Can you transfer labels & tags to a different computer / XYplorer installment?

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XY-Newbie
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Can you transfer labels & tags to a different computer / XYplorer installment?

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Is there a way to move the labels and tags from one installed XYplorer version to another? Like if I have XYplorer on two different PC's and I want the labels and tags I created on one PC to show up on the other as well when moving my files to that PC, how would I go about achieving this?

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highend
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Re: Can you transfer labels & tags to a different computer / XYplorer installment?

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By copying over your tag.dat from the <xydata> folder.
Requirement: The files / folders copied over must be in the exact same path as before
So:
Src Path = D:\this is the root of everything
Dst Path = D:\somewhere else
or
Dst Path = E:\this is the root of everything

= Wouldn't work (without modifying the tag.dat file)

And continuously syncing files / folders (both pcs on the same network) tag entries would require an enterprise license but allows a different src / dst path
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XY-Newbie
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Re: Can you transfer labels & tags to a different computer / XYplorer installment?

Post by XY-Newbie »

Thanks, so does that mean I cant transfer the tag file to a different drive, because the path would change? I don't quite get it

Norn
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Re: Can you transfer labels & tags to a different computer / XYplorer installment?

Post by Norn »

If your new machine doesn't have the same drivers, my thoughts:
1)
Back up the configuration files.
Search for all items containing tags and labels, then copy(Not move) them to D:\Tagged and keep the folder structure. Finally, copy D:\Tagged and XYplorer to the new machine and continue using them.
(You can remove orphaned tags on your new PC.)

2)
If all drives are NTFS, you could use a script to write the tags and labels to the ADS, then back them up to the new PC with FreeFileSync (which will copy the ADS AFAIK, Or use FastCopy and check AltStream), and then use a script on the new PC to read from the ADS and add the tags and labels.
(But I haven't actually used those scripts yet...)
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