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This page introduces you a third-party free Windows 10 file transfer tool to help with fast, safe, convenient program files, users files, documents/music/picture/app files transfer from Windows Vista, XP, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 to Windows 10 PC with ease, even though Windows 10 does not include Windows 10 Easy Transfer program any longer.

WeTransfer is the simplest way to send your files around the world. Share large files up to 2GB for free.
Upload your files to cloud storage. Uploading files to cloud storage is a great way to transfer.

FTP or File transfer protocol is an old school way to transfer files. FTP is a TCP/IP protocol that transfers files between FTP servers and clients. FTP was designed specifically for transferring large files. All you need to do to start using the protocol is an FTP client.

Why You Need Windows 10 File Transfer Tool

Windows users, especially those of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, get very familiar with Windows Easy Transfer, an extremely easy-to-use and powerful Windows files and settings transfer program. But Microsoft dismissed the free utility ever since you upgraded to Windows 10. Instead, it's replaced by PCmover Express, which is not freely offered.

Is there any other free alternative for Windows Easy Transfer in Windows 10? The answer is YES, and the recommendation goes to EaseUS Todo PCTrans, a third-party Windows 10 easy file transfer wizard, with which Windows users can perform the following tasks:

1. Transfer program files, user data files between PCs; i.e., Transfer OS, data, files, software from an old computer to a new computer.

2. Transfer application files between local hard disks within one PC; i.e., Safely transfer programs from C drive to D drive in Windows 10.

3. Transfer program files, user data files from previous Windows OS to new Windows OS after Windows in-place upgrade. i.e., Windows 7 to Windows 10 easy transfer.

How to Use the Recommended Windows 10 File Transfer Wizard

EaseUS Todo PCTrans allows users to transfer all types of files in three modes: PC to PC, Image Transfer, and App Migration. The three modes can be best applied in the following situations.

Transfer from PC to PC

Applicable to two PCs in the same LAN; from lower Windows operating system to a higher one; with the constant network connection.

Guide: Run Todo PCTrans on both of the two PCs and choose 'PC to PC'. Windows file transfer wizard will automatically detect the other PC, or manually connect the other PC by clicking '+' icon and input IP address. After successfully connecting the two PCs, select the application, files, and folders to start the transfer.

Image Transfer

Applicable to file transfer within one PC or two PCs without requiring the network connection, and versions of Windows operating system.

Guide:Launch Todo PCTrans, click 'Image Transfer' and choose folders, program files to create an image file for the source computer (you can create the image file to an external storage device). Copy the image file to the target computer. On another computer or a new system, run Todo PCTrans, choose 'Recover an Image File', you can restore the image to a new environment.

App Migration

Applicable to large-size application files, games files transfer from one drive to another, especially for the case that C drive shows low disk space warning, and you need to free up some space for it.

Guide: Launch Todo PCTrans and choose 'App Migration'. All movable applications will be listed and be marked as 'Yes'. Choose applications that you want to transfer, and specify a location at 'Transfer to'. Click 'Transfer' to move the selected applications.

Table of Contents

Overview
Important notes about account transfers from Plesk
IP address transfers
How to transfer and restore multiple accounts
Remote server information
Authentication
Security
Advanced
The Account List interface
Accounts
Packages
Service Configurations
The transfer process
Live Transfer

Table of Contents

Overview
Important notes about account transfers from Plesk
IP address transfers
How to transfer and restore multiple accounts
Remote server information
Authentication
Security
Advanced
The Account List interface
Accounts
Packages
Service Configurations
The transfer process
Live Transfer

Transfer Tool

Valid for versions 94 through the latest version

Last modified: April 12, 2021

Overview

This interface copies multiple accounts from a remote server to your cPanel & WHM server. To transfer accounts, you must obtain the following:

root-level privileges with the su or sudo commands.

Do not shut down or restart any processes on either server during the transfer and restoration process.
Do not start a transfer during a system update (upcp) or start a system update during a transfer. The system update will fail.
The Transfer Tool feature replaces the source server’s files with the target server’s zone files when the following conditions are true:
- The target server resides in the same Domain Name System (DNS) cluster as the source server.
- The source server and the DNS nodes use the Synchronized Changes DNS role.
For more information about DNS clusters, read our DNS Cluster documentation.
The Transfer Tool feature does not transfer the DNS zone templates. If custom DNS zone templates exist on the remote server, the system ignores these zone templates when it recreates the account on the destination server. For more information, read the transfer process section below.
You must remove Domain Server (DS) records from the domain registrar before you transfer a domain that uses DNSSEC. After you transfer the domain, you need to re-add the DS records to the registrar for the domain. For more information about the process, read the DNSSEC key transfer section of our DNSSEC documentation.
Account transfers process AAAA records differently than A records.
The target server will not alter AAAA records that point to servers other than the source server or servers related to the source.
A target server without IPv6 enabled will strip locally-managed AAAA records that pointed to the source server.
A target server with IPv6 enabled will point any source-related AAAA record to the account’s shared IPv6 address in the domain’s locally-managed zone file.
In cPanel & WHM version 70 and later, the server disregards the Restrict document roots to public_htmlTweak Setting setting during server transfers. The transfer tool retains any pre-transfer public_html/ directory structures, even those that place addon and subdomains document roots outside of the primary website’s document root. However, after the transfer, addon and subdomains that the restored user creates will adhere to this setting.
Do not use the skip-name-resolve setting in your server’s MySQL® configuration. This setting can cause problems on any server. It will create more problems on remote MySQL servers during account transfers.
The source and target servers must be able to communicate over port 2087 to use this feature. For more information about the ports that cPanel & WHM uses, read our How to Configure Your Firewall for cPanel & WHM Services documentation.
Due to networking requirements, you cannot run an IPv6-only cPanel & WHM server. You must have at least one IPv4 address.
This feature does not transfer Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) configuration information for an account. The user will need to reconfigure 2FA on the new server.

If you experience problems with session timeouts, increase the number of seconds in the Number of seconds an SSH connection related to an account transfer may be inactive before timing out setting in the System section

File Transer Tool