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Old 12-10-2020, 02:52 PM   #1
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I am moving my Micro$oft Windowz life over to a new PC.

My Old PC was 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate edition
My new PC is a fresh clean install copy of 64-bit Windows 10 Professional edition

My old PC has Calibre installed... what is the easiest way to migrate my Calibre settings to the new PC?

Can I backup/Restore some directory/file that contains the Calibre settings?
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Old 12-10-2020, 03:04 PM   #2
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To export everything in calibre - library and settings: click the "Library" button->Export/import all calibre data

It should let you export everything to, say, a thumb drive. Then, when calibre is installed on your new PC, go to the same menu item and import everything.
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Old 12-10-2020, 03:23 PM   #3
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I am moving my Micro$oft Windowz life over to a new PC.

My Old PC was 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate edition
My new PC is a fresh clean install copy of 64-bit Windows 10 Professional edition

My old PC has Calibre installed... what is the easiest way to migrate my Calibre settings to the new PC?

Can I backup/Restore some directory/file that contains the Calibre settings?
Network the two computers. Then just copy the contents of the configuration directory to the new computer. Also the same thing with all your library directories. No need to export/import and doing it networked is a lot easier.
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What about any Calibre program settings itself... like the various menu bars and everything setup from the main menu option for "Preferences"?

What about saved "bulk-edit" search templates?

What about plug-ins?

What about _settings_ for the plug-ins?
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Old 12-10-2020, 04:11 PM   #5
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Network the two computers. Then just copy the contents of the configuration directory to the new computer. Also the same thing with all your library directories. No need to export/import and doing it networked is a lot easier.
Yes doing it by network copy is the easiest and most pain free way to do so. The hardest part will be convincing Windows that yes I want to network these PC.


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What about any Calibre program settings itself... like the various menu bars and everything setup from the main menu option for "Preferences"?

What about saved "bulk-edit" search templates?

What about plug-ins?

What about _settings_ for the plug-ins?
They will be included if you use import/export.

If you want to just copy the folders over, settings are in the configuration folder. It's usually in User/AppData/Roaming. Just copy the entire folder named "calibre" and paste to the same location on your new PC.
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What about any Calibre program settings itself... like the various menu bars and everything setup from the main menu option for "Preferences"?

What about saved "bulk-edit" search templates?

What about plug-ins?

What about _settings_ for the plug-ins?
Those will be in the caliber config folder.
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Old 12-10-2020, 04:14 PM   #8
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What about any Calibre program settings itself... like the various menu bars and everything setup from the main menu option for "Preferences"?

What about saved "bulk-edit" search templates?

What about plug-ins?

What about _settings_ for the plug-ins?
The built in export/import option suggested by Section8 in post #2 takes care of all that.

See ==>> How do I move my calibre data from one computer to another?

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<daydream#1-of-simple-life>
Old PC = Click "preferences" -> click "export settings" -> wait for things to export
New PC = Click "prefences" --> click "import settings" -> wait for things to import
...plugins redownloaded (or last version binaries included in export)
...etc etc et al everything between the orbit of the Sun and the orbit of Pluto (will always be a planet to me)
...nicely packaged in a tar.gz/zip compressed file
</daydream#1-of-simple-life>

<daydream#2-of-an-even-way-simple-life>
(picture the voice of that guy from the movie trailers)
"imagine a world where:
...calibre was a containerized portable package file
...or maybe a self contained virtualized app (where you could take your own 'snapshot' before you muck everything up with a 'great idea')
...Where you copied one/two/three files to you usb drive when you wanted to move your entire calibre experience with you"
</daydream#2-of-an-even-way-simple-life>

I did that once. I used Cameyo to virtualize the app in a container. It worked super duper schmancy-fancy! Then there was a Calibre update.
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Yes doing it by network copy is the easiest and most pain free way to do so. The hardest part will be convincing Windows that yes I want to network these PC.


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I use Dropbox myself. Have a copy of the configuration folder saved there. And as I always install Dropbox on every computer I own, it's pretty hassle free.

Occasionally I've used network to copy stuff over, but not often. And as I have Windows Pro on most of my laptops now, Remote Desktop is an easy way to transfer stuff too.
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Or just do a restore from the daily (or at worst weekly) backup you take of your PC
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Or just do a restore from the daily (or at worst weekly) backup you take of your PC
I don't make any backups of my PCs. All my important stuff is in Dropbox and that's all the backup I generally need. I also have backups of my files on external drives, but they get updated once a month or so.
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<daydream#2-of-an-even-way-simple-life>
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"imagine a world where:
...calibre was a containerized portable package file
...or maybe a self contained virtualized app (where you could take your own 'snapshot' before you muck everything up with a 'great idea')
...Where you copied one/two/three files to you usb drive when you wanted to move your entire calibre experience with you"
</daydream#2-of-an-even-way-simple-life>
This already exists. It's called 'Calibre Portable'. A single directory to copy and you're done.
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