You need to move your personal files, the applications you use and, when possible, the settings of the applications. So it's best to prepare the migration when… you arrive on your new computer! You never know when you have to move. Maybe you will have to move earlier than you think just because your computer (or at least the disk) crashes.

You have to know where your files are located! This is common sense and it will also help you make a backup of your files…

• You should put as little as possible on the system disk (C:)! If there is a problem (crash, etc…) or the system is updated, there is a good chance that most of the content of C: will be erased.
  • The content of the desktop is on C: ⇒ Do not put important files on C: !
• The computer you get should arrived pre-configured with 1 or 2 extra partitions (besides C:). Put your files on these partitions!
• Do not put your files and folders directly on a partition, because it will make them harder to backup.
  
  Always create a main folder where you will put your files. This way, all you have to do is move or make a backup of this folder
  
  It is a good practise to have 2 different folders:
  • DATA FOLDER: <disk:>\Users\<your_login> folder. Keep all the important things in there, and regularly make a backup of this folder
  • SCRATCH FOLDER: <disk:>\Scratch\<your_login> folder. This folder is for temporary files (e.g. installation files for the programs, attachments that are not important, data files that are available in other places, …)

You just need a list of all the applications you use, and make sure there is an up-to-date version installed on the new computer

• The standard LSCE applications will probably be already installed on the new computer
• You will only need a list of what you have installed after you first got your current computer
• It's not easy to move the settings of the applications, so you you will probably have to reconfigure all the applications on the new computer…
  • If there is a way to store the settings of an application in a specific folder, make sure that these settings are saved in a subdirectory of the DATA FOLDER

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