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Best way to move files to a new computer

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:21:51 GMT

Just installed inventor on a new laptop and I need to move all my project folders to the new computer.

Whats the best way to do this so that nothing breaks? Can I just copy and paste the top level folder that houses all the project folders and hope everything works?

Re: Best way to move files to a new computer

pball — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:27:01 GMT

It should be as simple as copy and pasting. You'll just want to make sure your projects do not reference anything outside of that folder, if they do you'll want to copy that also.

Templates, style libraries, content center files, and such might be a few things to double check. If you have both computers at the moment it might be good to compare application options between the two also. If it's the same version of Inventor you can export and import both application and customization options.

Re: Best way to move files to a new computer

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:29:05 GMT

Thanks I'll give it a go

Re: Best way to move files to a new computer

Curtis_W — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:50:10 GMT

richardP3ZRB,

Also, don't forget your Default Content Center Files folder.

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-82D5ADF7-7D5A-4C71-AC55-D19AA31ABC37

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

Re: Best way to move files to a new computer

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:44:23 GMT

So everything transferred with the exception of my iparts. When opening the assemblies that i have i assemlbies or ifactories, the error message comes up and says that the database could not be opened.

Any ideas?

Thnaks

Re: Best way to move files to a new computer

Curtis_W — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:50:02 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

So everything transferred with the exception of my iparts. When opening the assemblies that i have i assemlbies or ifactories, the error message comes up and says that the database could not be opened.

Any ideas?

Thnaks

Hi richardP3ZRB,

Do you have MS Excel on this new computer? Inventor used Excel for iParts , so that might be it?

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com