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Originally Posted by quoddle
It may well be but it's a hell of a lot of work to do a fresh install then having to reinstall all the many programs I have and possibly many of their settings and passwords etc. As it's only Calibre 6 that doesn't work it's not worth that time committent.
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I recently (December) had to buy a new laptop. The hard drive in the old laptop was still perfectly working. I bought a hard drive USB cable that supported USB-A and USB-C. So I can easily plug it into the new laptop when I want to. I was able to pull off the settings that live in my profile. It did not take long to get what I wanted up and running. And I did not install the programs I wasn't using. I may someday if I decide I want to use any of them.
Yes it can be a pain to do this, but it's not as difficult as you think. But you do need to make a backup first so you can access any data you want to extract to the clean system.