Moving tags to new PC

Questions
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Hi,

I am moving to a new computer and would like to transfer my settings, especially tags.
How do I do this? Where are they in Windows?

Best regards,

Egyed Serf

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I had the same problem and asked for that feature with exporting tags in March, too. Unfortunately t’s not possible yet. I really hope it gets implemented soon - I think it’s really one of the biggest flaws at the moment. :confused:

To export your fonts, you need to copy the root folder (where you have saved your fonts in the fontbase folder) and copy that to the same place on your new computer.

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Thank you,
but copying the root folder does not solve my problem. FontBase stores the tags somewhere else.
So my question is still valid for FonBase staff.

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Some extra information.
I store my root folder on OneDrive. After re-syncing on the new machine, the tags still disappeared.
I have a full backup of the old PC, so if I knew the exact location of the tags, I could copy them over to the new one.

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Hello @srf, thank your post, welcome to the forum and sorry for the delay.
All in-app data is stored locally at (if you’re on Windows) “C:\Users{username}\AppData\Roaming\FontBase\IndexedDB”
Copying this folder over on the new machine should do what you described. Be careful, if you’ve been using the newly installed app and have some data in it, copying the old database will overwrite all the existing data. So, if you can, make a copy of your current database (same folder location).
Unfortunately tags are not stored as separate files, so as of now they cannot be imported/exported on their own.
Hope this helps,
Yuriy
FontBase Dev Team

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Hello Yuriy,

thank you very much!
There is a disk image of my previous pc and copying the databases it works fine!
THX!

srf

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Hi guys,

I want also move/clone my font library to an other pc. The method works not so really good for me. If I copy the IndexedDB it can no show more the preview of the fonts. It shows only squares. How can I fix it or do you have an new method to import/copy my tags from the fonts?

Kind regards

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Hello Ricardo, thank you for your post and welcome to the forum :pray:
To make an exact copy you would first need to replicate your font folder structure, i.e. make sure your folders and fonts (that you had added to FontBase) are in the same place as they were on the old machine. Copying the IndexedDB after this should work, as the data within the app will correspond to the actual folder and font locations.
As for the new method for importing/copying tags - there are none for now as far as I know :pensive:

Hope this helps :pray:
Thank you again,

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Yes, now it works perfectly. It must copy the complete folder “C:\Users{username}\AppData\Roaming\FontBase\IndexedDB” and the font folder must be the same as before.

Thanks

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