Possible to change backed-up drive to a vault?

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#1

Hi all

I have Mylio installed on a Win10 laptop, with 1 other vault set up on an external USB drive - I’ll call that external drive USB1. USB1 is backed up (using GoodSync) to another external USB drive - I’ll call that drive USB2.
USB1 drive is beginning to fail and is randomly disconnecting from the laptop. I’d like to set up USB2 as a vault and disconnect/throw away USB1. Is there a way to do this quickly, bearing in mind that all the files in the vault in USB1 are replicated on USB2? I really don’t want to set up a vault on USB2 from scratch, as I have over 200,000 files in the vault and past experience tells me it will take several days for Mylio to set up a new vault from scratch on a new external USB drive. Anyone got any thoughts on this?

#2

I haven’t had this exact scenario but when I did a clean install on my computer awhile back, there was an option to restore Mylio using a device that holds originals…

Not sure if that would be helpful in your case, but I’m thinking this might be a way to get Mylio to use the files you already have.

#3

If USB2 is truly an exact up-to-date replica of USB1 - then it seems like you should just be able to plug it in and Mylio should see it as the same Vault device (eg, it contains the same “Mylio_XXXXXX” folder). Assuming that you can assign it the same drive letter as USB1 had.

#4

Hi jimre
Thank you. Mylio is now seeing the vault on the new drive and it all seems to be working fine. It has saved a lot of sync time! Interestingly, it doesn’t seem to matter that the drive letter is different - the name of the new drive does need to be the same as the old drive and the Mylio_XXXXXX folder needs to be in the root of the drive.
Many thanks for your help!

#5

Hi katie180
Many thanks for taking the time to reply - I appreciate your help and kindness. The problem has now been solved (see reply below to jimre).

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