Import Label Presets from DOpus Backup (.OCB)?

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Hi,

Is it possible to import only the Label presets from a DOpus backup file into another setup?

My situation:
I have DOpus installed on my home PC and my laptop. Both have different configurations (largely similar, but some differences such as drive shortcuts, etc). I would like to synchronise the Label settings across both installations. Is it possible to transfer/import Label settings from 1 installation to another? Or is it best to just recreate the labels on both machines?

This would be useful for me as I often transfer files between the 2 machines with an external HDD. Would the label assignments be retained after transferring files/folders from one machine to the other?

Open to other suggestions/solutions.

Thanks for any help

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Label definitions (as in "Red" means "use red for the text color", etc.) are stored in /dopusdata\ConfigFiles\foldercolors.oxc.

Which files/folders labels are applied to, if they have been applied by path, are stored in /dopusdata\ConfigFiles\filecolors.oxc. But that data is not always part of the config and may be stored in the filesystem itself, if Preferences / Favorites and Recent / Labels / Automatically store labels in the file system if possible is turned on.

If labels are stored in the filesystem, you should turn on Preferences / File Operations / Copy Attributes / Copy metadata (comments, keywords, etc) and Copy all NTFS data streams if you want them to be included when copying files or moving them between drives. (This has a small per-file performance overhead.)

If labels are stored in the filesystem, they will always be lost when copying to a non-NTFS destination (e.g. some network shares, FAT/FAT32/exFAT/etc. drives and USB sticks, zip files, most cloud storage).

Both config files are text files, so you can open them up to see the type of data they include.

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Awesome, thanks a lot for the info Leo.

I use Robocopy to handle transfer operations to and from my external HDD. Labels won't be preserved between machines with Robocopy?

Thanks again

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Looks like the default is to copy them:

C:\>robocopy /?

  /COPY:copyflag[s] :: what to COPY for files (default is /COPY:DAT).
                       (copyflags : D=Data, A=Attributes, T=Timestamps, X=Skip alt data streams).
                       (S=Security=NTFS ACLs, O=Owner info, U=aUditing info).
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Thanks Ixp.

Finally got around to doing a bit of testing, and you're correct! Using Robocopy will preserve labels when copying from source to my external HDD.

And with Leo's tips above ( Copy all NTFS data streams), I can preserve labels when transferring from external HDD to destination.

Thanks a lot guys!

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