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    I'm moving to a new machine and also upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1.  Is it possible to preserve my file pairs by copying over some configuration file?  Or do I have to go through the (somewhat tedious) business of recreating them once more as if from scratch?
    Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:45 PM

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    I think maybe I found my own answer.  If I put this file:

    SyncToyDirPairs.bin

     

    in the C:\Documents and Settings\[local user]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\SyncToy\2.1

    that should preserve the pairings.  Am I correct?

    Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:58 PM
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    Hi IanRW,

    Yes, that is the key file.

    But normally, you do not need to worry about how to re-use your previous configurations. SyncToy 2.1 itself will do things to approach this for you. And it is not recommended to maniputlate SyncToyDirPairs.bin or any other SyncToy metadata files manually.

    Thanks

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    Thursday, April 1, 2010 1:41 AM