Thursday, 05. December 2002

trying to move this blog to my new computer

I'm breathing a big sigh of relief - I think that I just managed to avoid erasing everything I'd done on this blog in the last 2 months. Well I guess that's something positive to be said for my mistakes in the past - I'm now more cautious and managed to avoid something quite unpleasant.

On the other hand, although I was able to save this blog, I wasn't successful in moving it to my new iMac. And I'm giving up for the time being. I'm a bit annoyed at Radio Userland and its documentation. Moving a blog to a different computer isn't such a strange thing to do. Why can't there be some clear, step-by-step instructions to do this for the OS X version? Suggestions, anyone? [explodedlibrary.info]

The problem is the fact that Radio uses hardcodes paths and volume names to find it's files. I see no reason why this sould be good engeneering.

Basically there are two ways to move Radio to a new machine:
1. ensure that the volume, the folder and all parent folders of your Radio installation are named the same on the new machine.
2. Use a tool to rename the internal paths in Radio. This tool is out there, but I forgot where to find it.
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