Author Topic: Moving project from PC to iMac  (Read 2128 times)

Offline CharlesW

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Moving project from PC to iMac
« on: 2015 August 25 10:02:23 »
Last night I let my fast PC laptop to do the heavy lifting of manual preprocessing. I was careful to save the project along the way. This morning I wanted to transfer the project to my slower but way better screen iMac. When I looked at the project in File Explorer on my PC it was just a 530kb file. Not the MB's I expected it to be. How do you transfer a project from one computer to another and insure that the images go along for the ride?

Offline msmythers

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Re: Moving project from PC to iMac
« Reply #1 on: 2015 August 25 10:17:26 »
There are 2 components of a saved project. The *.xosm file which carries the parameters for the second part. That second part is the  *.data folder. This has all of the actual saved data. In the folder are files, sometimes a few to very many. Both the *.xosm and the *.data folder have to be moved. Both the file and the folder have the same identifying name.


Mike