Migration Utility Copy Merge Options

[browndan]

I am migrating from ACADE 2010 to 2012.  In the migration utility there is an option of either copy or merge.  What is the difference between the two.  I read the help file discriptions of the merge/copy options but could not understand the difference between the two.

[PatMurnen_Adsk · Accepted solution]

The Copy option is pretty simple, the selected files from the release you are merging are copied into the current release. If you check the Overwrite option then existing fiels are overwritten. If you do not check the Overwrite option then the only files copied are ones that do not exist in the current release.

The merge option has more sub-options depending on the file and is only available for certain files, a couple of examples are menus or catalog lookup. So instead of copying the entire file over, the merge tells it to merge the contents in the old version with the new version. That way you keep any changes you made but you don't lose the new additions AcadE made. The sub-options let you control this with overwrite options, again inot checking the Overwrite options means it only brings over entries that do not exist in the newer version. So say you added a bunch of catalog entries and modified others. Merge without overwrite will bring the additions over but leave all existing catalog entries in the newer version alone (not bring over the modified ones). Merge with Overwrite brings over all the records in the older version. Any entries in the newer version that do not exist in the older version remain unchanged.

Hope this helps,

[browndan]

Thank you.  That defines it very clearly.

[PatMurnen_Adsk]

I will make a note to update this on the wiki help to make this more clear. Or feel free to jump in on the wiki help and update this page to make it clear for other users.

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/AutoCAD_Electrical/enu/2012/Help/0237-Migratio237/0238-Migratio238

The nice thing about the wiki is that it can be udpated at any time where the Help in the product is only updated with a release.

Thanks,

Pat