Moving Your LOGDRAFT or Soil Lab. Test Projects to a New Computer
Last Revised January 3, 2023
Background: This document explains how to move laboratory test data or
boring log project files from one computer to another.
Instructions:
- On your new computer, install your GEOSYSTEM package.
- You'll need to copy your files to a USB flash drive or over the network to your
new computer, so insert the flash drive into your old computer, or make sure you have
an empty directory on a network share ready.
- Start Windows Explorer and navigate to the directory that you're using to
store your project folders. If you don't know where your project files are:
Start your GEOSYSTEM program and look at the subdirectory listed next to each
project shown in the "recent projects" list on the opening
screen.
- Each project is stored in its own folder under the subdirectory you found
in the previous step, with a .GEO extension: Just right-click on a project
folder and "Copy", then go to your USB flash drive or network share
directory, right-click and select "Paste".
- When you have all of your files copied, go to your new computer and create
a new directory in which to store them (you could use
C:\users\public\documents\geosystem, which is created for
you the first time the program's started).
- Finally, copy the project folders from your USB flash drive or network share over
to the directory you created in the previous step.
After you've copied your project files over, you might want to read this support document for tips
on moving your program settings, grain size specification envelopes, CONS
machine deflection tables, LOGDRAFT boring log forms, etc., from your old
machine to your new.
