Have you ever migrated users to new computers or moved a scanner to a new computer and wondered how to migrate the Alchemy settings to that new system? It is definitely possible, but requires a little bit of copy / paste activity as the Alchemy software does not have a built in feature to do this.
Finding the Alchemy Settings Files
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The location of the file can vary based upon your systems operating system. The screen above is from a Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. The key is that the Scanner Settings file for Alchemy is currently stored in a (hidden by default) folder of the user’s profile directory. On Windows 7, the user profile directories are stored in C:\Users\… by default. Earlier version of Windows stored the profile directories in C:\Documents and Settings\. The following files contain a user’s preferences and settings for Alchemy:
1. Alchemy.ini – Contains all of the settings and preferences for the Alchemy desktop clients.
2. auscan.ini – Contains a small list of settings for the scan module.
3. auscanconfig.xml – Contains all of the scanner settings for a user.
Copy the Settings Files
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<CTRL>-Click Alchemy.ini, auscan.ini and auscanconfig.xml to select the files in Windows Explorer. Then, Right-Click (1) the selected files and select Copy (2) from the context menu.
Paste the Configuration Files onto the New Machine
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Simply copy or paste these files onto the new machine and into the user’s profile .\AppData\Local\imr\Alchemy folder.
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