For-Users/Guides/How-to-sync-Cura-profiles-across-multiple-Windows-computers.md

+At times, you may find it necessary to keep your Cura profiles in sync across different computers or workstations.
+
+# Prerequisites
+* Windows
+* Link Shell Extension [download](https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html)
+* Cloud syncing service (i.e, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Synctoy, your own deployment, etc.)
+
+# Preparation
+1. Ensure Link Shell Extension is installed and enabled on your context menu
+2. Create a folder for holding synced items on your cloud storage
+> ![image](uploads/b665a478a6425fef3f03e6dca32b6550/image.png)
+3. Navigate to your %appdata% folder where the *master copy* of your Cura profiles is stored. (Open the Start menu -> type in "%appdata%" in the search bar -> Enter.
+> ![image](uploads/30a301a1adf92d7dfe0500ccf71b725f/image.png)
+4. Cut the "cura" folder from your %appdata% to the folder you designated for holding your cloud files in Step 2.
+5. As the files copy, be sure to let them sync in their entirety to the cloud before proceeding.
+
+# Configuring the symbolic link
+1. Ensure that your files have completed uploading to (or downloading from) your cloud storage.
+2. Shift-click the "cura" folder in your cloud storage, then select "Pick Link Source"
+
+> ![image](uploads/c2b85a68c389dae3c7a7883ed30290bf/image.png)
+
+3. Navigate back to the %appdata% folder, right click on the window, and select "Drop as..." -> "Symbolic Link"
+![image](uploads/01198761eb5aebd0cbc495e5aa5106d7/image.png)
+
+4. Open Cura, and confirm that your profiles appear.
+
+> ![image](uploads/4221d8d4c4e6be54ae88ef18685bb6a5/image.png)
+
+5. Repeat this section for every computer you wish to sync your profiles to.
+
+# Upgrading Cura, but keeping your profiles
+By copying the entire Cura folder, you are syncing for all versions (and future versions) of Cura. Cura will only import your profiles from an older version *upon fresh install*. So if you are using Cura 4.9 for example, and wish to upgrade to 4.13, you need to ensure 4.13 is not installed first before installing it.
+
+# Things to keep in mind
+- You need to ensure you shut down Cura all the way on each workstation before you use it on another.
+- Your profiles will sync, but occasionally, Cura may "forget" you are already configured. Simply proceed through setup with a generic Ultimaker S5 profile, then delete it after. (This tends to happen if you did not close Cura.)
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