How to transfer TweetDeck account settings and groups between computers

How to transfer TweetDeck account settings and groups between computers (Linux, Windows, Mac)

There are many Twitter clients out there and one of the most popular of them all is TweetDeck. TweetDeck is a very clean and polished Twitter app built on the Adobe Air environment. The reasons TweetDeck is so popular in the Twitterverse is it's unique functionality and abilities including intergration with URL shortening, StockTwits, 12seconds, TwitScoop, Twitter search, Facebook and my favorite grouping. Grouping allows you to group your twitter friends into different categories so that you can better track who you are following. You could for instance place all the blogs you follow into a group and then all the news channels you follow into a group and then all your close friends into a group, etc, etc, etc.

So since I have become a major TweetDeck fan I have slowly moved the app to each one of my computers, BUT the major issue is that my main computer has all my setting the way I like it and all the others don't. These settings and groups take quite a while to setup, so it is a lot of work to do it on each machine. So I have figured out how to transfer these settings between computers, here is what you need to do....

There are two files in which TweetDeck stores all your group and settings information, they are:

• preferences_{username}.xml
• td_26_{username}.db

And depending on what OS you have depends on where you will find those files. Look below and find out where you files are

Ubuntu/Linux

/home/{username}/.appdata/TweetDeckFast.{large number}/Local Store/

Windows

C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\TweetDeckFast.{large number}\Local Store

And If you can't find it there try
C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Roaming\TweetDeckFast.{large number}\Local Store

Mac

/Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/Application Data/TweetDeckFast.{large number}/Local Store

Locate these two files based on your OS type and path above and transfer them to the same location onto your second computer. Obviously you will need to have TweetDeck installed on this second computer before you can transfer these files to the location. From there, when you start up TweetDeck on your second computer all your settings and groups should be there!

You also might be able to keep them in sync with a service like DropBox, Mozy, etc

Useful!!

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