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Transferring Accordance to another Mac


Peter Smythe

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I am having to switch from one old Mac to another. Do I need to do a total reinstall of Accordance (with all the numbers)? I tried copying onto the new Mac, but my Workspace doesn't open.

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Here are our standard instructions for copying Accordance. You should not need to reinstall it.

 

If you have everything running on the old Mac, and can either link them both by ethernet or firewire, or have an external drive you can hook up to either one, it is easiest to copy over the old Accordance and then update it.

Copy the entire Accordance folder to the new Mac.

Also if you are on OS X copy:

user/Library/Preferences/Accordance Preferences folder

user/Documents/Accordance Files

to the same locations on the new Mac (it is good to backup these two folders from time to time)

Then download and run the latest installer for Accordance.

If you have problems with this, please contact technical support.

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I made the transition from my old Mac to my new Mac. I don't know what to make of the two folders: one in MacIntosh HD which contains Accordance Files and Accordance folder; the second in MyComputer > Documents> Accordance Files >etc. Here's the question: Should I drag the MyComputer>Documents>Accordance to MacIntosh HD>Accordance folder?

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I made the transition from my old Mac to my new Mac. I don't know what to make of the two folders: one in MacIntosh HD which contains Accordance Files and Accordance folder; the second in MyComputer > Documents> Accordance Files >etc. Here's the question: Should I drag the MyComputer>Documents>Accordance to MacIntosh HD>Accordance folder?

If I understand you correctly, the answer is no.

 

You should put that in your "Documents" folder.

 

 

Here is my assumptions:

You are calling "My Computer" what you see on the left hand section of a newly opened folder.

The actual location is as Helen states above:

HD/Users/<your-user-name-here>/Documents/Accordance Files

 

My guess is that you're also having the same issue with your Accordance Preferences. From your "MyComputer" reference point, select the "Place" with the little House icon, then Library/Preferences/

That's where you should put your "old" mac's "Accordance Preferences" folder.

 

I hope this helps!

 

Mike

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If I understand you correctly, the answer is no.

 

You should put that in your "Documents" folder.

 

 

Here is my assumptions:

You are calling "My Computer" what you see on the left hand section of a newly opened folder.

The actual location is as Helen states above:

HD/Users/<your-user-name-here>/Documents/Accordance Files

 

My guess is that you're also having the same issue with your Accordance Preferences. From your "MyComputer" reference point, select the "Place" with the little House icon, then Library/Preferences/

That's where you should put your "old" mac's "Accordance Preferences" folder.

 

I hope this helps!

 

Mike

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Thank you, Mike, for your reply.

I was not having a problem using Accordance. I was confused in OSX.6 in the FINDER window. It seemed to me that various Accordance files were located in two places. I say that because when I went to look for certain User Tools that I had made I could find them in one location and not the other. Oh well. Just now when I went back to look again everything seems to be integrated.

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Background summary:

Prior to Accordance 7 you could save your User Tools and Notes anywhere you wanted. When you upgraded to 7 all your installed User Tools and Notes were copied or moved to Accordance folder: Modules: Shared User Tools and Shared User Notes. If you then ran Accordance in Classic, these were the modules that Accordance accessed and edited, and the locations to which new user files were saved.

 

However, in OS X, we wanted to move Accordance to (or install to) Applications, and simultaneously to allow non-admin users to use the program. The solution was to create separate files for each user in each user's folders. Each user then starts with his own preferences based on those in the Accordance folder: Accordance Preferences, but located in his user: Library: Preferences. Similarly, each user gets an Accordance Files folder in his (or her) user: Documents and this is where all User Tools and Notes are saved, no matter where they are first opened. Highlights and favorites are also saved there, as well as (by default) saved windows and sessions.

 

Thus the importance of backing up these files from time to time, and of transferring them to the same location on a new Mac. Any User Tools or Notes in the Accordance folder (in OS X) are merely the original versions when upgrading from 6 or earlier, and not the current versions.

 

If anyone needs more detailed help, please let's talk and screenshare off the forum.

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It would be great to have a list of what modules go where.

 

I've got a copy of "Bird

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In general, leave things where you find them, because Accordance and the installers do what they are supposed to. However, if you have really old files left from 5 year old + installers, you may want to ask us aboiut them. Yes, the Gloss folder needs to stay. Bird's Eye Workbook is in fact a user tool, so if you have opened and edited it, a copy has been saved in your user: Documents: Accordance Files. So they copy you see in Accordance folder is in fact a clean one and you can do what you like with it.

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