What's required to Migrate from one machine to a new one?

[FatzDomingo]

Next Week my new Go Faster with Stripes Box should arrive courtesy of SCAN.
I'm going to just do a clean reinstall via Steam for Elite.
What Directories (Apart from Bindings, Player and Startup) should I plonk on an USB Stick and copy over?

It would be really Cool if FD thought of supplying a Migration Tool that allowed just that, from Old Drive/Machine to a New One.

 

[Ethan Drake]

Did it a few days ago.
Not a full success, but AFAIK :

I used Steam Backup facility for the installed game. Had to re-download the game in the Launcher though, not sure it was because of an update, but it kept the frontier account keys stuff ok.

I took time to rebuild/rebind, but you can avoid most of it with the two Folders you might want to keep/restore :
<System Disk>\Users\<your User Profile>\AppData\Roaming\Frontier Developments (countains parameters)
and
<System Disk>\Users\<your User Profile>\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous (contains logs).

Also think about your ED Marketplace/Connector and such stuff if you use it (I forgot it).

 

[torloisk]

Check this thread:

ED from old PC to new

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...

forums.frontier.co.uk

 

[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

 

[Kingston@#]

clone is the way i would do it. i have in the passed, moved OS drive between intel and amd systems and had no issue.
either cpu will update drivers thats needed when booted.

 

[mearmortal]

Fresh Install for me just two weeks ago with new hardware (M.2 drive.)
Bindings and Journals folder, use your old SSD for the 3rd party apps for elite and just about anything else that doesn't need great access. Took just over 10 minutes and I was running windows.
If you can work it out, you can install EDMC on another drive. (Check out dos command msiexec /i "<directory\filename>" INSTALLDIR="<Directory>")
You can get EDDiscovery too to work off another drive it it's own folder, including the database. ( see switch -appfolder "<Directory Name>" )