Computer meltdown

[cnw1970]

I had a capacitor blow in my old computer and melt part of my motherboard. All I can say is thank God for my external hard drive!! I have installed TS from Steam, which ended up being a 21.6 GB download. So I have TS and all my DLC from DTG. I had a lot of third party reskins, enhancements etc., all of which were saved on my external hard drive. My question is, can I just merge my back up asset folder to the asset folder in my newly downloaded copy of TS??? Can it be this simple, or do I have to reinstall everything one by one? Any advise would be greatly appreciated!!

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

I had a capacitor blow in my old computer and melt part of my motherboard. All I can say is thank God for my external hard drive!! I have installed TS from Steam, which ended up being a 21.6 GB download. So I have TS and all my DLC from DTG. I had a lot of third party reskins, enhancements etc., all of which were saved on my external hard drive. My question is, can I just merge my back up asset folder to the asset folder in my newly downloaded copy of TS??? Can it be this simple, or do I have to reinstall everything one by one? Any advise would be greatly appreciated!!

You can copy your old Assets and Routes folders over the new ones, but you'd better not have Explorer overwrite the new assets with the old ones.

That way only the stuff that was NOT present on your fresh install gets copied.

Still, you might get version conflicts and all kinds of side effects resulting from that.

If you really want to play safe, compare the contents of each provider folder in your assets folders and copy them over one by one, again NOT overwriting your new assets.

It also gives you the change to get rid of the junk that may have accumulated in your old install on the external HD.

[buzz456]

Before getting into all that is you external hard drive some thing like a Western Digital My Passport Ultra? If it is they provide instructions of how to restore your backed up stuff without goofing anything else up and you can do it with just a few clicks.

[Antwerp]

I may not be understanding all of this, but was your original HDD destroyed along with the MoBo? All I see is a MoBo replacement, not a HDD one.

And if you just got a new computer, you could just move the old HDD to the new computer.


EDIT: I am so sorry, that says March, not April....