Re: [NTLK] is there a way to move the folders from one newt toanother?

From: Dan (dan_at_dbdigitalweb.com)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 01:58:14 EDT


-----Original Message-----
From: Laurent Daudelin <nemesys_at_cox.net>
To: NewtonTalk <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
Date: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] is there a way to move the folders from one newt
toanother?

>
>on 03/07/02 18:33, Dan at dan_at_dbdigitalweb.com wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> I was wondering if there is a way to move all the folder info to another
>> newt. I am "moving in" to a 2100 and while I can do it manually that is
>> anoying at times. I know that the info is stored in the system soup (and
I
>> think user defs is the slot name, have to look to be sure though).
Anyway
>> to move just the slot over? Or better yet some little utility that can
do
>> it easier?
>
>There is no utility that I'm aware of to move folders from a store to
>another store, or Newton. You could try to move the system soup entry from
>the internal of your Newton to an external card, but I'm not sure it will
>work, since you can, I think, move entries only from one soup to another
>soup. AFAIK, there is no system soup entries on a card, so I don't think
you
>would be able to find a system soup on an external RAM card.
>
>What you could do would be to backup the system soup with NCU and then
>restore on the destination Newton.
>
>-Laurent.

Yes I thought of that, but won't that cause problems when restoring a back
up from a 130 on a 2100? (I would assume so).

-Dan

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