Transferring f.lux settings to another machine

friedrichr

Is there a possibility to export the settings of f.lux, and to restore them on another machine? I meticulously adjusted my settings on a laptop, and would like to use the same settings on another computer.

There is some registry key HKCU/Software/Michael Herf/flux/Preferences which came to my attention, but I am unsure about the scope of this.

Furthermore I discovered C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Local/FluxSoftware/Flux/, but am uncertain about the relevance of its contents regarding my question.

I did some searches ("transfer", "export", "settings" etc.) here in the forum, but I found nothing appropriate. Furthermore, I googled "transferring f.lux settings", which resulted in nothing truly trustworthy. So I am asking for some more definite clarification here.

This is with f.lux 4.134.

herf

@friedrichr yes the HKCU/.../Preferences key has essentially all the relevant settings from within the app, nothing is saved to the filesystem except for caching feeds from our website.

Technically you could include "flux" if you don't want the updater to tell you about the new version you downloaded, but "Preferences" is the simplest one.

Gunther3613

@herf I have been using F.lux for a few years now with multiple computers and 4 years ago decided to add my F.lux settings to my computer setup scripts by exporting the settings from 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Michael Herf\flux\Preferences' into a registry file and reimporting them on computer setup.

I recently migrated to the Windows Store version of the installer and went to update the F.lux settings .reg file and it reg.exe complained that it couldn't find the registry path. I looked under 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Michael Herf\flux' and the 'Preferences' sub key was missing. I also looked under 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Michael Herf\flux' but 'Preferences' was blank.

Looking for help to see where the Microsoft store version is storing its settings.

Thank you for making a great program.

friedrichr

Thank you @herf, it worked.

herf

@Gunther3613 hi gunther - the app store version sometimes uses a "virtualized" registry, which is a separate hive, basically a separate registry file.

You may be able to open up registry.dat within the app folder from regedit, but I am not sure how it is protected. We probably should do this at the app level rather than make you do this kind of thing.