Migrate TweetDeck Settings To Another PC
The Online Tech Tips blog writes up how to migrate your TweetDeck settings from one PC to another, but the same principles should work for many applications based on the Adobe AIR platform.
The popular and previously mentioned TweetDeck Twitter client, like many Adobe AIR applications, doesn’t let you import or export your settings for re-use on another computer. The Online Tech Tips guide walks you through finding the hidden application folder for TweetDeck and copying the files to another machine—the path for Windows users is usually found at:
C:Documents and SettingsusernameApplication DataTweetDeckFast.[large number]Local Store
To migrate the settings, you can simply copy the files in the folder to the equivalent folder on the other machine—which should, in theory, also work to migrate from Windows to Linux or Mac (though the paths will be different). The same principles work for many other applications that store their data under the hidden Application Data folder—you can usually just copy the files from one machine to another.
Hit the link for the full walk-through, or check out ten applications worth installing Adobe AIR for.
How to transfer TweetDeck settings between two computers [Online Tech Tips]
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It should be noted that you can quickly get to the "Application Data" folder by typing %appdata% in the address bar in Windows Explorer.
Also some applications may be installed for all users, so substitute "All Users" instead of "username" in the long path mentioned in the article to see what application settings are stored there.
zkam
It should be noted that you can quickly get to the "Application Data" folder by typing %appdata% in the address bar in Windows Explorer.
Also some applications may be installed for all users, so substitute "All Users" instead of "username" in the long path mentioned in the article to see what application settings are stored there.
zkam
It should be noted that you can quickly get to the "Application Data" folder by typing %appdata% in the address bar in Windows Explorer.
Also some applications may be installed for all users, so substitute "All Users" instead of "username" in the long path mentioned in the article to see what application settings are stored there.
zkam
Just FYI, an official sync solution for TweetDeck is being developed which will keep your groups etc in sync across multiple machines.... "Coming soon" :)
Richard Barley
Just FYI, an official sync solution for TweetDeck is being developed which will keep your groups etc in sync across multiple machines.... "Coming soon" :)
Richard Barley
For Ubuntu, and possibly other linux users you can run this command.
tar czf TweetdeckSettings.tar.gz ~/.appdata/TweetDeckFast.*
William Franklin Pearson
For Ubuntu, and possibly other linux users you can run this command.
tar czf TweetdeckSettings.tar.gz ~/.appdata/TweetDeckFast.*
William Franklin Pearson
This has been discussed in TweetDeck's official feedback forum as well. As a matter of fact, I submitted (basically) the same solution for Windows 3 months ago. To be fair, though, someone else had figured it out for OSX first... and I used that information to track down the files in Windows.
[tweetdeck.uservoice.com]
Burianski
This has been discussed in TweetDeck's official feedback forum as well. As a matter of fact, I submitted (basically) the same solution for Windows 3 months ago. To be fair, though, someone else had figured it out for OSX first... and I used that information to track down the files in Windows.
[tweetdeck.uservoice.com]
Burianski
Anyone else notice someone in the screenshot asking about BangBros.com?
Jynormous
Or better yet check out this post: http://h0bbel.p0ggel.org/howto-sync-settings-between-multiple-twe... And further in there my comment an doing the same with a Mac. I am able to use one set of preference files from many computers this way, and it works like a charm.
HunterCeler
TweetDeck met its match. Tweetie for Mac is fantastic.
WaggonerCabbichoke
Thanks! This is exactly what I wanted to do! By the time I finished writing the post, I was trying to figure out a way to have everything synced automatically. Appreciate it.@HunterCeler:
@Jynormous: That was a serious oversight on my part!
@Jynormous: That was a serious oversight on my part!
@Jynormous: That was a serious oversight on my part!
@Jynormous: I swapped out the screenshot now - next time I shouldn't use screenshots from the linked article! Thanks for pointing it out though =)
@Jynormous: I swapped out the screenshot now - next time I shouldn't use screenshots from the linked article! Thanks for pointing it out though =)
@Richard Barley: That will be interesting. More apps should provide that functionality.
@Richard Barley: That will be interesting. More apps should provide that functionality.