Changing Hard Drives
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My tale of woe started last week when I was going to upgrade my 7 1/2 year old GPU so SU-8 would display properly as my old GPU could only goto OpenGL-1.3, where SU-8 needs OpenGL 1.5. I also had to upgrade my 350W PS to 700W for the new card.
To make a long story short (who me???) I killed my old CPU somehow.
My brother-in-law gave me his old PC with a much newer/better MB, GPU and PS. It also has a bigger IDE drive. My old IDE drive will NOT boot in the "new" PC as the O/S is a different version. Old is XP-H2 and the new is XP-Pro3. Putting my HD in as a slave moved all of my partitions up a drive or 2 and nothing would run. So, before I can delete all my B-in-L's stuff which I copied to an Ext USB HD for him to recover some critical files, I only have room to setup a few critical apps, SU8, Firefox, Thunderbird and a very few others. FF was already on the new PC and just needs tweaking to get it almost normal for me, but work has to be done. Oh, BTW, I tried the Microsoft procedure to "Replace Motherboard" and just ended up with repetitive BSOD's caused by driver errors, so I gave up on that. 
For SU8, I duplicated its directory path on the old HD onto the new, then copied all of the SU8 files over.
SU8 came up, but none of my toolbar positions, preferences, shortcuts or file locations came up. I spent a few hours getting it back to almost normal, thank you to whomever wrote the "List Shortcuts" RB and me for printing the list a week before the disaster.
Anyway, SU8 is operating almost normal now. BUT I am going to upgrade my boot drive to a SATA drive soon and xfer all my stuff over to it, and dispense with the IDE drive. I loathe having to manually reset SU again, so my questions are.....(finally)...
Is there a way to move SU intact to another drive?
What directories/files need to be moved/copied that are not in the main SU directory?
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Is this the only computer you ever use SketchUp on?
I ask because I've been using Dropbox ( http://db.tt/j2IZMoG - if you download it via that link it gives me a bit of extra space as a referral. I think they start you with like 2gb) to good effect for awhile now. I'm not sure it would solve all of your issues but it provides a good way to essentially be able to sync and backup certain folders. I have all of my important folders on there (Exporters, importers, materials, plugins, resources, and tools as well as a backup Shortcuts.dat file). It allows me to sync those folders between computers (when I download a ruby it automagically syncs to my other computers) and provides a nice backup (the files are stored both on your PC and on Dropbox's online server so if my PC eats it I can easily install SU on a new computer and resync those important folders.
Let me know if that would be of interest to you and I can provide some more "how to" type info.
-Brodie
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Thanks, but I don't think that is of any use to me. I only use SU on the 1 PC. The problem is transferring my old comfortable SU setup from my old HD to the new HD, both of which are mounted in the new(er) PC. The old HD is a slave, and cannot boot any PC after WinXP destroyed the boot sector.
I got SU almost normal, but a few items elude me, such as where certain files (Pref. Files) are... particularly Styles, Textures, Watermarks and Export. The old drive ID's are all skewed, and now these entries point to the wrong directories.
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SketchUp keeps almost all relevant things (plugins, components, styles) in the main SketchUp directory. The only problem is with things that are saved in the registry. In the preferences, there is a button to export some preferences (files, shortcuts). If you are sure that you wouldn't mess everything up when dealing with the registry, you can open the registry and export the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp8which should preserve all settings.@jgb said:
cannot boot any PC after WinXP destroyed the boot sector
It doesn't boot the Windows XP CD (repair cd)? If the boot sector is not physically destroyed, there could have been a chance to try to type the word "fixmbr" into the recovery console.
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@aerilius said:
@jgb said:
cannot boot any PC after WinXP destroyed the boot sector
It doesn't boot the Windows XP CD (repair cd)? If the boot sector is not physically destroyed, there could have been a chance to try to type the word "fixmbr" into the recovery console.
I was following the MS procedure to "Replace Motherboard" when I got BSOD as WinXP was finishing the "repair".
Then I fixed that BSOD, but WinXP continued to get BSOD every reboot for various driver issues, until I gave up.
It will now NOT allow me to reinstall as it always wants to complete the repair, which it can't.
The "new" HD has Win-XP Pro on it and I am clearing it out of the old users non-essential stuff then I will start pulling my old stuff over to it. I suspect I will have to re-install most of it, and other issues are delaying me or just making life miserable.... but the new PC runs like stink.
Except I am a bit disappointed with the NVIDIA GPU.
My old 256mb ATI card of 7 years ago produced a much crisper image in SU than the newer 500mb NVIDIA, even at max resolution and with the best setting for anti-alias. But I can live with it. 
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