Database restore and setup on a New Laptop

[civillobo]

I am in the process of moving my Poker Tracker 4 Data Base (DB) from an older Laptop to a a new one and I am blown away how inefficient this seems to be. First making the DB backup on the old laptop took over 6 hours and maybe up to 10 hours. I am not sure because I went to bed while it was working. Now I am restoring the DB on the new laptop and I am on hour or two and this ridiculous operation. It seems to be restoring it one line at a time by date. My data base is only 536 MB (required Space) and I have only been using PT4 for about two months.

Is this for real? I am not even sure I am doing this right, has anyone else successfully done this and did it take this long? Please leave any pointers you might have.

[civillobo]

This is about 12 hours later, and the new pc is still importing the DB line by line..... Really? I have to be doing something wrong. There is now way it should be taking this long. Are there any admins in this forum that can offer some help?

[Flag_Hippo]

If it's still restoring you can cancel it and restart the restore with everything under 'Optional Files' unchecked and it should proceed much faster.

[civillobo]

Thank Flag Hippo, I ended up letting the process run out for a full 14 hours after it started restoring. It the new computer pt4 said that this Database cannot be deleted. Fatal Error restoration. Something about two sessions using the database....

What a waste of time. I will try it again without the optional files. And maybe I I have to suspend the pt4 on old computer? Two sessions?

Any other pointers would be great.

[Flag_Hippo]

If the restore has completed successfully it's not necessary to delete that database and start again. Also the two sessions have nothing to do with another computer - it just means something else on this computer is accessing that database as well so if you want to delete that database you should disable NoteCaddy via the 'PokerTracker+ -> NoteCaddy -> Disable NoteCaddy' menu option and then restart PokerTracker 4 before trying again.

[civillobo]

Wow Flag Hippo that was the trick. I disabled note caddy and it updated in 2 minutes. That was crazy with your pointers I did this in less than five minutes!

Thank you very much. I hope this thread helps other people because if I would have done this from the beginning it would have save so much time and pain.

So in review I did a backup on the old laptop without any optional data to an external drive.

I plugged the external drive into the new laptop. Then I opened PT4 on the new laptop. Then I disabled note caddy on the new PT4 program, then did a data restore. All of my Data seems to be on the new Laptop. No problem.

[Flag_Hippo]

Thanks for the update.