ED from old PC to new

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Firstly, apologies if this has been done to death but I'm posting this from my phone and searching is a pain. My current PC is in dry dock with a blown power plant and the possibility of other dead modules too.

In the event that the PC can be repaired, I need to back up ED. That's not a problem.

What I need to understand is how to get ED running on a new PC.

  • can I just copy the game from the old PC to the new one?
  • do I just need to re-download from the store?
  • if so, will just EDO work or do I need to re-download Horizons first, then EDO?

Thanks!
 

Codger

Codger
There are 3 things you'll probably want to keep:



Bindings

Journals

Visited Stars Cache



Bindings are here: C:\\Users\\\[YOUR USER NAME\]\\AppData\\Local\\Frontier Developments\\Elite Dangerous\\Options\\Bindings

Journals are here: C:\\Users\\\[YOUR USER NAME\]\\Saved Games\\Frontier Developments\\Elite Dangerous

Visited Stars here: C:\\Users\\\[YOUR USER NAME\]\\AppData\\Local\\Frontier Developments\\Elite Dangerous
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
OK, so you can't really copy your existing ED folder over that contains all the game's files to save on download times.

On my current machine, I have the game on my D: drive. What if I physically removed that drive and mounted in a new PC? How would that work?
 

Codger

Codger
I’d do a fresh install myself, while preserving the stuff I mentioned. Then you know everything is installed correctly.
 
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stormyuk

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stormyuk
Codger said:
Visited Stars here: C:\\Users\\\[YOUR USER NAME\]\\AppData\\Local\\Frontier Developments\\Elite Dangerous
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Do you need to copy that entire directory as there seems to be quite a lot of stuff there, the visited star cache seems to be in numbered folders can they be copied individually or will pointers to them be lost?
 

torloisk

torloisk
This might help as well:


Moving my ED files to new PC

I have new windows install I want to move my ED installs to. I have 3 installs at the moment for my 3 cmdrs, 1 is via steam. I've seen this https://support.frontier.co.uk/kb/faq.php?id=108 I could just copy the whole lot across, although I'm not sure how steam will cope with that, and there...
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk
 

FatzDomingo

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Codger said:
There are 3 things you'll probably want to keep:



Bindings

Journals

Visited Stars Cache



Bindings are here: C:\\Users\\\[YOUR USER NAME\]\\AppData\\Local\\Frontier Developments\\Elite Dangerous\\Options\\Bindings

Journals are here: C:\\Users\\\[YOUR USER NAME\]\\Saved Games\\Frontier Developments\\Elite Dangerous

Visited Stars here: C:\\Users\\\[YOUR USER NAME\]\\AppData\\Local\\Frontier Developments\\Elite Dangerous
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You'd think that somebody at Frontier would have foreseen Players migrating to another, especially a beefier machine.
In order to facilitate that, I would have written a Migration Utility which would have saved all relevant data, bindings saves and journals to an external USB Drive. The requisite Import Utility would plonk the aforementioned Data Packs in the right places.

The only missing piece in the puzzle is what ED actually "sees" reads as the Name/Address of Attached Devices. This would make editing existing binds a whole lot easier rather than recreating everything from scratch when you've kept peripherals the same.

Just a thought.
 
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