FarManager 3: export settings AND history
To export and to import configs in FarManager 3.x i can use command "far /export settings.xml" and "far /import settings.xml". It also saves and restores my plugins settings.
But what if i want, for any reason, export and import histories of actions (command, folder, search text, file viewing etc.)? How to do this?
You could copy C:\Users\<user>\Local Settings\Far Manager\Profile\history.db to your new FAR installation (or another location to back it up).
history.db is a SQLite database (in FAR 3.0 build 4949 x64) and contains:
- editorbookmarks_history
pid │ num │ line │ linepos │ screenline │ leftpos ────┼─────┼──────┼─────────┼────────────┼────────
- editorposition_history
id │ name │ time │ line │ linepos │ screenline │ leftpos │ codepage ────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼────────────┼─────────┼───────── 1 │ C:\dev\lots\far\Plugins\FTP\lib\Progress_FarCopy.reg │ 131409365609906748 │ 32 │ 7 │ 32 │ 0 │ 437 2 │ C:\dev\lots\far\Plugins\FTP\lib\Progress_JM.reg │ 131409365636305598 │ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │ 1252
- history
id │ kind │ key │ type │ lock │ name │ time │ guid │ file │ data
─────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼───────┼────────────
75 │ 3 │ Copy │ 0 │ 0 │ C:\Users\A\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\ │ 131406535121264788 │ │ │
359 │ 3 │ SearchText │ 0 │ 0 │ \s{2,}(.+) │ 131409454921877807 │ │ │
360 │ 3 │ ReplaceText │ 0 │ 0 │ > "$1txt" │ 131409454921892816 │ │ │
407 │ 3 │ Copy │ 0 │ 0 │ orig │ 131409467955745308 │ │ │
412 │ 3 │ NewFolder │ 0 │ 0 │ Temp │ 131409478016477759 │ │ │
4383 │ 0 │ │ 0 │ 0 │ git clone https://github.com/FarGroup/FarManager.git │ 131549537486842679 │ │ │ C:\dev\c++
- sqlite_master
type │ name │ tbl_name │ rootpage │ sql ... ──────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────... table │ history │ history │ 2 │ CREATE TABLE history(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,... index │ history_idx1 │ history │ 3 │ CREATE INDEX history_idx1 ON history (kind, ... index │ history_idx2 │ history │ 4 │ CREATE INDEX history_idx2 ON history (kind, ... index │ history_idx3 │ history │ 5 │ CREATE INDEX history_idx3 ON history (kind, ... index │ history_idx4 │ history │ 6 │ CREATE INDEX history_idx4 ON history (kind, ... table │ editorposition_history │ editorposition_history │ 7 │ CREATE TABLE editorposition_history(id INTEG... index │ sqlite_autoindex_editorposition_history_1 │ editorposition_history │ 8 │ ... table │ editorbookmarks_history │ editorbookmarks_history │ 9 │ CREATE TABLE editorbookmarks_history(pid INT... index │ sqlite_autoindex_editorbookmarks_history_1 │ editorbookmarks_history │ 10 │ ... index │ editorposition_history_idx1 │ editorposition_history │ 11 │ CREATE INDEX editorposition_history_idx1 ON ... table │ viewerposition_history │ viewerposition_history │ 12 │ CREATE TABLE viewerposition_history(id INTEG... index │ sqlite_autoindex_viewerposition_history_1 │ viewerposition_history │ 13 │ ... table │ viewerbookmarks_history │ viewerbookmarks_history │ 14 │ CREATE TABLE viewerbookmarks_history(pid INT... index │ sqlite_autoindex_viewerbookmarks_history_1 │ viewerbookmarks_history │ 15 │ ... index │ viewerposition_history_idx1 │ viewerposition_history │ 18 │ CREATE INDEX viewerposition_history_idx1 ON ...
- viewerbookmarks_history
pid │ num │ filepos │ leftpos ────┼─────┼─────────┼────────
- viewerposition_history
id │ name ... │ time │ filepos │ leftpos │ hex │ codepage ────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────...─┼────────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┼─────┼───────── 1 │ C:\Users\A\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Def... │ 131406529236576470 │ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │ 1252 2 │ E:\Users\a\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Cer... │ 131406533100894047 │ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │ 1252 3 │ C:\Users\A\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\A12... │ 131406535532290385 │ 23389 │ 0 │ 0 │ 65001 4 │ C:\Users\A\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Loc... │ 131406535566058527 │ 0 │ 6713 │ 0 │ 65001
history.db-shm and history.db-wal are SQLite temporary files and I wouldn't copy them.
To inspect the contents of the SQLite files directly in FAR Manager install the SQLiteDB plugin.