Advanced migration options
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## Advanced migration options

Advanced options are available for migrating from CrossOver Games. To access these features, expand the 'Advanced Controls' section of the 'Migrate' window, as shown below.

Expanding the advanced controls gives you a list containing each bottle CrossOver finds in CrossOver Games. For each bottle in the list, you can click on the drop-down menu to the right of the bottle's name to select one of three options for how CrossOver will treat the bottle during import.

CrossOver can handle a bottle in one of three ways during migration. The options are shown below.

Move to CrossOver. This option will move the bottle from CrossOver Games to CrossOver. If you select this option, the bottle will no longer be available to CrossOver Games after the operation is complete. This option is the fastest and will not use extra disk space. This is the default option.

Copy to CrossOver. This option will copy the bottle from CrossOver Games into CrossOver, leaving the original in place. When this operation is complete, two separate copies of the bottle will exist: one in CrossOver Games and another in CrossOver. This operation may take a long time for a large bottle. Also, having two copies of the bottle means twice as much disk space will be used.

The 'Copy to CrossOver' option is useful if you want to test whether your application runs better in CrossOver or CrossOver Games. In almost all cases, you will want to use CrossOver, because CrossOver Games is obsolete. However, in rare cases, some applications may continue to work best with CrossOver Games, and you can use this to fine-tune how CrossOver migrates your software.

If you choose to copy a bottle and later decide that you only want to use it with CrossOver, and never again with CrossOver Games, you can safely go into your old CrossOver Games application and delete the bottle from there to save disk space. Your new copy inside of CrossOver will not be impacted.

Ignore. This option tells CrossOver to ignore the bottle during migration. The bottle will be neither copied nor moved to CrossOver.

CrossOver will not be able to use any bottles you choose to ignore during migration. They will continue to be available in CrossOver Games.

Do not ask at startup. Checking this box will cause CrossOver to stop asking about migration of CrossOver Games bottles when it launches.

If you check this box but later want to migrate games bottles, you can access the bottle migration tool at any time by navigating to CrossOver's 'Configure' menu and choosing 'Migrate CrossOver Games Bottles'. If that menu option is not present, it means CrossOver has not detected any CrossOver Games bottles available for migration.

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