Syncovery Support Forum

Hi,

I did a cursory review of the tech articles and the forum, but didn't easily find the answer. I was wondering if there are instructions for how to migrate settings over to a new OS installation.

I have a new Windows 11 drive on my same computer as Windows 10. All of my local drives and network drives are mapped to the same drive letters and my cloud storage credentials should be the same.

I wanted to start running all the Syncovery jobs just as before, but under the new Windows 11 OS. I believe all the sync settings are stored in the profiles.ini file under "Program Files" but I was wondering if there was a formal write up or process on how to migrate these settings.

Thanks is advance.

Hello,
the settings are actually in the hidden folder You could copy all Ini files over to the other machine.

But with the default settings, cloud access tokens and passwords, including encryption passwords, will be lost. The reason is that Syncovery encrypts these in such a way that if somebody steals your config files, they won't be able to use them to access your cloud storage or decrypt your files on another machine.

If you plan to dual-boot between the two operating systems, it is better to make an indepdent cloud connection on the new OS, if you have clouds that use the OAuth2 mechanism (where the authorization is done in a browser and Syncovery gets an access token rather than your password).

If you do need to keep your passwords when copying the config files over, you first need to ensure they are encrypted with weak legacy encryption, which is portable. You can choose it on the Program Settings dialog, first tab sheet under "Configuration File Safety".