Hello Folks:
Sorry about the crossposts, I'm new to XP. Let me know where
I should take problems like this.
I've just purchased a new PC, running XP, and want to move my
account's 15 Gig files from the old XP machine.
I'm having trouble with the File and Settings Transfer Wizard.
The two machines are on a home network.
My first attempt to move all of my account's files failed.
A perusal of the net suggested that the two machines might have
incompatible versions of the transfer wizard. The instructions
said to make a use a copy of the same wizard on each machine,
but I thought that was for machines that might not have their own
copy of the utility. For some reason I thought two XP machines
might have compatible versions.
I can't create a wizard disk anyway, neither machine has a
floppy drive and the combo control to select a drive to write
the wizard doesn't mention either machine's CD burner.
So I downloaded the latest from microsoft and put that on each
machine.
I took several hours the first time, just to see it fail, so
as I type this I've told the wizard to transfer files only. I
hope that will be faster.
For the test I want to speed things up with a smaller set
of sources. So I select a directory that contains a VS 2008
solution, with several projects, This is about a Gig and a
half, not small but a tenth of the job the utility will do
when it moves all of my account. And it's a good sample of
the type of files I want moved. So I delete all of the
directories in the transfer utility's default list and
identify the one I want.
This directory has some VS 2008 C++ projects, and I noticed
that the list of file types to copy didn't include several types
I see in the projects, so I deleted all of the default types and
entered *.* for the type. I hope the utility will figure out
that all file types are to be transfered.
Then I start it.
The wizard starts examining files from all over the machine!
I told it I want just one directory transfered, why is it looking
at directories I have no interest in?
Right now the message has gone from "Examining" to "Compressing",
file that are not in the selected directory.
With hours left to go, I can't help but wounder if I'm doing
something wrong.
And the big question, will the utility, when run from the
destination machine, even see that the old machine's gathered
files are correct?
Oh, great, now it's doing a compression of my Solaris DVD
images, which happen to not be in the directory I asked to be
transfered. That's a good use of my time.
Remember that Windows add slogan? I think it went "What
does Bill Gates want to do with your computer today?". Or
maybe that wasn't quite right.
Sorry, I'd like to know if there is a better method to
do what I want to do. And I'm venting a little bit too.
Thanks
Larry
