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Guide for Moving CoH or Installing Test
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Originally Posted by Kahlan_
If I want to transfer coh to a new computer, can I just move the coh folder itself? Or do I have to redownload it?
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Thanks. I don't understand how to apply that to moving from one computer to another though? It seems to only describe moving it on the same computer.
1. Copy the contents of your CoH folder to your other computer. This is done usually via burning to DVD (or many CDs). You can do this via network copying too, if you have that; or even over AIM or similar folder-transfer capable IM service.
1a. The important part is the piggs folder. This is the largest part of City's installation. You can skip copying basically any other folder if you want. Don't skip the actual items inside the installation folder itself (like CityOfHeroes.exe and etc).
2. Delete anything labeled "checksum" or "majorpatch" in the folder you copied.
3. Copy the CohUpdater.exe to your desktop.
4. Run the desktop version of the updater. It'll put some extra files necessary to run the updater on your desktop. Don't delete them yet!
5. Tell it to install into the directory where the copied CoH folder exists (if it's installed into C:\Games\City of Heroes, tell it to install into C:\Games...otherwise if you tell it to install into C:\Games\City of Heroes, it will create C:\Games\City of Heroes\City of Heroes)
6. Let it do its thing. It'll checksum. It'll verify. It'll fix anything that got broke in the copying.
7. Delete the desktop version of the updater and all the crap it generated.
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Don't think of it as moving it to another computer, think of it as moving it to another hard drive.
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Originally Posted by Kahlan_
Thanks. I don't understand how to apply that to moving from one computer to another though? It seems to only describe moving it on the same computer.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
1. Copy the contents of your CoH folder to your other computer. This is done usually via burning to DVD (or many CDs). You can do this via network copying too, if you have that; or even over AIM or similar folder-transfer capable IM service.
1a. The important part is the piggs folder. This is the largest part of City's installation. You can skip copying basically any other folder if you want. Don't skip the actual items inside the installation folder itself (like CityOfHeroes.exe and etc). 2. Delete anything labeled "checksum" or "majorpatch" in the folder you copied. 3. Copy the CohUpdater.exe to your desktop. 4. Run the desktop version of the updater. It'll put some extra files necessary to run the updater on your desktop. Don't delete them yet! 5. Tell it to install into the directory where the copied CoH folder exists (if it's installed into C:\Games\City of Heroes, tell it to install into C:\Games...otherwise if you tell it to install into C:\Games\City of Heroes, it will create C:\Games\City of Heroes\City of Heroes) 6. Let it do its thing. It'll checksum. It'll verify. It'll fix anything that got broke in the copying. 7. Delete the desktop version of the updater and all the crap it generated. |
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The only difference is the "copy to you new destination" step ends up BEng preceded by copying/burning to a storage meium of some kind like a DvD or thumb drive. If you have the room you might want to make a test server install while you are at it - handy to have.
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Originally Posted by Kahlan_
Thanks. I don't understand how to apply that to moving from one computer to another though? It seems to only describe moving it on the same computer.
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I did mine a little bit differently when I moved to a new machine (well, technically same machine but a wipe and clean install of a new version of Windows). Copied the entire CoH directory to my second internal hard drive, exported the CoH folder in the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cryptic/Coh) to a .reg file, and copied that as well. When I got my new clean Windows install up and running, I copied the CoH install folder back to the same location as it was on the old machine (in my case, C:/Program Files/City of Heroes) and re-imported the registry values.
Sounds complicated, but really isn't, and saved me a decent amount of time patching and verifying. Of course, it might not be the best way to go about doing it, but it's another possible method.
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The last time I reformatted, I decided just to do a fresh install of CoH. I was suprised by how quick the process has become, instead of wasting time backing up, transferring, downloading and 'fixing' files the download itself was only about 20 minutes, and I was able to generate new options files in game by simply logging onto a character who was previously 'correct', save them, and load them on all the other characters.
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Those of you with higher-end computers/bandwidth may try a fresh install next time instead of trying to transfer over an old install.
If I want to transfer coh to a new computer, can I just move the coh folder itself? Or do I have to redownload it?