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My original BIAB was 2004 and all upgrades have been via download.
Therefore I cant UNinstall it and reload it - it wont be there to reload!
How do I move it lock stock and barrel to the root directory \bb.
And - where IS the root directory \bb or do I have to create it somewhere?
I am seriously thinking that when I get my 2010 version that I get it on disk, bin all this lot and start again - but that depends on many things, not least of which is Cash!
cheers
ian



Ian, BIAB is the one program that you can simply Copy and Paste the entire folder's contents to another location without fear. I do it all the time.

If you want to have BIAB located in C:\bb (Which is the default directory for bb but does not have to be, you can indeed name the main folder anything you like without fear of anything being "wrong" at all, other than when it comes time to install updates you will have to Browse to that folder every time rather than the quicker method of accepting the C:/bb location in the Installer files...).

*Create a New Folder in C: named bb

*Navigate in Windows Explorer to your present folder where all of bb lives.

*Use Edit -> Select All to highlight everything in that folder.

*Then hit Edit -> Copy (Don't hit Cut. Not until you are positive this happened and everything is working. This way you keep the original files right where they are, just in case you need a backup if anything at all goes wrong during the Copy).

*Navigate to your new C:\bb folder and hit Paste. Wait for everything to be copied over.

*Doubleclick on the bbw.exe in the new folder and check out BIAB, make sure it is running and all. Select and Play a couple songs, no need to play them all the way to the end.

*Once you are sure that bb is running fine from the new loacation, now you can go back and revisit wherever the program used to live and delete the entire folder.

Again, Band in a Box is the ONLY large scale music making program I know that will still allow this kind of copying. That's because it does not write to the windows registry. Which I think is a great feature.

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