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The biggest migration issue is moving projects and data. EDX projects require pointing to a large number of files and folder paths outside of the EDX software installation. Database path locations may cause potential problems.
Checklist: Before you move the software/projects/data you need to identify
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the following
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- How many users use the software? Do they share the same login, or do they each have their own?
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This impacts where projects can be located on the computer. |
- Where are the terrain/clutter and other databases located: In the EDX install directory? In the project folder? Another location? These locations need to be the same on both computers.
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You may need to check the path locations within each project to determine where they’re pointing to for the data. |
- In your projects, have you added additional display layers like roads, streets, or other types of GIS data (.shp files, .bna files, KML/KMZ, etc)?
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You’ll need to know the location of these files, and they’ll need to exist in the same location on the new computer. |
- Are you using equipment files, antenna pattern files or channel plan template files? You’ll need to know the project location of each file type.
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The locations need to be the same on both computers. |
- Have you made changes under the File>Preferences menu?
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If so, you’ll need to move the edx.ini file from the old computer to the new to preserve those values. |
- Is there either local or network/remote access to both the old and new computer?
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If one computer is local and the other is remote, network access to the remote computer is required to implement the migration. |
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Create user accounts on the new computer.
Install EDX software on the new computer and ensure program launches.
Copy the \EDX folder from each of the users Documents folder on the old computer, to their Documents folder on the new computer, replacing the new \EDX folder created during the install.
Copy the \ProgramData\EDX folder from the older computer to the new, replacing the \ProgramData\EDX folder created during installation.
Copy any data from the old \Program Files\EDX equipment folder or other folders not present in the new installation.
Please note you may need admin permissions in your computer
Other setups
If your scenario doesn’t match either of the above examples, you’ll need to look at each project and their databases/antenna pattern/other project folder settings and determine the paths to these files and folders. Then, you’ll need to recreate the same files/folder locations on the new computer and copy all the relevant files to the same folder location on the new computer.
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