[QGIS-Developer] Settings migration from QGIS 2 to 3

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Tim Sutton 
Co-founder of Kartoza 
QGIS project chairman 

> On 27 Oct 2017, at 12:49, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just a heads up that I just merged something to migrate settings and styles from 2 .qgis2 and config locations into QGIS 3 settings.  It will currently only take a selection of things that I know we can port over but I would like some help to grow that list before release.
> 
> Notes on how it works:
> 
> Edit the following file: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/90857b2b18b69ac195d152db269f18a23c0ab95f/resources/2to3migration.txt
> 
> Syntax is:
> 
> oldkey;newkey
> 
> * means match key and /* means copy everything under this group:
> 
> Qgis/connections-xyz/*;qgis/connections-xyz/*
> 
> Will copy and Qgis/connections-xyz/ to gis/connections-xyz/ and everything under it.
> 
> browser/favourites;* 
> 
> Will copy the full key browser/favourites to the same key in QGIS 3.
> 
> If you change the file you must change # version=1 at the top to be a higher number
> or else the migration won't run again, however, we can leave it at 1 for now until release
> and just bump it at the end just before release once all the keys are added. 
> 
> If you want to add stuff to and have troubles let me know.   I would like to see if we can get all the important stuff to come over before release, connection strings, etc.  Anything that is a pain to setup for users.
> 
> If you don't want to lose any settings you are currently using in QGIS 3 dev I would make a new profile (Settings -> User Profile) and run with that one while default takes everything from the migration steps.  Pro tip: Just copy the default copy in the profiles\ folder to have a copy.


Ah brilliant thanks so much for doing this Nathan!

Regards 

Tim 


> 
> Regards,
> Nathan
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