PC upgrade - a diary

[Drew Stephenson]

Fortunately I'm a very recent adopter so I don't have much from NI - but my user experience to date hasn't been exactly thrilling.
It's much the same with Waves actually...
I'll be picking that lot up tomorrow. I have warned the better half to expect much swearing.

[MOF]

Fortunately I'm a very recent adopter so I don't have much from NI - but my user experience to date hasn't been exactly thrilling.

NI used to be dreadful but now their Native Access has made it a much simpler affair. I presume it’s the same on Windows as I’m a Mac user. I’ll get my coat then, (Fast Show reference).

[Martin Walker]

Well, after about three hours last night we're roughly halfway through.

Only six hours for this mammoth transfer?

Wow!!!!!!!

Martin

[Drew Stephenson]

I've not done any content transfer yet! This is just programmes and licenses.

Anyway, it's all clearer than trying to make sense of Amazon's new music downloader/malware thing. I have sworn at that a lot tonight.

[2pods]

Keep at it.

I've finally got mine finished. Now to back it up.

[Drew Stephenson]

Jam Origin sorted, another speedy response from them.
Native instruments now.
Ho hum.
The instructions say to go to the 'Manage Devices' page and deactivate on the old machine etc. etc.
Except those instructions are for pre-Native Access installations.
So I've downloaded Native Access on the new machine and got both machines running and NA open. I'm just trying a straight install in the hope that it will prompt me for some kind of activate/deactivate instructions.

[Drew Stephenson]

Ah. Ahem.
I apologise sincerely to Native Instruments and in the future I shall make sure I am reading the correct line on the spreadsheet.

[Drew Stephenson]

Hmmm. I appear to be running into a problem with Spitfire not wanting me to put the sample libraries where I want to put them.
Uninstalling and starting again on this one.

[Drew Stephenson]

Well, I may have been halfway through the list in three hours, but the other half took ten hours yesterday.
Still, it did give me plenty of time to sit and play guitar along to my new CDs whilst things downloaded and uploaded and validated and made a quick return journey to Mars etc.

Now to work through everything on the new machine and catch any downloads I've missed.

[Drew Stephenson]

Having some fun with Izotope. Trying to authorize there is a tickbox for 'Use iLok authorisation', that being what I use I have ticked it.
Which then gives me an error message "Your serial number for does (sic) not support iLok authorisation or is already authorised with an iLok. Please use the Challenge/Response method of contact Technical Support for assistance."

Well, I'm sure that whoever wrote that knew what the Challenge/Response method is but I'm bolloxed if I can see anything with that kind of wording anywhere on the either the plugin, the izotope webpage or on the ilok page.

Turns out unticking the 'Use iLok authorisation' is the way to authorise it with iLok.

[Drew Stephenson]

Ok, add about three hours on today and I think we're done.
Including all my awkward control surface set-ups with Reaper. I was expecting this to be harder work but by having a OneDrive folder open on both machines I was able to pick up all the set-up files and templates and just drag them up and down one folder at a time and it all seems to have worked.
I mean, it should work like that, but I'm always a bit surprised that it does.
I have just identified one awkward little fly in the works though. My new computer doesn't have a card-reader - so I'm not quite sure how I'm going to get stuff off the ROdecaster for work, but hopefully it will just work as remote drive when it's not being an AI?
I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
Aside from that I think we're there.
Now I just need to back up all my files on the old machine and then work out which ones to archive and which ones to move to the new machine.

But for this thread, I think I'll leave it there unless I run into any further hitches.

[RichardT]

Congratulations on a successful move! I hope your new machine lasts as long as the old. There’s no reason why not these days.