Can anyone shed any light on how to "move" a Register360 project to another PC. I have the project stored on an external HDD and set the storage path on the new PC to reflect the HDD containing the project but the project doesn't appear in the OPEN dialogue.
I'm going to experiment with archiving and importing but this (assuming it works) would be a pretty time consuming process to simply move the project to another PC.
Any thoughts?
"Moving" a Register360 Project
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Re: "Moving" a Register360 Project
Archiving can't be the way to do this as the 75GB project took 2.5 hrs to archive!
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Re: "Moving" a Register360 Project
A few pointers.
Reg360 is working in Jetstream so just moving a folder from one place to another wont work as the Database system doesn't work like that.
When you installed Reg360 you would have pointed to the external drive as your project Storage location which is never a good idea as external drives are slow and can potential corupt data. I would always advise keeping at least the jobs your working on on an internal drive. You can have multiple storage locations some on external (I do this only for demo porposes)
You are right that archiving is the way to move a project from one Jetstream storage location to another. you would normally have set an archive location in your REg360 settings. I would then archive the project and move it either over a natwork or external drive and import it in to the second reg360 Jetstream starage loaction.
I will hazzard a guess that the reason it took so long is that your in eccense copying from the the same drive to the same drive. which will always take a long time.
Reg360 is working in Jetstream so just moving a folder from one place to another wont work as the Database system doesn't work like that.
When you installed Reg360 you would have pointed to the external drive as your project Storage location which is never a good idea as external drives are slow and can potential corupt data. I would always advise keeping at least the jobs your working on on an internal drive. You can have multiple storage locations some on external (I do this only for demo porposes)
You are right that archiving is the way to move a project from one Jetstream storage location to another. you would normally have set an archive location in your REg360 settings. I would then archive the project and move it either over a natwork or external drive and import it in to the second reg360 Jetstream starage loaction.
I will hazzard a guess that the reason it took so long is that your in eccense copying from the the same drive to the same drive. which will always take a long time.
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Re: "Moving" a Register360 Project
Thanks Steve - you’ve answered my fear. That effectively renders Register360 a pretty inefficient solution for non-Jetstream users who move data about - I appreciate that’s the point of JS though but even so, it does seem pretty limiting
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Re: "Moving" a Register360 Project
We are doing this all the time and it is SLOW, which is why we are speeding adaptation of a NAS with a 1GB pipeline to our workstations.formbysurveys wrote: ↑Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:38 pm Can anyone shed any light on how to "move" a Register360 project to another PC. I have the project stored on an external HDD and set the storage path on the new PC to reflect the HDD containing the project but the project doesn't appear in the OPEN dialogue.
I'm going to experiment with archiving and importing but this (assuming it works) would be a pretty time consuming process to simply move the project to another PC.
Any thoughts?
We are opening and running small projects from a HDD, but probably an external SSD would be better and internal SSD even better.
There are all kinds of Storage locations you designate in Register 360 and if you haven't designated that HDD as a storage location in the computer you are moving to it won't "SEE" it. Once you plug the HDD in and designate the Drive and folder where your Register 360 fiels are then it should "see". The hard part is making sure you get the right file folder full of data since it has encrypted names. One of the ways we found we can double check is with the folder that has the Cubeface photos in and look at the photos to recognize the project
(i.e. X:\REGISTER 360 WORKING\5a744817-d3d9-4116-8e0b-a3f6991950ac\SetupsFolder )
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Re: "Moving" a Register360 Project
Maybe you guys have already figured this out as this is a pretty old post, but here's the steps I follow to do it without archiving:
1. Locate "Default Storage" folder on Machine 1 by opening Reg360 and reviewing your "Default Storage" path.
2. In Windows Explorer, navigate to the "Default Storage" folder. All the projects have a GUID, but let's call this project folder, Project 1.
3. Copy Project 1 to an external hard drive.
4. Locate "Default Storage" folder same way as above on Machine 2, and copy Project 1 here.
5. In Reg360 on Machine 2, create a new project. This will create a new project folder in the "Default Storage" path on Machine 2. Let's call this project folder, Project 2. Close Reg360.
6. In Windows Explorer, open Project 1 and Project 2 folders and tile them side by side.
7. Copy and overwrite all contents from Project 1 folder into Project 2.
8. You will have two unique database files, titled something like: project_version_1642475312000.db.
9. MOVE the Project 2 .db file to Project 1, leaving the Project 2 .db file in the Project 1 folder.
10. Rename the Project 1 .db file the name of the MOVED Project 2 .db file.
11. Open Reg360 and open your project. It will take a minute for the project to open, but it will all be in there.
I've done it a couple times now and it works great. If I missed a step or something doesn't work for you, holler and I can help out.
1. Locate "Default Storage" folder on Machine 1 by opening Reg360 and reviewing your "Default Storage" path.
2. In Windows Explorer, navigate to the "Default Storage" folder. All the projects have a GUID, but let's call this project folder, Project 1.
3. Copy Project 1 to an external hard drive.
4. Locate "Default Storage" folder same way as above on Machine 2, and copy Project 1 here.
5. In Reg360 on Machine 2, create a new project. This will create a new project folder in the "Default Storage" path on Machine 2. Let's call this project folder, Project 2. Close Reg360.
6. In Windows Explorer, open Project 1 and Project 2 folders and tile them side by side.
7. Copy and overwrite all contents from Project 1 folder into Project 2.
8. You will have two unique database files, titled something like: project_version_1642475312000.db.
9. MOVE the Project 2 .db file to Project 1, leaving the Project 2 .db file in the Project 1 folder.
10. Rename the Project 1 .db file the name of the MOVED Project 2 .db file.
11. Open Reg360 and open your project. It will take a minute for the project to open, but it will all be in there.
I've done it a couple times now and it works great. If I missed a step or something doesn't work for you, holler and I can help out.
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Re: "Moving" a Register360 Project
Well, yes this seems like a solution, we just keep every projects in its own serverdb then we can just copy over the serverdb. Project data is stored on a NAS, so the project files stays on the same place all the time...
But i recon your solution will fail, if you delete a version... as soon as you delete a version i think you will loose all the setups from the setup folder, because there is no data about the setups in the server db. So you should try this on a test project.
viewtopic.php?p=93300&hilit=Project+mobility#p93300
But i recon your solution will fail, if you delete a version... as soon as you delete a version i think you will loose all the setups from the setup folder, because there is no data about the setups in the server db. So you should try this on a test project.
viewtopic.php?p=93300&hilit=Project+mobility#p93300