[FRIAM] Setting up a new PC

[Barry MacKichan]

The last time I had to do this, I tried the following, and it worked 
moderately well.

For any software that costs me money, I put the software 
license/serial/unlock code in my password manager (1Password).
It helps also to try to make a list of the open-source software I’m 
using.

The new computer has the basic system and apps installed.

I download new copies of the bought software and unlock with the info in 
1Password. I pass over software I no longer use.
I reinstall the open-source software I know I will use.

I copy data that I know I need (mail archive, some program  settings, 
etc.)

I leave the rest on the backup disk, which I keep for the life of the 
new computer, and recover stuff from it on an as-needed basis.

I have a multidisk backup where I put archival files that I won’t be 
using actively.



--Barry

On 8 Nov 2019, at 15:20, Nick Thompson wrote:

> Kindly FRIAMers,
>
>
>
> Do you have any advice to give, or a website to suggest, that will 
> help me
> decide how to set up the computer I just bought.  I back up the old 
> computer
> to a hard drive every night, and I had always thought to transfer the 
> data
> to the new one by restoring the backup file to the new computer. But I
> assume there is a LOT of crap in there I don't want.  SOMEBODY must 
> have
> thought about this issue and written something avuncular for people 
> like me.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks, as always,
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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