Reinstalling Retrospect 8

[James Mulryan]

Hi

I just put a new hard drive in my Mac Pro after backing the original up on another drive using carbon copy.

Can I drag my old retrospect application files and retrospect engine onto the new hard drive or would it be better to do a reinstall from a new download.

All data files have already been transferred onto my new drive.

[Maser]

You could drag the application folder, but you should reinstall the engine.

 

And move your "config80.dat" file to /Library/application support/retrospect from the backup.

 

(Stop the engine after you install it, delete the "config80.dat" and "config80.bak" files that may be created, and replace with your backup "config80.dat" file and restart the engine...)

 

 

[rhwalker]

See page 238 ("Moving Retrospect") of the Retrospect 8 Users Guide

 

Russ

[James Mulryan]

Thanks for all the help

[James Mulryan]

Going through manual, how do you stop the retrospect engine. I go to my preferences panel and can not find the screen that turns the engine off.

[maxhowarth]

system preferences>click on the retrospect pane

 

now click on the padlock, enter your account password then click on stop retrospect engine.

 

page 243 of the user's guide.

[James Mulryan]

All is well. Thank you so much for the help. This forum is great.