Hi everyone, Thanks for the many helpful comments and suggestions. Besides the responses that were sent concurrently to BUM, below is the reply I received from Michael Engelhardt at Bruker. This should generally be helpful information. However, our particular problem turned out not to be related to permission settings. Our old and new workstations have Windows NT operating system. When we copied the conf and exp folders from old to new workstation, we used an in house secured depository ("Filecity" that can be used by anyone who has a Brockport account. This depository is linux-based and in the transition of transferring the folders to and from the depository, some files were changed. The particular files that were changed all seem to have a name construction of ".filename" such as ".ListOfFiles" for example. We realized this when we noticed that these type of files were grayed out after they were copied. We then used a built-in backup utility to make a backup of the conf and exp directories on the old workstation, copied the bkf file to the new workstation, ran a restore on the new workstation. This method seems to have worked around our issue, as Topspin is no longer complaining about any of those files. Thanks again for all helpful comments, Markus "your approach is almost correct. You may copy over an existing conf and exp to a new computer. But then you must install TopSpin1.3 (for example) once more on top to straighten out the user permissions and to replace any old Bruker files with the new ones. A better approach is to first run the nmr_save script on the old version (computer), copy the resulting archive to the new computer, and then run nmr_save with the restore option to import the configuration into the new TopSpin version. This works most comfortably with TopSpin2.1, but it will also work with TopSpin1.3. From what I read in your description my first suggestion (install TopSpin once more on top) is maybe the quickest way to get you going. Best wishes, Mike ! Bitte die neue Telefonnummer beachten - Please note the new phone number Bruker BioSpin GmbH Dr. Michael Engelhardt >Dear Dr. Markus, > The file permission problem is arising because the exp and conf >folders of the old PC are copied into the new PC after topspin is installed. >Inside the Bruker Utilities shortcut found on desktop, there is command >prompt shortcut. open it and type perl\bin\perl prog\bin\installnmr >C:\<TOPSPINHOME> <nmrsu> >this would update the permissions. > >Note: > 1. If topspin is updated, running of firmware update for some of the >boards (SGU/HPPR/DRU/BSMS) may be required. > > 2. In case the old PC was with Linux and the new PC is Windows, then >topspin needs to be reinstalled after the conf and exp folders are copied. >Else au programs will not compile. > > 3. Topspin comes with au program nmr_save. We can use this to save and >restore the nmr configuration across topspin installations. And personally, >I find it as the best way to migrate the settings. This can be done as >follows. >open topspin of old PC and run nmr_save - give the nmrsuper user password. >In the opened dialog box, >location of backup file - C:\<TOPSPINHOME>\nmr_backup >installation to be saved or restore destination - C:\<TOPSPINHOME> >Spectrometer name - spect (Or the conf that needs to be copied say >av400,...) >Click on save > >This will create a backup of the topspin configuration in >C:\<TOPSPINHOME>\nmr_backup folder. >Copy this folder into the new workstation C:\<TOPSPINHOME> directory. > >Open topspin in new PC, execute nmr_save - give the nmrsuper user password. >In the opened dialog box, >location of backup file - C:\<TOPSPINHOME>\nmr_backup >installation to be saved or restore destination - C:\<TOPSPINHOME> >Spectrometer name - spect (Or the conf that needs to be copied say >av400,...) >click on restore. > > 4. Additionally, copy the files in the old C:\Documents and >Settings\<user>\.topspin-computername PC into the new PC C:\Documents and >Settings\<user>\.topspin-computername > >With Best Regards, > Raghav > >More info can is found chapter 8 of in the Topspin 1.3 installation guide >for windows XP. > >> Subject: How to properly transfer user settings of Topspin 1.3 onto a new >> computer? >> >> Hi, >> >> Maybe some of you have gone through the process of changing to a new >> instrument computer and can help us out. >> >> We have Topspin 1.3 patchlevel 8 and desire to retire our original >> instrument computer. So far we have been able to set up the NFS Maestro >> server and the Usergroups and settings properly on the new computer. >> Topspin 1.3 is loaded fine and runs with the new license file. We are able >> to establish communication with the console. >> >> The trouble comes in when attempting to migrate our specific spectrometer >> settings to the new computer. We were told to simply replace the conf and >> exp folder with the ones from our old computer. While this gets us to the >> point where we can use the instrument again with same settings for probe, >> lock, shim etc. we keep running into permission problems, most notably at >> two places. >> a) In the ICON NMR configuration window a permission related error message >> comes up when trying to save >> b) In the Edprosol window a permission related error message comes up when >> exiting >> >> Simply copying folders and files just does not seem to be the proper way. >> In this respect, I should add that our new computer has a different name. >> In the installation guide it points us to one file where we have to make a >> change to reflect the different computer name and we have done that. >> >> Anyway, I hope somebody has run into that predicament before and can give >> us pointers where to be careful and how to proceed properly. >> >> Thanks, >> Markus >Received on Mon Jan 25 17:30:47 2010
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