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

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.net)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 03:06:13 EDT

on 04/07/02 01:58, Dan at dan_at_dbdigitalweb.com wrote:

> -----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).

Yep, that's the downsize. You will end up with all the crap that is stored
in your 130 onto your 2100, and you may introduce some incompatibilities as
well. There's really no easy way to do this. However, what you could do
after restoring, your 2100 having to be restarted, you can try to disable
the packages from launching. Then, you could manually launch SBM Utilities
to remove unneeded or undesirable entries from the system soup. You have to
remember that by doing that, you'll loose everything you have in your system
soup now on your 2100...

-Laurent. 

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