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July 19

Transfer Office 2019 from one computer to another

I tried to follow https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/can-office-2019-single-device-be-transferred-from/2a8b547c-d9ca-4994-bb6f-92b8fd47e201 to transfer Office 2019 from my old laptop to my new laptop. The old laptop "knew" my microsoft account but when I logged in, office.com said that there were no records in my subscriptions.

Any suggestions on how to transfer the programs to another laptop? -- SGBailey (talk) 11:06, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Are you sure the Microsoft account you refer to is the one that "owns" the copy of Office 2019? From what I understand Office 2019 can only generally be tied to one Microsoft account and you can't generally transfer it between Microsoft accounts. Depending how you set up your Office 2019 when you first used it, I don't think it's guaranteed that the account that "owns" Office 2019 is guaranteed to be the one that you use on your OS (assuming you're using a Microsoft account for Windows). Did you ever use another Microsoft account at the time you were setting up Office? Also how did you acquire Office as this this might affect things. [1] (Note that I'm assuming this Office is actually tied to a Microsoft account. If it's VLK Office 2019, then I don't think it would normally be and in any case you probably should be asking whoever is in charge of the volume licencing agreement for help setting up Office on the new computer.) Nil Einne (talk) 13:24, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Forgot to mention you might be able to look in the Office 2019 install on the older computer to see what Microsoft account it belongs to [2] but per the earlier link I'm not sure if this always works. Note even within Office I think you might need to be careful as I don't think you need to use the Microsoft account that "owns" the copy of Office for certain features like Onedrive tied to a Microsoft account and it's possible these might be what ytou are seeing rather than which account "owns" the Office 2019. Nil Einne (talk) 13:35, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Sounds plausible. I'll check. Thank you. -- SGBailey (talk) 22:00, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

I'm not totally sure what I did, but it did involve your steps above, but I got it transferred. Thank you. -- SGBailey (talk) 21:30, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Question about Git repositories

If I want to be able to mess with the revisions of a Git repository that I have cloned from a remote repository as much as I want without risking doing any damage to the remote repository itself, then would it suffice to copy the entire contents of my local repository to a new directory, or alternatively create a new directory and clone the repository from the remote repository again? As long as I only do pulls and pushes in my original local repository, not in this new local repository that I'm messing in, the remote repository should be safe, right? JIP | Talk 19:24, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

You can always modify the git clone, to remove the reference to the remote. git remote remove origin. That way you cannot accidentally push to that remote no matter what you do, everything you do will be local. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 19:49, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

In this case I want two copies of the local repository: one which I can keep in sync with the remote repository with pulls and pushes, and one I can freely mess around in. Can I do this by simply making a copy of my entire local repository and then doing git remote remove origin in the copy? JIP | Talk 19:55, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

yup, should work just fine. (This does assume the name of your remote is indeed origin. You can show the names of the remotes for that repository directory, by running git remote -v. You could also disable ONLY push, by doing git remote set-url --push origin no_push. This will break the url for the pushing to the remote origin, but your fetch remains intact, so you can still get the latests changes in that directory then. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:17, 19 July 2023 (UTC)