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General Category => General Computing/Macintosh => Topic started by: WeatherguyNH on August 15, 2019, 11:58:47 AM

Title: Moving to a new Mac
Post by: WeatherguyNH on August 15, 2019, 11:58:47 AM

Hi Weathercat fans:

I am hoping someone else has faced this......

I need to retire my 10 year old Mac Pro....just bought a new iMac, still in the box. Running Mojave.
I DO NOT want to use migration assistant to bring all of my applications over, since there is a lot of crap in the old Mac accumulated over 10 years of use.
I'd like to start fresh.
I realize that I can just download and install Weathercat on the new Mac, but how do I bring over all of the data the application has collected over the past?
Is all of that in a single folder somewhere?
Also, I remember there was a driver I needed to install to get the Mac to read data from my Davis Weather Logger. Is that still required?

I appreciate any help and advice...

Thanks

Rich

Title: Re: Moving to a new Mac
Post by: xairbusdriver on August 15, 2019, 03:17:53 PM

This should help: wiki.trixology.com (http://wiki.trixology.com/index.php?title=Moving_a_WeatherCat_installation_from_one_computer_to_another) title=Moving_a_WeatherCat_installation_from_one_computer_to_another

Title: Re: Moving to a new Mac
Post by: WeatherguyNH on August 16, 2019, 02:26:28 AM

My gosh!

That is perfect...

Thank you!!!

Title: Re: Moving to a new Mac
Post by: Blicj11 on August 21, 2019, 03:42:06 PM

WeatherguyNH:

Let us know how your experience went following the Wiki article. Does anything there need to be clarified or changed? It was perfect the last time I had to use it but something may have changed.

Congrats on your new kit. Nothing like the thrill of a new iMac after all those years.

Title: Re: Moving to a new Mac
Post by: WeatherguyNH on August 23, 2019, 02:37:01 AM

Will do.
It sits in a box on the floor of my office.
I will be cracking the seal this weekend with a SLOW beginning, since I won't be using migration assistant. I don't want to bring 10 years of crap over....starting fresh...we'll see how that goes.

Thank you again for the help.

Rich

Title: Re: Moving to a new Mac
Post by: JosBaz on July 19, 2021, 03:44:47 PM

Just a short note to say the Wiki page was of great help when moving my setup (temporarily) to another computer.

I did however copy two additional folders that were not mentioned on the Wiki, i.e.;

~/Library/Application Support/WeatherCatUpdate
~/Documents/WeatherCatNOAAReports

Jos

Title: Re: Moving to a new Mac
Post by: Blicj11 on July 20, 2021, 01:09:21 AM

Thanks for letting us know about the missing folders. They are are now included in the wiki.

Are you impacted by the flooding in the Netherlands?

Title: Re: Moving to a new Mac
Post by: Weatheraardvark on July 20, 2021, 02:58:54 AM

You could do one final backup, then transfer over the data file and restore from the backup you just did.

Title: Re: Moving to a new Mac
Post by: JosBaz on July 20, 2021, 11:14:32 AM

Quote from: Blicj11 on July 20, 2021, 01:09:21 AM

Thanks for letting us know about the missing folders. They are are now included in the wiki.

Are you impacted by the flooding in the Netherlands?

Thanks Blick, for updating the Wiki.

No, I wasn't impacted by the flooding; 'only' 44mm of rain in 24hrs, versus >200mm (close to 8 inch) in the hills about 100km south of where I live. In Germany more than a 100 people lost their lives.  :'(