Help with wiz.bin after upgrade to Windows 7

[71_Cuda]

I recently upgraded my HTPC from XP Media Center Edition to Windows 7 professional (64 bit). I backed up my SageTV directory (including properties files and wiz.bin) prior to upgrading. After installing the latest version of SageTV 7 on the new Windows install, I transferred over the properties and wiz.bin file. The properties file seems to have transferred okay, but I don't have my Favorites. My understanding is it should work provided I named the computer the same (which I'm not 100% positive I did, since I forgot to check it before I upgraded). So my questions are...

1) Is there something I'm forgetting?

2) Is there a way to confirm, from any of the files in my previous install, the name of the computer on my previous install - so I can ensure they match.

3) Anything else I can do to recover the wiz.bin info to the new install?

[71_Cuda]

Nevermind! I just found the problem. SageTV installed in the "Program Files (x86)" folder. That's where I placed the wiz.bin file. After realizing that that wiz.bin was not updating or being changed, I looked elsewhere. I didn't realize that the wiz.bin was put in the "Program Files" directory, not the (x86) directory. It works now.

[GKusnick]

You really shouldn't copy a properties file from one installation to another. Among other things, the file contains absolute paths to file locations that may be different on another installation. It also contains information about your installed plugins, so your new installation will now think you have those plugins installed when you actually don't, and will get very confused when you try to install, uninstall, or upgrade plugins.

Bottom line is if you're starting over with a clean installation of Sage, start with a clean properties file as well. Keep your old Wiz.bin, but everything else should be reconfigured through the UI, not by copying properties files.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

You really shouldn't copy a properties file from one installation to another. Among other things, the file contains absolute paths to file locations that may be different on another installation. It also contains information about your installed plugins, so your new installation will now think you have those plugins installed when you actually don't, and will get very confused when you try to install, uninstall, or upgrade plugins.

Bottom line is if you're starting over with a clean installation of Sage, start with a clean properties file as well. Keep your old Wiz.bin, but everything else should be reconfigured through the UI, not by copying properties files.

In fact, that copying of the sage.properties file is what caused your wiz.bin to be in teh wrong place. That path is specified in the sage.properties file

wizard/db_backup_file=C\:\\Program Files\\SageTV\\SageTV\\Wiz.bak
wizard/db_file=C\:\\Program Files\\SageTV\\SageTV\\Wiz.bin

The first time you launched sage, it looked there, didn't see it, so it created a blank database at that location.

[71_Cuda]

Great! Thanks guys. I think I'll do a fresh install of SageTV again (deleting the SageTV folder) and just copy over the wiz.bin this time.