[FRIAM] Setting up a new PC

[Nick Thompson]

Thanks, Barry,

 

This is very helpful.  

 

Are there any programs that help you move the right stuff, or shall I just restore the back up to the new computer and trust that my back up software knows what it is doing. 

 

Nick 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2019 10:48 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Setting up a new PC

 

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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