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====== Moving OrangeCD Suite and music database to a different PC ====== To move OrangeCD Suite and your music database to a new computer, you need to perform three steps: install OrangeCD Suite, transfer your music database that contains all your albums, and enter your personal registration key. Below you can find brief instructions for each step. ===== Installing OrangeCD Suite ===== The setup program can be downloaded from the web page at http://www.firetongue.com/download.html. This page is updated every time a new version is released, so if you download from that location, you will always get the most recent version of OrangeCD Suite. Once you downloaded setup program for OrangeCD Suite, run it, then follow instructions on the screen. When setup is finished, you will have a fully functional, but time-limited version of the software which you can convert to a registered version by applying a registration key on step 3. ===== Transferring music database ====== Next step is to copy your music database from the old computer. Depending on how old was the version of the software on your old computer; the task can be achieved in a variety of ways. - If the old computer had OrangeCD Suite 6.0.0 or above, you can transfer the database by burning backup CD-Recordable as described in topic How to backup music database to CD-R, then restoring database from backup on the new computer as described in topic How to restore database from CD-R backup. - Alternatively, you can manually copy the music databases to the new computer's My Documents\My Music folder via network, CD-Recordable, or diskettes. The files that need to be copied all have .DAB extensions and Windows reports their types as "OrangeCD Database". The default and best location for music database files is My Documents\My Music folder. In case you cannot find your music database files on the old computer's hard drive, try using Windows search feature: click Start button, select Search - For files and folders - All files and folders, type "*.dab" (without quotes) and press Search. > Note: If your database had "Store covers in external files" option selected in Preferences, Imaging tab, you may also need to manually copy cover storage folders in addition to your database files. There is one cover storage folder per database. The cover storage folders are located in the same folder as databases and can be distinguished by _covers suffix. For example, if your database's name is John's Music Library, corresponding cover storage folder will be John's Music Library_covers. Again, not all databases have corresponding cover storage folders. So, if you don't see the folders, don't worry, because in your case all the covers are probably stored internally in the database file. Once you copied the music database files to the new computer's My Documents\My Music folder, you can start OrangeCD Catalog, press [Browse for a database] button, and select your music database file. ===== Entering registration key ===== Finally, if you have your registration key handy, you can enter it as well as your name in the boxes when prompted by OrangeCD Catalog. Make sure that you spell your name exactly as in the registration letter. If you lost your registration key, feel free to submit support request using online support form or send an e-mail message to support at orangecd@firetongue.com, and the key will be resent to you at no charge. Make sure to provide some basic details of your purchase, like e-mail address at the time of order, your full name, or mailing address.
