This is a question we get asked quite often so we thought we would post some guidelines here. Essentially, you need to copy across your 'raw' recordings and your MCF file (which contains your track listings and suchlike). The split-up tracks can be regenerated by VinylStudio automatically, or you can copy them across as well, it's up to you.
The easiest way to get the files from one computer to another is to network them together using the file sharing features built into Windows. If you cannot do this, you can copy them via an external hard drive. Memory sticks are generally too small to fit all the files on, although you could do it in several smaller chunks, at a pinch.
You raw recordings and your MCF file live in the following folder:
My Documents
Recordings
<name of your collection>.mcf -- a file
<name of your collection> -- a folder
Elton_John~Best_of~side1.wav
Elton_John~Best_of~side2.wav
...
or in older versions of VinylStudio:
My Documents
My Music
Recordings
<name of your collection>.mcf -- a file
<name of your collection> -- a folder
Elton_John~Best_of~side1.wav
Elton_John~Best_of~side2.wav
...
Drag everything in the Recordings folder across to your new drive, making sure that nothing is moved between folders in the process. You should then be able to open your collection in VinylStudio using the
Open Collection command in the File menu. If you run into problems, compare the file and folder layouts on the old and new drives to see what has gone wrong. Note that you can put the files anywhere you like on the new drive, provided that they remain in their original folders.
To install VinylStudio on your new PC, see:
http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=22.0