![]() ![]() so you start out with the "backup" to the newly established drive P: or whatever. In my case Win10 - Right click on the Windows Start icon (usually located on the bottom bar, but in my case bar is vertical on the left side) and select "Disk Management" to get immediately to the window where you can directly reassign the freshly attached USB drive letter from the likely E or G up to something like P or Q, well out of the way. to define the drive used as the swapping disk as something odd so as not to clash with a drive on the target system if it happens to be a more complex system. One comment: I do use a similar method stated in step 5. I've made a link to this post from my Oly links page so it won't get too lost. I suggest you take a backup before attempting this. Please note that I'm not responsible if you lose your pictures because you made a manipulation error, etc. It will ask if you want to use this database, choose yes. Repeat steps 7 but choose the OLYMPUS folder you just created under your user. You can replace the existing files.ġ2- Open OV3. OV3 will move them there and update it's database.ġ1- Copy your database (the OLYMPUS folder on the external drive) to your user's Appdata/Local/ folder (same path as step 2 but for your new user if it's different). Select the folder on your new computer where you want to have your pictures. You can stop right there if you want to keep your photos and database on your external drive, if you want to move them to a drive on your new computer continue the following steps.ĩ- Select all pictures in OV3, and choose Move. ![]() It will ask if you want to use this database, click yes.Ĩ- Now all your raw edits will be back. There should be an option to change the database location, click on the icon on the right and select the OLYMPUS folder on your external drive. Pictures should appear but not yet have the raw edits.ħ- In OV3, go in Tools/Options/Advanced Parameters. Go to your pictures folder on your external drive. If not, follow these instructions to change it: Ħ- Open OV3. Copy all this OLYMPUS folder to the external drive.ģ- Take note of the external drive's Drive Letter (like E:, or F:, etc.)Ĥ- Disconnect your drive from the old computer and connect it on the new computer.ĥ- Check that it has the same drive letter. This database is by default in your user's folder (mine was at C:\Users\yvesp\AppData\Local\OLYMPUS). OV3 will then move all your pictures to your external drive, updating it's database.Ģ- Copy OV3's database on the same external drive. ![]() Select a folder on an external drive (I used a USB external hdd). Select all pictures, right click on anyone, and choose "Move". So for now I still have my raw edits on my old computer, but no way to transfer these countless hours of work to a new computer.ġ- On your old computer, open OV3, go to your folder where there are your RAW pictures. I can't believe someone would create a software where there's no tool or option to migrate your files to another computer, or even another folder. I don't promise this will work because there may be other paths in the database based on the OV3 program and user that are also different. You might get by with changing the path under OV3 Advanced on the new computer to the specific path names on the old computer after first creating those same folders and path on the new computer and then copying the complete Olympus folder from the old computer to the new one. The database has to know exactly were everything is stored and it uses the paths to do that. This is true of any database unless there is a way to export/import the information. If you try to change the location of files, OV3 warns that if you try to move the location it may not work under the Advanced settings.įrom what I've read your raw files needs to have the exact same path or else the database can't be used, is that true? I found the OV3 database under AppData under my user's folder, and tried to copy it to the new computer but it didn't work. I'm changing my compurer, I've copied all my olympus raw files to the new one but I lost all my edits. ![]()
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