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#972 Export/Import Profiles

Milestone: 5.X

Status: open

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NAPS2 Version: 6.1.2

Type: Feature Request

Priority: High

Scan Driver: TWAIN

Updated: 2022-12-27

Created: 2022-12-20

Creator: Mark Snyder

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Is there a way to create Profiles and export then import them to another PC. I am working on a Scanning project with several PC's and need the same profiles for all the PC's

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Valtoir dos Santos Jardim - 2022-12-27

According https://www.naps2.com/doc/org-use (please, read the entire page):

Configuration
You can configure NAPS2 for your users by deploying application-level configuration files to the NAPS2 installation directory (%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\NAPS2).

There are two configurable application-level files:

profiles.xml
appsettings.xml

profiles.xml
This file stores a list of scanning profiles. It acts as a set of default profiles that new users start with. If no application-level profiles.xml file exists, new users will start with no profiles. Note that once a user makes a change to any profile, changes to the application-level profiles.xml will no longer have any effect for that user. If you'd like to change this behavior, use the LockSystemProfiles element in appsettings.xml.

The user-level profiles are stored in %APPDATA%/NAPS2/profiles.xml. You can use your copy of this file as a base for the application-level profiles.xml (they use the exact same format).

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