My computer is going to receive a new hard drive and I need to save my ReefMaster V1 program, maps, and tracks to an external hard drive for about a week while my computer gets upgraded. What do I need to do to make this transition as easy as possible and not lose any data? Thanks in advance.

I just did this a few weeks ago. I had all of my mapping files in a directory labeled " Mapping " on my C: drive. I right clicked this directory and then clicked Copy and then I Right Clicked on the Thumbdrive Directory ( I transferred all of the files to a thumb drive ) and then clicked Paste. An hour later ( not kidding ) all the files where then put on the thumb drive. I did the same for a directory I called " Recordings " that held all of my sonar recordings.

What I failed to do and really really wished I had done was Click the " About Reefmaster " button ( The fish button ) and then Deactivated Reefmaster cause now I have one of the two licensed copies of Reefmaster I'm allowed to have floating around out in the void that I can't use.

After I had everything on the thumbdrive, when I put it onto the new hard drive ( This is important ) I made sure I put it back on a drive with the same designation, example, onto the C: drive. If your original files are on a D: drive or F: drive, make sure you put them back onto a drive with that designation because that is where Reefmaster is going to look for them.

Hope this helps.

Hey Gimper, we can reset that activation for you if required - just drop a note to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your key details.

Gimper has said most of it already, but a few points to consider:

Copy workspaces by copying the workspace directory and all of its contents.

If you have sonar log files, ReefMaster will need these to be in their original location when viewing sonar or sidescan mosaic. The easiest way to make this work is to ensure that you copy all of your source sonar logs to the same relative location on your new computer. e.g. if your sonar logs live in c:\sonar_logs on your old machine, then make a folder of the same name on your new machine.

If you have custom palettes or multiple equipment profiles, you might want to bring your settings file with you to the new computer. You can export and import settings using the buttons in the Global Settings window.

As Gimper has already mentioned, consider deactivating ReefMaster on the old computer (button in "About ReefMaster" window) if you do not intend to use it there again. This frees up the activation for use elsewhere.

Thanks Matt. I sent out a note.

I found an easy quick fix for this on Windows 10. But I think it should work from NT 4.0 and upwards...

I just moved to new computer and also moved my sonar files from "My Documents" to Onedrive.
The old path was like C:\Users\user1\Documents\SonarLogs\... and the new path C:\Users\user1\OneDrive\Documents\SonarLogs\...

Opening my ReefMaster projects, I was prompted for location of each track- and image files...

I solved this by creating a symbolic hard link, in the old location, pointing to the new location:

Started command prompt (cmd.exe) as Administrator. (Right click + Run As administrator)

Move to level above old location:
CD C:\Users\user1\Documents

Create a link pointing to new location:
MKLINK /J SonarLogs C:\Users\user1\OneDrive\Documents\SonarLogs

This results in a "virtual folder" C:\Users\user1\Documents\SonarLogs that ReefMaster accepts.