Chandler Desktop Migration Instructions

Q How do I move my data from one version of Chandler to another?

Migrating to a New Version of Chandler?

1. Start up your old version of Chandler.
2. Go to the File>>Export Collections and Settings... menu to save all your data (items, collections, accounts, sharing URLs and application settings) to a .chex file.
3. Quit Chandler.
4. Download a new version of Chandler if you haven't already.
5. Start up your new version of Chandler. You will be prompted with a dialog warning you that this new version of Chandler is incompatible with the data generated by your old version of Chandler. Go ahead and select Delete Data and proceed with start up. (Don't worry about deleting your existing data. That's what the .chex file is for!)
6. Go to the File>>Reload Collections and Settings... menu to reload all your data into your new version of Chandler from the .chex file.
7. You will be prompted with a dialog warning you that reload will overwrite all of the data that currently exists in Chandler. Go ahead and click Yes to proceed. Chandler will quit, restart and reload your data automatically.

In the future, we hope to automate this workflow. For now, we hope the manual procedure works smoothly for you!

Migrating Specifically from 0.7alpha5 version of Chandler to 0.7.x version of Chandler?

1. Start up your old version of Chandler.
2. Go to the File>>Dump items to file...menu to save all your data (items, collections, accounts, sharing URLs and application settings) to a .dump file.
3. Quit Chandler.
4. Download a new version of Chandler if you haven't already.
5. Start up your new version of Chandler. You will be prompted with a dialog warning you that this new version of Chandler is incompatible with the data generated by your old version of Chandler. Go ahead and select the first option and proceed with start up. (Don't worry about overwriting your existing data. That's what the .dump is for!)
6. Go to the File>>Reload Collections and Settings... menu. The window has "Chandler Export Files" selected by default, so change that to "All Files". Then select the dump file created in the previous step to reload all your data into your new version of Chandler.
7. You will be prompted with a dialog warning you that reload will overwrite all of the data that currently exists in Chandler. Go ahead and click Yes to proceed. Chandler will quit, restart and reload your data automatically.