Now You're Cooking! Tip

Jan-Feb 2009

Moving NYC to a Vista Computer

This NYC Tip is for folks who want to put NYC on a Vista computer, along with all their user files from an previous installation on an old computer.

Let’s pretend that your previous NYC version is v5.61.

To get NYC installed on your Vista computer:

Download NYC 5.84 from http://www.ffts.com/nyc32dl.htm onto your Vista PC and install it on your Vista PC. V5.84 was designed with Vista in mind. Do NOT install v5.61 on your Vista machine.

To get your NYC user files from your 5.61 installation onto your Vista computer:

STEP 1 (copy over your NYC 5.61 folder to your Vista computer:

On your old PC, make sure your NYC user folder is under your NYC main folder. If not, move the folder back there using Tools… Options… User Folder tab.

Copy your entire NYC 5.61 folder from your old computer to a USB flash drive (avoid using a CD for this copying as CDs relabel files as "read-only").

Put the USB flash drive into your Vista computer.

Using File Explorer on your Vista machine (rt-click Start... Explore...), copy the NYC 5.61 folder from your USB flash drive (or other media) to the folder :

<drive:>\Users\Public\Public Documents\FFTS\Nyc561

NOTE: Do NOT copy the 5.61 folder to Program Files on your Vista machine.

IMPORTANT: If there is no “nyc.usr” file in your <drive:>\Users\Public\Public Documents\FFTS\Nyc561 folder, you need to create one (this file won’t exist for NYC 5.62 and earlier). Create a text file named “nyc.usr” using Notepad or other text editor. On the first and only line of the text file, add the string:

<drive:>\Users\Public\Documents\FFTS\Nyc561\user

where <drive:> is the appropriate drive letter.

STEP 2 (upgrade your 5.61 user files as they are brought into v5.84):

Run v5.84 on your Vista computer and select File… Upgrade…

Use the Browse… button to locate the folder (dbl-click the drive list and folder list to find the folder on your flash drive).

Press Proceed in the Upgrade window to bring over/upgrade user files (including reg info and cookbooks) from your previous version's NYC folder on the flash drive.

Use File… Open Cookbook… to see all cookbooks in your folder.

Note that incoming cookbooks may be slightly renamed to avoid name conflicts (e.g., RECIPES may be changed to RECIPES1, etc).

After a couple weeks, when you are sure you have everything, you can remove your previous version's folder (v5.61).

The above Upgrade process should bring over your reg info from your v5.61 folder that you copied to your Vista machine. In case you need to enter your reg info into NYC manually, send an email with your registered name (and registration # if you know it) to sales@loginetics.com and we will send your reg info to you.

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