prusa slicer user data on another computer
i usually work on a MAC but started working on my Windows Box downstairs where the printer is located. I installed fusion and the Prusa slicer. I logged in to Prusa and opened the slicer. I expected to see the filaments I use on my MBP follow me wherever I opened the Slicer. Is there any way to have this happen?
thanks in advance
RE: prusa slicer user data on another computer
You could probably use a file sharing app such as dropbox to copy the relevant files back and forth, I do that with info for my CNC. On the windows PC the relevant files are in sub directories under C:\Users\YourNane\AppData\Roaming\PrusaSlicer but I've no idea where they would be on a Mac and you would need to check they were the same format on both
... or you can put the configuration directory on a file server/NAS and symlink to it from all your workstations.
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RE: prusa slicer user data on another computer
... or you can put the configuration directory on a file server/NAS and symlink to it from all your workstations.
That is the way. Here's my recipe:
- Go to Prusaslicer's Help menu and select Show Configuration Folder.
- Quit Prusaslicer.
- Go up one level and note the location/path name of the folder. It's usually /Users/username/Library/Application Support/PrusaSlicer (alphas and betas have different names). On Windows, it would look like C:/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/PrusaSlicer or similar.
- Create a backup copy, just in case.
- Copy the configuration folder to your network drive and delete the original. Note the new pathname, in my case /Users/username/OneDrive/3D Printing/Software/PrusaSlicer/PrusaSlicer
- Open a terminal window.
- Create a symlink on each computer on which you want to sync it:
ln -s "/Users/username/OneDrive/3D Printing/Software/PrusaSlicer/PrusaSlicer" "/Users/username/Library/Application Support/PrusaSlicer"
What all this does is create a "master copy" of the config folder on a network drive (OneDrive/Gooogle drive/Dropbox handle the syncing of that drive across machines in the background). The symlink creates a pointer to that folder in the location in which PrusaSlicer looks for the config folder.
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RE: prusa slicer user data on another computer
... or you can put the configuration directory on a file server/NAS and symlink to it from all your workstations.
That is the way. Here's my recipe:
- Go to Prusaslicer's Help menu and select Show Configuration Folder.
- Quit Prusaslicer.
- Go up one level and note the location/path name of the folder. It's usually /Users/username/Library/Application Support/PrusaSlicer (alphas and betas have different names). On Windows, it would look like C:/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/PrusaSlicer or similar.
- Create a backup copy, just in case.
- Copy the configuration folder to your network drive and delete the original. Note the new pathname, in my case /Users/username/OneDrive/3D Printing/Software/PrusaSlicer/PrusaSlicer
- Open a terminal window.
- Create a symlink on each computer on which you want to sync it:
ln -s "/Users/username/OneDrive/3D Printing/Software/PrusaSlicer/PrusaSlicer" "/Users/username/Library/Application Support/PrusaSlicer"What all this does is create a "master copy" of the config folder on a network drive (OneDrive/Gooogle drive/Dropbox handle the syncing of that drive across machines in the background). The symlink creates a pointer to that folder in the location in which PrusaSlicer looks for the config folder.
I did something similar, but instead of using a symlink for the entire settings folder I made symlinks for all of the sub folders that have user settings. I was concerned about having issues sharing the PrusaSlicer.ini settings file that has local computer specific things in it. The shared cloud service that I use for this is DropBox, but I need to find a different cloud service (or do something weird combining samba with DropBox) because DropBox doesn't have an auto-synchronizing client for RaspberryOS that I have running on a Pi500.
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RE: prusa slicer user data on another computer
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RE: prusa slicer user data on another computer
I did the symlink thing with my NAS and it's working fine between my Windows and macOS computers. The only thing that doesn't work is the download directory since the two OS's use different directory structure conventions. There is no workaround that I can see. You have to disable the download folder option. This is only an issue between win/mac. If you have multiple win or multiple macs, you're fine.
RE: prusa slicer user data on another computer
Symlinks work fine between my 2 macs. What would really be nice is if these profiles can synced via PrusaConnect so they are also available via EasyPrint etc.
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RE: prusa slicer user data on another computer
There has been a GitHub issue related to this https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues/10915 in which I provided my "symlink recipe" (as user mix579) but it doesn't explicitly address syncing via Prusaconnect.
So I just opened a new issue: https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues/14935
Please add your voice to it if you think it's worth supporting.
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