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#3746 Moving Akeeba Remote Control to a new machine

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 08 March 2011 03:29 CST

Neilz
I've done a search of the forum, tried the 'Portable Remote Control' setup as suggested in the documentation, but nothing has seemed to work.

I'd like to move my current Akeeba Remote Control v2.5.0.36 to another machine (Win7), but not have to reenter all the data for all the sites I currently use it with 8 sites currently.

FWIW ... I made sure that ARC would work under Win7 by installing a fresh copy to the Win7 box first. It started fine. I didn't try to backup anything because I didn't have the configuration data for the sites.

According to the documentation, I should be able to copy everything in the current directory to a USB flash drive and run fine from there.

In the same way, I should be able to copy everything from the current directory, to the new machine in the same way. Trouble is, doesn't work, the data does not appear when ARC starts.

What am I missing ??

Thanks in advance,

Neil

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You also need to create the INI file mentioned in the documentation and place it inside the directory of the USB flash drive where ARC's executable is.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Neilz
Tried that ... for some reason it didn't work off the USB drive, and it didn't work off the hard drive of the other machine.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I'm confused :s Which version of Akeeba Remote Control are you using? 2.5 or 4.0.x? If you are not sure, does the interface resemble a Windows app or does it have a orange-ish appearance?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Neilz
According to the 'About' drop down: 2.5.0.36

Neilz
Just wondering ... any advice on why this is happening?

If, according to the documentation, the data is now kept in a database local to the directory, why aren't any of the files in the directory showing an updated date when I save or change data in the site list ??

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I can't replicate the problem you are experiencing. Let's try this:
1. Copy your arc.sqlite file according to the instructions of this detailed post.
2. Uninstall Akeeba Remote Control from both the secondary machine and the USB key
3. Copy all of the Akeeba Remote Control files to the USB key.
4. Create the file AkeebaRemoteControl.ini on the same directory as AkeebaRemoteControl.exe in your USB flash drive with the contents demonstrated in http://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/akeeba-remote-control-the-definitive-guide/ch02s04.html
5. Copy the arc.sqlite file from step 1 alongside the INI file you created above.

Now, Akeeba Remote Control is a portable application.

If you want to transfer it on a second machine, just follow step 1 to get a copy of arc.sqlite, install Akeeba Remote Control on that machine and follow step 1 in the reverse order to copy your backed up arc.sqlite file back to where Akeeba Remote Control is expecting it.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Neilz
SOLVED !!

The location of the arc.sqlite file was all that I needed. I moved that to the new machine, and all the site data is there.

I just needed to adjust the download drive letter, and it works fine.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I'm glad you got it working :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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