, Hecate wrote:

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:17:10 GMT, Stephan wrote:

Alex R wrote:

Whether it works or not, why would you want to transfer your bloated registry files and dll’s that have been left over from shoddy un-installs to a brand new computer? Ghost and Drive Image are great tools for replacing a sick hard disk and getting you up and running quickly, but If you’ve got a new computer you are much better off doing a fresh install of windows and your apps.

Who would want have the new computer ready very fast?
Anyone using the computer to work and not having time to download all the stupid Windows updates and patches!
It always seems like it is going to be a quick job to start from scratch but in the end you wasted a full day.

Doesn’t matter whether you use Acronis or not. Try cloning the drive and see what happens when the drivers for your old machine try and work on your new machine – in particular the mobo drivers…
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Hecate – The Real One

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From the Acronis Website

How can I prepare my Windows XP, NT or 2000 system for cloning or migrating the data to different hardware?

In order to clone your Windows system or migrate it to different hardware, you should first prepare Windows using Microsoft System Preparation Tool (sysprep). According to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article — 298491: "One problem from duplicating an installation of Windows 2000 is that each cloned computer has the same security identifier (SID) and computer name. This may prevent the cloned computers from functioning correctly in a workgroup or a domain. To work around this problem, administrators use the System Preparation Tool (Sysprep.exe) to remove configuration settings that are unique to the computer such as the computer name and SID. The resulting image can then be safely reused for installation on other computers." This issue also exists in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows XP, and thus computers running those operating systems must be prepared as well.

To download Microsoft System Preparation tool, click on your operating system: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP.

In brief, here is how you prepare your disk drive to create a master clone image or to migrate data:

Create Acronis True Image 8.0 bootable rescue media with Rescue Media Builder available in Acronis True Image 8.0 program menu. Run sysprep.exe. Microsoft give you the option to specify the following keys:

-nosidgen — If you plan to erase all data from the original hard disk and/or do not plan to use both original and new hard disks in different computers simultaneously, use this option.
-mini — if you plan to migrate your operating system to a computer with different hardware.
Prepare to reboot the computer. First, put the Acronis True Image 8.0 bootable rescue media in the CD drive and boot the system. Now run the program and create an image of the prepared hard disk.
Install the new hard drive into your computer or take the image you just made to your new computer.
Boot from Acronis True Image 8.0 rescue media again and restore the image to the new hard drive or computer.
Reboot the computer.

We recommend you to read Microsoft articles regarding using sysprep on your operating system, available at the following links: Windows NT
4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP.

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 02:15:11 +0000, Hecate wrote:

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 05:13:29 GMT, Stephan wrote:

Hecate wrote:

Doesn’t matter whether you use Acronis or not. Try cloning the drive and see what happens when the drivers for your old machine try and work on your new machine – in particular the mobo drivers…

Still faster to replace a few drivers than reinstalling the whole damned Windows.
Or not?

Not. Because you don’t know which ones are causing problems and with the wrong drivers the computer ma fail to boot up at all.
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If you do try what Stephan suggests and follow Acronis and Microsoft’s recommendations on how to do this, let us know how it worked out. This could be a good learning experience for all regardless on how it turns out

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 06:09:58 GMT, Stephan wrote:

Guillermo Giagante wrote:

I plan to change my computer this week, and obviously, will have to reinstall Photoshop CS in the new computer.
My question is how should I move my actions, plug-ins, configurations and custom tools from my old installation to the new one.
My doubt is if I just have to copy and paste a few files (and in this case, which would be the files to look for) or if there0s any other process (export and import-like, for example) that would be more convenient. I’d also like to know if, beside the 4 things I mentioned before, are there any other files to consider when reinstalling the software (of couse, I won’t forget my psd and tiffs :-)).
Thanks.
Guillermo Giagante

Save yourself a lot of headaches and buy True Image from Acronis. Clone your old drive on your new computer and start rolling right away
Stephan

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:00:23 -0800, JCL wrote:

If you do try what Stephan suggests and follow Acronis and Microsoft’s recommendations on how to do this, let us know how it worked out. This could be a good learning experience for all regardless on how it turns out

Yes, I’ll be very interested to hear from somone who tries it. But it won’t be me 😉

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