Syncing Cura Settings & Profiles Accross multiple devices

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Syncing Cura Settings & Profiles Accross multiple devices

I use multiple devices to control my 3D printer and it's alwys a hassle to move changes on profiles etc. between those machines leading to situations where I use an old version of my profiles to print a part because I just forgot to update it.

Here is how you can sync Cura settings between multiple devices:

1. Setup Google Drive / OneDrive / Dropbox on every machine you want to sync the Cura settings on
2. Go to the following location and copy the folder called cura to any convinient location inside your Google Drive / OneDrive / Dropbox folder. You can also rename the folder form cura to somthing else, I called mine Cura Settings.

• Windows: %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\cura
• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Cura/

3. Create a symbolic link between the cura folder (which is now inside your Google Drive / OneDrive / Dropbox) and the original location. Open a Terminal on Mac or a Command Prompt (start with admin rights) on Windows and type following:

• Window: mklink /D "%userprofile%\Google Drive\Cura Settings" "%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\cura"
• Mac: ln -s "~/Google Drive\Cura Settings" ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cura/

Cura will now access the synced settings in your Google Drive / OneDrive / Dropbox. This works also to sync settings cross platform with Windows and Mac.

Linux stores the files slightly differently compared to Windows and Mac so you can't adopt this method 1:1. See the Cura documentation to see which paths you need to sync using symbolic links.

Worked well as proposed: Settings on Desktop and Notebook (WIN11) Appdata\Roaming\Cura now linked to common OneDrive. Admin rights necessary. Confirmation by the system: symbolische Verknüpfung erstellt für C:\Users...\AppData\Roaming\cura <<===>> C:\Users...
Explorer shows the AppData\Roaming\cura as a linked direktory