I have purchased a mac mini for the purpose of running Indigo, Phlink, running slideshows on my TV and playing iTunes playlists on my stereo. I need to move Indigo 2.0 beta from my current machine (which I really don't want to leave on all the time) to the new machine. I need to transfer the data files, the license, preferences, etc. What files need to be moved? Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but I couldn't find it in Help or in a search.

I also find it hard to track things down I know I've read sometimes in the forums. Here's a link to another thread that discusses migrating settings.

As suggested in the referenced topic from the new machine I mounted the volume on which Indigo was installed on the old machine then in Terminal I did:
sudo cp -R /Volumes/Basement1/Library/"Application Support"/"Perceptive Automation"/"Indigo 2" /Library/"Application Support"/"Perceptive Automation"

Plugged the interface into the new machine, launched, started the local server. Everything seems to be working, but I get this error message in the log. What does it mean and how do I fix it?

Jan 5, 2007 10:06:11 PM
Error DoSaveNow() caught exception: FileIOError -- file error
Error failed to save preferences

wikner wrote:Everything seems to be working, but I get this error message in the log. What does it mean and how do I fix it?

The most likely explanation is a file permission problem -- Indigo wasn't able to write over the preferences because it didn't have permission. Make sure the user account under which you are running Indigo has full access to all the files. Another possibility is if the file was open by another application at the time Indigo was trying to save it.

Regards,
Matt

use cp -Rp instead so cp tries to preserve permissions on the files. Though you don't need to copy everything if you just install indigo to another machine and move over preferences & databases from the old one.

By just copying you won't be getting indigo launchd entry to the new machine (automatic server startup).

cue wrote:By just copying you won't be getting indigo launchd entry to the new machine (automatic server startup).

FYI, if the preference is set inside the Start Local Server dialog to launch on login, then when you run the Indigo client on the server machine it should automagically reinstall the launchd entry.

Regards,
Matt

support wrote:

cue wrote:By just copying you won't be getting indigo launchd entry to the new machine (automatic server startup).

FYI, if the preference is set inside the Start Local Server dialog to launch on login, then when you run the Indigo client on the server machine it should automagically reinstall the launchd entry.

Ah, nice feature

After the transfer, I just re-ran the installer. It assumed an update, kept all the preferences and the database, and now it all works. Thanks everyone.