In the meantime, I discovered that the woefully inadequate hard disk on the old machine is very full, so I uninstalled all the older versions of Cubase and Wavelab from the computer. At this point, there's about 20 GB free, which will be ok for a while. I could probably go back and delete some of the installers too, which would help.
I keep getting things accomplished over vacation. They just aren't the things that I had necessarily planned to accomplish...