EDX Software Migration Guide

This guide will help you navigate migrating EDX software, projects, and all associated data from one computer to another.

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 the following:

How many users use the software? Do they share the same login, or do they each have their own?

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.

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.)?

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.

Have you made changes under the File>Preferences menu?

Is there either local or network/remote access to both the old and new computer?

Data paths are stored in each individual project, and as such, depending on who created the project, these paths may not be the same.

Example 1 – single user/single login setup

In this example, we’ll assume only one user, and that person is the owner/administrator of the computers.

The default installation is as follows:

Projects in C:\Users\Documents\EDX\Projects\
Software, help, equipment/pat/cpt, sample data files in C:\Program Files\EDX\SignalPro\
Project Templates, edx.ini, cirrus licensing, bing key, etc., in C:\ProgramData\EDX\

Let’s assume the engineer has been placing their data files in either \Program Files\EDX or the \Documents\EDX folder. To migrate the software:

Install EDX software on the new computer and ensure program launches.
Copy the \EDX folder from the \Documents folder on the old computer to the \Documents folder on the new computer, replacing the new \EDX folder created during the install.
Copy the \ProgramData\EDX folder from the old computer to the new computer, replacing the \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.

Example 2 – multi-user/multi login setup

In this example, we’ll assume there are multiple user accounts on the computer. The default installation is as follows:

Projects in C:\Users\Documents\EDX\Projects\
Software, help, equipment/pat/cpt, sample data files in C:\Program Files\EDX\SignalPro\
Project Templates, edx.ini, cirrus licensing, bing key, etc., in C:\ProgramData\EDX\

This is where the migration may get more complicated, and it all depends on where each user is storing their terrain/clutter/other data and projects. To migrate the software and assuming each user is storing everything for the project in their Documents directory:

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.

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 of the relevant files to the same folder location on the new computer.