Exporting and Importing Qt Creator settings

[Saviz]

I tried following the reference manual for the Qt Creator IDE in order to figure out how to export and import my IDE settings so I don't have to redefine them every time I install the software on my system. However, the documentation is not entirely accurate and does not help at all. I was wondering if someone could explain the process to me in depth. I am currently using a 64-bit Windows 10 operating system. My Qt Creator version is 12.0.1.

[ChrisW67]

@Saviz Those instructions are about forcing/sharing Project settings, not the installation-wide Qt Creator IDE settings (i.e. the settings you see in Edit->Prefrences or equivalent).

If you are trying to share project settings then please explain what about the documentation is "not entirely accurate and does not help at all?"

The IDE-wide settings are probably in %APPDATA%\Roaming\QtProject on Windows.

[Saviz]

@ChrisW67

@ChrisW67 said in Exporting and Importing Qt Creator settings:

Those instructions are about forcing/sharing Project settings, not the installation-wide Qt Creator IDE settings (i.e. the settings you see in Edit->Prefrences or equivalent).

Thank you for clarifying this. I tried looking into the "All Topics" section of the documentation, but I couldn't find anything relevant to my case. The closest topic I found was when searching for the keyword "Settings" on the page and found this section about "Find settings files". The page has some useful information, but it is still a bit ambiguous and does not fully explain which files to target, where to copy them, or any other procedures we need to consider.

Anyway, here's an image of my current Roaming/QtProject folder structure:

Which files do I need to copy for my preferences to be transferred to my new installation? I would also appreciate it if you could very briefly explain to me what each of these files contain and what they do.

(I'm assuming I need to copy the files you mentioned to the same Roaming/QtProject directory for my new installation, is that correct?)