Migrating the Desktop Environment

Using Desktop, you can import or export various settings when migrating the computer environment, when you wish to migrate and use Desktop with the same settings on multiple computers, etc.

You can import or export these settings using the Import & Export Tool that is installed when you install Desktop.

Migrating My Library

Items that Cannot Be Migrated

Items Not Migrated when the User Name Differs in the Source Environment and Target Environment

Distributing Settings

IMPORTANT
Desktop cannot start if you copy/restore the disk image of a computer in which Desktop is installed to another computer or another hard disk using a backup tool, etc. When migrating a Desktop environment to another computer, make sure to use the installer to reinstall Desktop.

A user settings file exported from the source environment can be imported to the Desktop installed in the target environment using the Import & Export Tool.

Export User Settings

Import User Settings

NOTE
Even if the source environment and the target environment use a different Windows OS, most settings can be migrated. Migration from a new version to an old version is not guaranteed. You can also export individual user settings. For information on the individual user settings that can be exported, see the following. Exporting Separate User Settings The settings exported by the Import & Export Tool include all the user settings that can be individually exported.

NOTE

Even if the source environment and the target environment use a different Windows OS, most settings can be migrated.

Migration from a new version to an old version is not guaranteed.

You can also export individual user settings. For information on the individual user settings that can be exported, see the following.

Exporting Separate User Settings

The settings exported by the Import & Export Tool include all the user settings that can be individually exported.

Migrating My Library

"My Library" is the Personal Library that is created when you start Desktop Browser for the first time. Data included in the My Library folder is not migrated, but the folder itself remains on Windows. To migrate the data, copy the data from the source environment to the library in the target environment.

NOTE
The My Library data is created immediately below the "My Documents" folder (Windows 7/Windows 8.1) or "Document" folder (Windows 10). If you were using a Document Destination Folder, the settings may need to be updated.

Items that Cannot Be Migrated

The following user settings are not migrated, regardless of the migration method.

Library authentication information (including cache)

Input history such as addresses and search keywords

Files in the check out folder (files being checked out)

Personal Button

Address Book

License information

Setting information for hot folders and transfer destinations

IMPORTANT
If the above items were already set in the target computer, the default values are restored when you execute the migration. Set/register them again as required.

Items Not Migrated when the User Name Differs in the Source Environment and Target Environment

If you import user settings to a Desktop environment with a different user name to the source environment, the following items cannot be migrated.

Documents in My Tray

The status of the file list in folders monitored by Document Monitor/Printer Monitor, print logs, fax transmission logs, and received fax logs

IMPORTANT
The following information that was registered in Desktop in the target environment is returned to its default values when the import process is executed. Configure or register these settings again, as necessary. Libraries, Hot Folders, and personal buttons, etc. set with a local path in the source environment Items that only exist in Desktop in the target environment (when migrating from a previous version)

IMPORTANT

The following information that was registered in Desktop in the target environment is returned to its default values when the import process is executed. Configure or register these settings again, as necessary.

Libraries, Hot Folders, and personal buttons, etc. set with a local path in the source environment

Items that only exist in Desktop in the target environment (when migrating from a previous version)

Distributing Settings

A user settings file exported from the source environment can be integrated in an installer and installed to the target environment using that installer.

Export User Settings

Installing with Desktop User Settings Loaded

NOTE
Even if the source environment and the target environment use a different Windows OS, most settings can be migrated. In "Distributing Settings", settings are not guaranteed to be migrated if the source environment and the target environment use a different version of Desktop. If you migrated the environment using the procedure in "Distributing Settings", fewer items are migrated than with the procedure in "Importing User Settings".

NOTE

Even if the source environment and the target environment use a different Windows OS, most settings can be migrated.

In "Distributing Settings", settings are not guaranteed to be migrated if the source environment and the target environment use a different version of Desktop.

If you migrated the environment using the procedure in "Distributing Settings", fewer items are migrated than with the procedure in "Importing User Settings".