I’ve had a lot of people asking about this recently, so I hit record as I prepared my laptop with an updated reaper config before a mobile recording session.
– portable install on OSX
– copying settings
– fixing screensets
– temp file paths
– fx folders
– media explorer
The session went perfectly running REAPER and recording the band onto the USB flash drive.
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3 responses to “What To Expect When Moving Your REAPER Configuration to a New System”
Hi Jon, I’m interested if there’s a particular reason you’re not using the export/import configuration dialog to transfer only the the settings you want between two machines? I feel it could spare some trouble fixing stuff like the screensets. Is it to keep the scripts in sync?
Hi Michael
it’s basically the same but fewer steps.
open reaper, preferences, export config, wait for processing. quit reaper
find config file, copy config zip to flash drive
other computer – install/update reaper, open reaper, import config, restart reaper.
… then finally tweak the settings that didn’t transfer over because of different drive and user names, different peripherals, etc.
pretty sure I’ll still have the problem with screensets and resetting the paths since the two systems are very different.
I see :). Just re-checked the export dialog & you’re right, I thought it would let you de-select screensets, but it doesn’t. The only advantage is that you can omit the Media Data Base.