Step by step.
Using your account on another computer
You can add your account to other computers on which the Groove software is
installed, and your workspaces will be synchronized across your computers. As
a guideline, it's strongly recommended that you add your account to no more
than 5 computers.
Note: Your Groove administrator may have set policies for your account that
restrict you from adding it to other computers.
To add your account to another computer, you must do the following tasks:
Save your account file, and make it available for use on the other computer.
Run the account configuration wizard on the other computer, and select the
saved account file.
Saving your account file
When you save your account file, you can opt to send it automatically to
yourself as a file attachment in an email, or save it to disk locally for
copying to other computers.
Select File-Use Account on Another Computer.
Follow the instructions for saving your account to a file.
Click OK.
Adding your account on another computer via a saved account file
Once you've saved your account file and made the file available on another
computer, you can use the Account Configuration Wizard to add your account on
the other computer.
Install and start Groove.
In the Account Configuration Wizard, select Use a Groove Account you have
already created.
Click Add My Account.
Select an option for adding your account.
Click I saved my account to a file if you have local access to your account
file. Click the Browse button, navigate to the location where you placed the
saved account file and click Open.
Click I e-mailed my account file to myself if the saved account file is in
your e-mail program's inbox. If this is the case, click Finish, go to your
email, and double-click the .grv file attached to the e-mail.
The Groove Login window should now display allowing you to log in to your
account. Once you log in, you can proceed to download your workspace data.
You download workspace data from another computer or workspace member after
you restore your Groove account from a backup or log in to your account on
another computer.
References to your workspaces appear in the Launchbar or the Workspace List
and are categorized under "Not On This Computer" if you're sorting the list
by status. Regardless of your sort option, the icon for these workspaces
appears dimmed.
Icon for workspace on this computer.
Icon for workspace on other computers.
To download workspace data:
Select the workspace you want in the list.
In the Common Tasks pane, click Get Workspace.
The workspace gets downloaded to your computer if any of the following
conditions are true:
Groove is currently online on another computer on which you have your
account and this workspace.
Another workspace member is online and running Groove.
Groove will always download the workspace from one of your other computers
(if available) before downloading from another workspace member. If there are
currently no other computers or workspace members from which to download the
workspace, the request will stay queued until one or the other is available.
Note: If the selected workspace was created in a version of Groove prior to
Groove 2007, you see a Get Workspace From... drop-down menu with options to
get the workspace from another computer or workspace member.
