Saving your account file

Your Groove account (which is essentially a shared space) contains references to your other Groove shared spaces (the ones you join with other members) — it does not contain the shared space data itself. So when you save your Groove account file, you save ONLY references to your shared spaces. It's important to note that saving your account file does NOT also save any data that's stored in shared spaces. Thus, when you open Groove on a computer where you've downloaded your account information from another computer, you'll see all your shared spaces listed in the Shared Spaces tool, but you'll still need to retrieve their data from the originating computer before you can use them.

You can save your account file in the following ways:

This method lets you copy your account file to another computer without needing an Internet connection. For example, you might save your account file to a network file server, or even copy it to a floppy disk. You might also attach it to an email you send to yourself.

With this method, your account file is always available for downloading anywhere you have an Internet connection.

Saving your account to a file

  1. Open Account Preferences and click the Account tab.

  2. Click Save Account.

  3. Select Save as file . . .  to open the Save Account As... dialog box.

Specify the location where you'd like to save your account file, and click Save.

Uploading your account to Groove.net

  1. Open Account Preferences and click the Account tab.

  2. Click Save Account.

  3. Select Save to Groove.net.

Your default Web browser opens so that you can log in to Groove.net and display your Web services page. If you've never logged into Groove.net, you'll need to register with Groove.net before you can open your Web services page.

  1. Enter your email address and passphrase, and click Log in, or click Click here to register if you haven't registered yet.

If you click the Register link, you'll be prompted to fill out and submit registration information (including your email address and a passphrase of your choice), after which you'll still need to enter your email address and the passphrase you selected.

Once you log in successfully, the Groove.net Web site opens and displays a page with information about transferring your account. In addition, Groove displays the following notifications:

To see a link to your uploaded account on Groove.net, click "my Groove services" to display your Web services page.

See also

Managing your account information

About Groove accounts and identities

Opening your Groove services page on the Groove Web site

Transferring your Groove account from one computer to another