Moving directory to another machine

[gluebunny]

Hi there,

I installed NT 6.5 on a new machine (Vista64, old one was XP32). I copied my entire user directory for Ninja Trader over and everything appears to work, other than compiling indicators.

When I try to compile indicators it says this:

"Metadata file 'c:\program files\ninjatrader 6.5\bin\NinjaTrader.Core.dll' could not be found"

That makes sense, since NT is installed into c:\program files\NinjaTrader 6.5 (as vista tends to do for x86).

Those DLLs are in there, so it's just the top level directory it's getting wrong. What should I do to remedy this? I don't really want to junction/etc. I just want to fix whatever in NT is looking at the wrong path.

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

gluebunny,

You should NEVER copy the directory. Instead you should use the Backup/Restore utility available. Please use File -> Utilities -> Backup on your old machine and bring that file over to your new machine and use Restore.

[gluebunny]

Ahh...interesting.

I've done the copy method for numerous upgrades, as well as at least 2 machine changes and/or clones without a problem. Guess I've been lucky

I'll try that, thanks