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Move your meetings to another Mac

The new Mac cannot read a copied meeting library without a transfer code from the working original Mac. Get and save the code before you move files.

Get the transfer code

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  1. Open Settings (⌘,) and select General.
  2. Find Your meetings, and under Move to another Mac click Get Transfer Code…. If Settings says you already saved a transfer code, use that code. The same code works for every move.
  3. A sheet titled Your transfer code shows it. Click Copy Code, put it somewhere safe, tick I have saved this code, and click Done.

The code is shown once and is not stored. Save it in a password manager, separate from the copied library. If you click Cancel instead of Done, nothing is saved and you can get a code later.

Copy the folder

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Use Show in Finder to locate the library folder. Close Recordstead, then copy that whole folder to the same place on the other Mac, ~/Library/Application Support/com.recordstead.app/, using Migration Assistant, a disk or a network share.

Unlock them on the other Mac

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  1. Install and open Recordstead on the new Mac.
  2. If you copied the folder with a disk or a network share, open Settings › Storage › Recordings storage first and set it as it was on the original Mac. Your settings are not in that folder, and the default rule removes local recordings of transcribed meetings after 7 days.
  3. Enter the code when Meetings found from another Mac appears, or in the Recordstead window if it says your meetings are locked, then click Unlock Meetings.

Your result: Recordstead restarts with your meetings.

Reconnect external recordings

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The copied folder does not include recordings already moved to an external destination. Preserve that archive too. After unlocking, reconnect the archive on the new Mac. The archive alone cannot recreate the library. S3 and SFTP passwords and keys stay in the original Mac's Keychain, so you may need to enter them again.

If you lost the code

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If you closed the sheet without clicking Done, get a code on the original Mac while it still works. After you click Done, Recordstead cannot show that code again or make a new one, and the copied library cannot be unlocked without it. Your meetings stay readable on the original Mac.

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