By Joe_Smith on

I have Acquia Dev Desktop installed on an Apple Mac. I would like to permanently move my development to another Apple Mac. Both Macs are running the same OS. How do I transfer all my sites (there are many), the stacks and any other Acquia files reliably and easily? To clarify: I understand how to move an individual site to a host server so I'm not asking for that.

I tried to copy the site files and the stack files into the same directories on the new Mac: the Acquia Dev Desktop Control Panel opens, Apache Web Server starts but the MySQL Database Server failed to start.

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cfox612 commented

I'd try downloading a new copy of the Dev Desktop and setting up one site. Then you should have more luck copy/pasting files over.

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Joe_Smith commented

Is this the only way? I have a lot of sites and have a few different installations of Acquia too. To set up each site, I would have to export/import the databases for every single site one at a time.

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cfox612 commented

Looks like you can browse through finder to the application and get to the mysql folder. Did you copy all of that over as well? If that's still not working I would do a new install, then copy over the contents of the mysql folder along with sites and see if that works.

Did you keep the folder structure the same?