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I have BB 2008 on my desktop but I want to both update to 2010 and move to a laptop, using the USB hard drive. Do I have to update the desktop first and then copy everything to the laptop or can I just plug the USB into the laptop and use it straightaway, or should I first copy 2008 to the laptop and update that?



If you have your own songfiles in your original BB folder, and if your original version came with addons that may not be included with the new version, you would want to keep all that in place.

In that case, I would indeed go ahead and install the new version to C: drive, in the same folder, right overtop of the old version there. This will not erase any of the stuff you've already got in there that is not part of the new version. You will keep your song folders, settings, etc. just the way you had them in the old version.

After installing to C: drive right overtop of the old bb in the same folder, is okay to copy that folder to the outrigger drive, or any other drive if you like. I wouldn't copy it to the outrigger drive simply because there is not enough space for BB and all of the RealTracks plus the original new version which you should want to keep intact for backup.

BUT -- The Installer .exe file on the USB drive actually has several ways to pick from when you run it.

Read the readmefirst file on the USB drive for the particulars before doing anything.

You can elect to Install *Just* the BIAB .exe file onto your C: drive overtop of the old one, and then open up the new bb and use the RealDrums and RealTracks control panels to tell bb to look on the USB drive for any RealDrums or Realtracks as needed. Real space saver. Plus, BiaB will still work on your C: drive without the USB drive if you use only the MIDI based styles at such times. Lean and mean, as it were.

You have options, just be sure not to delete anything until you are positive you have it copied somewhere else properly. Don't want to lose any of your songfiles you've already worked so hard on, nor any of the special pgmusic addons that may have been included in the last pak you purchased.

As for the legalities, I'm no lawyer, but even if you have a copy on two machines, you are one person and can only run one copy on one machine at a time. I don't think anyone at PGMusic would be hunting you down for that at all. <g>


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