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

[XY-Newbie]

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?

Regards

[highend]

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

[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]

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...)

[XY-Newbie]

Hey thanks again,

I gotta admit that I didn't quite catch most of the things you explained, I'm not that tech-savy.

So, I'm basically trying to find a method/process to regularly create a backup of a PDF library I created on my windows PC, drive C:, including the tags and XYplorer settings, on a different drive (D:).

Each drive (C: and D:) is supposed to have its own XYplorer installation, the library, the tags and my XYplorer settings. The folder structure for the XYplorer installation and the library is gonne be exactly the same on both drives. Drive D: is supposed to be used on a PC without a XYplorer installation. I basically just want to plug drive D: into my windows PC, synchronize it with my windows PC drive (C:) XYplorer+Library Folder, and be able to use the external drive (D:) on a different device, without having to install XYplorer on that device, and now having access to the same library, tags and XYplorer settings I created on my main PC drive (C:).

I was trying to use FreeFileSync to simply "update" the whole folder on my external drive (D:) base on the changes I did to the folder system on the PC drive (C:). This does update the files in the library, but it does not update/transfer the tags, and it doesn't seem to update the changes I made to the settings/properties of my PC drive (C:) XYplorer installation. This is propably due to a different drive letter.

What would a simple, repeatable process look like for everytime I want to mirror my C: to my D:, in a way that makes D: usable on a different device, with tags, settings etc.? Thanks for your help.