I needed to buy a new computer over this past weekend when my PC motherboard bit the dust. Now I am recovering from the trauma and having to install programs on the new computer that I need.

When it comes to CoffeeCup Direct FTP, I wonder if there is any way to import the "My Sites" data to the new computer.

I can still access the dead computer's hard drive, which I removed from the original tower and set up in an enclosure attached by USB to my new computer. This means that my original installation of CoffeeCup Direct FTP resides on an external hard drive.

I need to know if the data about servers, usernames, passwords, etc. can be imported from the now external hard drive to the internal drive on my new computer where I have installed CoffeeCup Direct FTP.

Woody Goulart
http://g2channel.com
Arlington, VA

I must admit that this happened to me a couple of months ago. Like you eveything was basically fried save my hard drive and ram. I know this won't help you, but when I got the new computer, I installed my old hardrive and kept the new one as an external backup. This way, everything was installed already, all I had to do was put the new drivers for the hardware in the new computer.

I emailed CoffeeCup support asking about importing FTP server data. The response I got back is below. It's very disappointing that CoffeeCup Direct FTP is not designed to store the user's FTP server data (usernames, passwords, URLs) somewhere in the event that the user may need to import that data. I have used other FTP products from other developers that allows for importing of this data, so why can't CoffeeCup Direct FTP?

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Hello Elwood,

Unfortunately, there is not a method to transfer the FTP profiles from one PC to another. You will have to contact your webhost to retrieve any lost passwords.

Thanks,


Zeke Tamez
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CoffeeCup Customer Care, CoffeeCup Software Inc.
http://www.coffeecup.com
http://www.bluedomino.com
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Unfortunately that information is encrypted can only be pulled by our FTP programs. Sorry.

The data must be stored somewhere. What if you install the program on the new hard drive and copy the entire old ftp program folder over the new one? I mean, if it's the same version, then all the files should be the same except for altered ones (which may contain the login info). Not saying this is the best advice, but I'd try it as a last resort.

Ha, sorry Bert. I just re-read yours and I repeated the same idea. Well, that's 2 votes anyway.

Did anyone try this? Did it work?
I lost a lot of data I had stored. Numerous server info

--KZ

Your profiles are stored in the registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CoffeeCup Software\Internet\Profiles

(Start > Run > REGEDIT > Enter > Browse to that key > Left click on it to highlight it > Registry > Export > Save to a location)

You can export this registry key, then import it into the other Computer it should transfer your profiles.

Make sure that Direct FTP is closed when you do this.

Sneaky sneaky, love the Lego head, Scott.

Thanks Scott. I knew there had to be a way. Now the problem is how to get it bec. I can read that partition on my drive, but I can't boot to that OS. Is there a way to run regedit on another drive partition other than the current OS?

--KZ