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Issue and feature request tracking for the Multitouch app
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Gesture configuration aka save aka settings file path #135

Closed ivribalko closed 1 year ago

ivribalko commented 1 year ago

Hello Ryan!

Thank you for the amazing app!

I would like to know where the configuration file for the gestures is stored.

I'd like to back it up manually and transfer between different computers. I can't quite use iCloud because I have different accounts on those computers and I don't think there's a way to download the config from https://www.icloud.com?

rxhanson commented 1 year ago

Here's a short wiki page I made about this: https://github.com/rxhanson/Multitouch-Community/wiki/Transferring-Multitouch-Settings-to-a-Different-Mac

Let me know if you have any issues.

ivribalko commented 1 year ago

Thanks!

I think changing ~/Library/Preferences/com.brassmonkery.Multitouch.plist only works when the app's not installed.

If I quit Multitouch and make a change to the settings file (or remove it altogether) and restart the app - all my settings are preserved in the app as if I did no changes even though I can see that the contents of the settings file are different from before. Settings are preserved even if I remove the app before editing the settings file and re-install it afterwards.

And if I place the settings file to the right place beforehand and install Multitouch onto a machine that never had it installed then transferred settings are correctly read and applied.

Is there a settings cache somewhere that I could purge? I've tried to find /Users/ -iname "*multitouch*" 2>/dev/null everything but so far was not able to get it to read the changed settings file.

ivribalko commented 1 year ago

OK, I've figured out couple more things. Like it says it only stores gestures in iCloud. Also manual settings file changes get applied only after computer restart (restarting the app is not enough). So in order to successfully restore all settings including gestures what I do is:

I wonder if any of my findings deserve a spot in the manual. Took me a good while to figure this one out. Closing this now.

Thank you!

ivribalko commented 1 year ago

For everyone looking to backup Multitouch configs it looks like https://github.com/lra/mackup can do this for you