File location of Slic3r PE User Presets for current version?
I'm using WIndows 10, I'm in the process of having to change computers and I have a large number of presets for Slic3r PE that I need to transfer to another computer where I will install Slic3r PE again. I haven't found them anywhere in the Program Files folder (Program Files>Prusa3D>Slic3rPE). If they are there they aren't obviously named.
One other thing to note is that when I installed an updated version of Slic3rPE on this computer a few months ago, my custom print profiles weren't loaded into that version, and it also didn't delete my older version of Slic3rPE in the process. So I've stuck with
my old outdated version, while keeping the newest version but not using it.
From some searching around, it looks like the user profile files from my older version of Slic3r PE are created by default in C:>Users>Public>Public Documents>Prusa3D>Slic3r settings MK3 214>print
Does anyone know for sure where the current version of Slic3rPE keeps and looks for user profiles? There's no other folder like the MK3 214 folder I've seen I could copy them into. That folder only seems to read profiles for my outdated install.
They are saved as .ini files, for example "0.10mm DETAIL ravanelbase.ini" is one of mine and I've got 52 others that I use pretty regularly. I feel like the newer versions must have changed the profile location but I have no idea where that would be.
Thank you
Re: File location of Slic3r PE User Presets for current version?
You can export your customized profiles as a config bundle, then import the config bundle on the new computer. I do this often to move settings between computers.
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Re: File location of Slic3r PE User Presets for current version?
You can export your customized profiles as a config bundle, then import the config bundle on the new computer. I do this often to move settings between computers.
Do you know where the configuration snapshots are located so I can transfer them (and where to put them so they can be activated)? Or is the config bundle something different than a configuration snapshot?
I was able to take a configuration snapshot of my current profiles (this is in version 1.41.0 where all my profiles are stored) but it doesn't tell me where the output directory is. I see in preferences that I can "Remember output directory" as an option but not to set the directory or tell me where they are currently stored.
EDIT: I found "show configuration folder" under the "help" menu (I would have thought it would be under the configuration menu)
So it looks like I just need to find that config folder in my new install, and copy over my configuration snapshot to the correct folder and then activate it once I'm set up on my new computer, Correct?
Thanks again.
Re: File location of Slic3r PE User Presets for current version?
[...] So it looks like I just need to find that config folder in my new install, and copy over my configuration snapshot to the correct folder and then activate it once I'm set up on my new computer, Correct?
I use a Mac so can't help with the exact details, but yes the profiles are all stored under the snapshot directory as well as the working directory. However, the results you get doing all that work are exactly the same as if you did a "proper" configuration bundle. I suppose you could pick & choose which profiles to import a bit more selectively.
I'm not sure just copying the directory of .ini files over is sufficient. You may have to import them individually, which can be a pain with a large number of files. Here again, a config bundle does it all in one operation.
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Re: File location of Slic3r PE User Presets for current version?
I found the export config bundle menu item and exported from my version of Slic3r PE that has all of my settings saved, but upon importing config bundle into the latest version I get the message "0 profiles imported" after the import is complete (there should have been over 50). Also manually copying and pasting the files does not work, the names come up but none of the settings are actually changed. Perhaps older slic3r PE configs just aren't compatible with the newest versions. I tried several times, and also tried importing one config profile at a time, which didn't work (name of profile would come up but no changes in print settings would occur).
I am probably just going to have to do my best guess about what my settings were or save screenshots/text files of all of my settings and manually input those values to recreate my profiles from one version to another.