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Hey gang,
Title says it all. I had a Studio 16 installation on Win8.1, but the motherboard in that machine died.
Can someone direct me to a tutorial on how to move all projects to the new machine, please?

Also, is there any way to avoid using the Resolve database system for projects? Other programs (DAWs, etc) store the individual project files in whatever folder you want. Would be nice to have that option with Resolve.

All the best,
Dax.

This is why you should make the occasional database backup.

It's also why, for any important projects that last more than a day, you should make Project Export .drps each day, and store them off the system.

There is no way to avoid using a database. That's how the system is designed. But if you want individual files per project, make Project Export drp files. As mentioned above.

If the hard drive is still intact, you should be able to do a fresh Resolve install on a new system with a new hard drive, and then copy the project data from the old hard drive to the new.

If you never had a version of Resolve older than 16 on the system, then the default project database info will be here:

C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Resolve Disk Database\Resolve Projects\Users\guest where XXXX is your Windows User name.

Copy that guest folder into the same place on the new Resolve install (overwriting the guest folder that's already there on the new drive).

If you DID have a Resolve version older than 16.0 on the system at any point, then your default database info will be here:

C:\ProgramData\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Resolve Disk Database\Resolve Projects\Users\guest

You'd want to copy this guest folder and replace the guest folder in the user specific path on the new drive, same as above:

C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Resolve Disk Database\Resolve Projects\Users\guest

Thanks Dwaine, the steps you gave were absolutely perfect. Database successfully migrated.

All the best,
Dax.