Backing Up & Moving Your Profile
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Got a new 'pooter you want to transfer your library to? Worried about Songbird losing all your customizations in a bad crash? Well let's take care of that...
Locating Your Profile
Windows
| On Windows Vista
| On Windows 2000 and XP
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On Windows, Artwork and other cache is stored in a separate App Data folder:
On Vista and 7:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Songbird2\Profiles\
On Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Songbird2\Profiles\
Be sure to back up those too for better profile interoperability.
Linux
The default location of the Songbird profile is
~/.songbird2/profiles/********.default/.
- Navigate to your
/home/folder. - Select View ›Show Hidden Files if it isn't already checked. (On Ubuntu)
- Double click the folder called
.Songbird2. Your profile folders are within this folder.
Mac OS X
The default location of the Songbird profile is ~/Library/Application Support/Songbird2/Profiles/********.default/.
- Open Finder and go to your home folder. Note: your home folder is usually the name of your Mac user account
- From your home folder, Navigate to
/Library/Application Support/Songbird2/Profiles/. - Open your profile folder. By default, it is
/********.default/
Restoring Your Profile
Once you have a hold of those precious files and folders, it's time to put them into action.
✓ This only works if you are moving your profile to the same Operating System and your media is located on the same drive or file location.
You should now have your backed-up profile folder in hand. Using the steps above, locate you're new profile and replace the contents of the /********.default/ profile folder with your backed-up profile folder. If the 'new' profile folder has a different string of numbers and letters, be sure to KEEP that string the way it is. Songbird won't recognize your profile if you modify the profile name.
If you are having trouble with Songbird recognizing your newly copied profile, follow these instructions.
Thanks Lukas!
