Editing a .reg file

[mizzy]

Hi all,

I'm moving SOME shares from one server to another. Unfortunatley, the moved shares will also be on a new drive letter. (Both servers Windows 2003)

I thought, simple enough, I'll export the shares section of the registry (on the source server) and edit the resulting .reg file...removing the shares I don't need and changing location of the shares being moved. (pointing to the correct drive letter). Then import said .reg file to new server. Eh volia!

Unfortunatley when I open the reg file (using notepad) all I can see is HEX. I've come across a clunky solution but was wondering am I missing a trick...is there some sort of advanced editor for .reg files out there? converting the HEX to readable information which I can edit and save. I cannot find anything on the net.

Thanks in advance.

 

[itsp1965]

Instead of modifying the registry why don't you use SCOPY which will recreate your shares when copying files over.

 

[GrimR]

Why not script it

'Disconnect mapeed drives to \\server1\share to
'\\serverNew\share Using the same drive letter
'Find All the Drives Mapped to a Share and Remap Them
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
Set colDrives = objNetwork.EnumNetworkDrives

For i = 0 to colDrives.Count-1 Step 2
    If colDrives.Item(i + 1) = "\\server1\share" Then
        strDriveLetter = colDrives.Item(i)
        objNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive strDriveLetter
        objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive strDriveLetter, "\\server2\share"
    End If
Next

 

[mizzy]

Hi Guys,

Spoke to a few chaps here. Complete change of plan, using the move as an oppertunity to clean things up! Shares being zapped and recreated. It's is an interesting question though...btw I was going to use robocopy to move the data...I may have changed to scopy to sort it out.

Again thanks for your asistance especially the bit of vbcode.

Regards