New notebook

    • I would like to install and start using my new notebook, but I’m unsure about the individual steps. I have saved my data (files, photos, music) in the myCloud, but I work on my old notebook with data from file explorer, which it constantly synchronizes to the cloud.

    My plan:

    1. myCloud Install desktop on new notebook.

    2. Wait until my data is on the desktop of the new notebook.

    3. Work

    4. Resetting the old notebook and this is exactly where I’m afraid I’m doing something wrong, because the reset deletes the data (synchronization) in the cloud and therefore also on my new notebook. Correctly?

    For me, this would be the easiest and most logical way to achieve my goal. I have a weekly backup (Windows) or also copied all the files onto two external hard drives, but the method via myCloud seems to me to be the most logical, the only question is the deletion on an old notebook.

    Thank you very much for a suitable schedule so that nothing goes wrong.

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    • After all the data is on the new notebook, I would uninstall MyCloud Desktop on the old notebook. This does not delete any data and prevents anything from being synchronized, i.e. data deleted on the old notebook from also being deleted on the new one.

    After all the data is on the new notebook, I would uninstall MyCloud Desktop on the old notebook. This does not delete any data and prevents anything from being synchronized, i.e. data deleted on the old notebook from also being deleted on the new one.

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    You can simply turn off the ‘myCloud Automatically start Desktop’ switch in the settings and then close myCloud Desktop.

    If you want to log out completely, you can run ‘Link to another account’.

    Nothing is lost, but I would still back up the data separately.

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    Perfect, that would have been the solution too. I had already uninstalled the app, now I am separated from myCloud and can therefore delete the data on the old notebook.

    I thank you.

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