When upgrading to a new system or reinstalling Calman, preserving your existing data ensures a smooth transition and prevents the loss of important configurations. This guide provides a step-by-step approach to backing up and transferring your Calman data, including essential files and settings that maintain your workflow efficiency.

By following this guide, you will learn how to backup and migrate:

• Custom Workflows
  • Personalized workflows you’ve designed for specific calibration needs. (Calman Ultimate only)
• Reports
  • Saved reports used for documentation and analysis.
• Meter Profiles
  • Custom display profiles for specific meter hardware
  • Note: Due to hardware limitations, some profiles may not work when transferred. In this case you will need to create a new profile using a spectroradiometer
• Saved Sessions
  • Previously completed calibration sessions for reference.
• Custom Levels, Colorspaces, and Targets
  • User-defined calibration parameters.
• Calibration Database
  • A record of all past calibrations for tracking and comparison.

Backup Personal Data

• Backup Calman personal data (Custom Workflows, Reports, Meter Profiles, Saved Sessions)
  1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to \Documents\Portrait Displays\
  2. Copy the Calman {YOURVERSIONNAME} folder to another location, like your desktop

• Backup calibration database
  1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\ProgramData\Portrait Displays\Calman 5 {YOURVERSIONNAME}\Data\
  2. Copy the Calibrations.s3db file to another location, like your desktop

• Backup Calman custom data (Levels, Colorspaces, Targets)
  1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\ProgramData\Portrait Displays\Calman 5 {YOURVERSIONNAME}\
  2. Copy the Configfolder to another location, like your desktop

Install Calman on the new Computer

• Download and install Calman from the Portrait Displays downloads page

Before launching Calman for the first time

• Restore the calibration database
  1. Copy the Calibrations.s3db file you backed up above
  2. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\ProgramData\Portrait Displays\Calman 5 for Business\Data\
  3. Overwrite the default Calibrations.s3db file in the Data folder

Important: Do not overwrite the folders created by the Calman with the folders you backed up. The contents of the specific folders should be restored as followed.

• Restore Calman custom data (Levels, Colorspaces, Targets)
  1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the location where you copied the Config folder earlier
  2. Copy the contents of the backed-up Config folder into the new C:\ProgramData\Portrait Displays\Calman 5 for Business\Config folder, overwriting any default files

• Restore Custom Workflows.
  1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the location where you copied the \Documents\Portrait Displays\Calman folder at the beginning of this article
  2. Open the copied Workflows folder
  3. Move any customized workflows to the new \Documents\Portrait Displays\Calman for Business\Workflows folder

• Restore Custom Reports
  1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the location where you copied the \Documents\Portrait Displays\Calman folder at the beginning of this article
  2. Open the copied Reports folder
  3. Move any customized reports to the new \Documents\Portrait Displays\Calman for Business\Reports folder

• Restore Meter Profiles
  1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the location where you copied the \Documents\Portrait Displays\Calman folder at the beginning of this article
  2. Open the copied Profiles folder
  3. Move any customized profiles to the new \Documents\Portrait Displays\Calman for Business\Profiles folder

• Restore Calman Settings
  • NOTE: Restoring this file may cause a few errors on the first launch of Calman, due to file location changes. These can be safely dismissed
    1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the location where you copied the \Documents\Portrait Displays\Calman folder at the beginning of this article
    2. Move the settings.ccfx to the new \Documents\Portrait Displays\Calman\, overwriting the default one placed by the installer

• Using Calman 2019 saved sessions
  1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the location where you copied the \Documents\Portrait Displays\Calman folder at the beginning of this article
  2. Open the copied CDFs folder
  3. Move any customized reports to the new \Documents\Portrait Displays\Calman\CDFs folder

Launching Calman for the first time

• Calman will need to be relicensed using your existing License ID and Password
  • Activating a Calman License
• If you transferred a Settings.s3db file from Calman 2019, you may see errors regarding missing file locations. These were caused by the location changes addressed above and can be dismissed.