New computer success

After a certain amount of physical difficulties that I will probably pay for, the new computer is in place and working.

The biggest problem was getting all the USB and other connectors plugged in. I couldn't do it from the front without climbing on my desk, and I didn't want to chance that.

I have a U-shaped desk that I love (courtesy of Freecycle many years ago). Unfortunately, getting behind it is not impossible, but quite difficult, partly because of actual lack of room and partly because too many things tend to accumulate in that narrow space. But I managed to slither under and stand up again and get everything plugged in.

Before I reversed the process, I moved the monitor so I could see it, and pressed the "on" button. Nothing happened. Brief panic ensued, but it had been working just fine in the previous location, so I investigated. Turns out there's a hard on-off switch next to the power plug. I hadn't done anything with it before, but I tried switching it to the other position. Then I tried the "on" button again. Success!

I have a newish larger monitor that I was using on the new computer while I was setting everything up, but I'm not sure the extra space is actually worth the annoyance that all the windows want to be 19 inches wide. So for now I'm leaving the old one in place.

The printer driver appears to have installed itself without any fuss, just the way plug-and-play is supposed to work.

And it turns out that I hadn't put my Dreamwidth password in my password database, and I didn't remember it correctly (the browser remembered it for me on the old computer). So I had to do a password reset, which is probably a good idea in any case. And yes, it's now in the password database (Password Safe).

I'm sure I'll find other minor issues to deal with, but the most annoying (albeit supremely minor) one is that Windows 10's handling of color themes is different than Windows 7's, and as a result, the negative highlight color (not the text, the color behind the text) for selected messages in Eudora is a medium blue instead of the very dark blue that it was in Windows 7. It's almost the same color as a label that I use for a different purpose, so it's annoyingly confusing. I think I might be able to change it with a registry hack, but I hate having to deal with registry stuff.

In the meantime, working is now physically much more comfortable. And wow, this computer is fast compared to the old one.

AKICIDW: Any Calibre mavens out there?

When I installed Calibre on the new computer, I accepted all the defaults.

When I moved over the files a couple of days later, my 900+ books in Calibre didn't show up. Turns out that's because I didn't use the default for my book files back on my old computer. The files are there, but Calibre isn't seeing them. Possibly I could tell Calibre to use the other location, but the default location is actually more sensible. (The old one was buried a couple of levels down.)

I discovered by experimentation that moving a book folder from the old location to the new location and restarting Calibre doesn't make that book show up.

My instincts, which are not necessarily to be trusted, say I should do a mass import of books from the old location to the new location, then delete the old location entirely. But I've always done imports one or two books at a time, and I'm not sure if all those author folders will sort themselves out properly.

Any advice before I try it?

ETA: Migration successfully accomplished, thanks to timill.