Transferring Data Between PCs

Thru your network, if you have them network connected together. Or copy onto a USB 3 (or 2) external hard drive, then copy from there onto your other PC. I copy all of the Trainz directory, rather than just the data folders "local" & "original"

I recently had a 5 year old Segate 3TB internal HDD fail completely. Luckily I had the TANE SP3 beta, (550 gigs, approx) backed up on both and external USB 3 drive & my NAS. I brought and installed a new 3Tb internal HDD. It took me less than half a day to copy the backup copies of Tane SP3 beta (& TS2012) onto my new internal HDD.

I backup most of my Trainz installs onto a USB 3 external hard disk drive & my NAS. (It the Irish in me, to be sure, to be sure)... :hehe:

Cheers, Mac.
 
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ArmoredMonster said:
How do you network them together?
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Without knowing whether you want to connect them wirelessly, or via an ethernet cable it hard for me to give you some instructions. - Do a Google search on "How to connect two computers". That should bring up several tutorials. Eg; - https://www.wikihow.com/Connect-Two-Computers -

Alternatively, just copy the whole Trainz directory across using an external USB 3 (or 2) Hard Disk Drive. By using this method, it's gives you a complete backup copy of your Trainz install.

If you want to run Trainz on the new computer you have just copied too, check first that your user name and password is entered on the new copy after you have clicked on it's Tane.exe too start... (Your user name & password unfortunately doesn't get copied across automatically, so you need to re-enter them on the copied new install).

Cheers, Mac.
 
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meatloaf747 said:
Without knowing whether you want to connect them wirelessly, or via an ethernet cable it hard for me to give you some instructions. - Do a Google search on "How to connect two computers". That should bring up several tutorials. Eg; - https://www.wikihow.com/Connect-Two-Computers -

Alternatively, just copy the whole Trainz directory across using an external USB 3 (or 2) Hard Disk Drive. By using this method, it's gives you a complete backup copy of your Trainz install.

If you want to run Trainz on the new computer you have just copied too, check first that your user name and password is entered on the new copy after you have clicked on it's Tane.exe too start... (Your user name & password unfortunately doesn't get copied across automatically, so you need to re-enter them on the copied new install).

Cheers, Mac.
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How about uploading all files to Media Fire Google Drive or a cloud based web sharing site? Would that work too?
 
ArmoredMonster said:
How about uploading all files to Media Fire Google Drive or a cloud based web sharing site? Would that work too?
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Yes but uploading gigs of information normally takes a lot longer than downloading it.

If they are two windows machines create an account with the same password in each. When you log on go to network and if you're lucky you'll see the other machine. That way you'll be able to copy the files fairly quickly.

If you use 7-zip from 7-zip.org that will compress the data to be move and more importantly will add a check digit so you can be sure the files and folders are complete.

Cheerio John
 
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