I have too many computers, and depending on the situation, I work on them all. I think it would be great to buy additional licenses/devices for an account. I hope I am not the only one, lol.
Okay, so that was an embarrassing post and I just bought an additional license. Is there a way to merge User components that I am overlooking? I used the same email for the purchase thinking it would work as intended, but they do not show up under the new license.
If you have two different Bootstrap Studio installs on two different computers, there’s no tool within the program to merge the User components.
If the machines have no ability to easily share files (networked, shared cloud storage, close proximity to use a thumb drive, etc.) the simplest thing is to just share your User components so they’re available in the user library on the Bootstrap Studio servers, and then install the components on your target machine. If you have a way you can share files between the machines easily, you can try copying the contents of the user data from the source machine to the target machine.
On Windows, I believe the folder that contains all the user data is named bstudio and the path may be something like…
C:\Users\(yourprofile)\AppData\Roaming\bstudio
But don’t hold me to that. Might be different on different versions of Windows. And I can’t speak for the location on Mac or Linux.
@printninja I think they might be linked by license and not by email (my nerd brain kicking in), if I remember correctly when I loaded BSS on my second computer they all downloaded. The problem I am seeing now is with the additional license, it sees each license as a different user, which programmatically makes sense (nerd brain in high gear now). I guess at the end of the day I could just look for the ones I shared like you suggested not the biggest of deals.
Now off to build some landing pages. BTW, you always provide valuable feedback on the forum and I really appreciate it.
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It was many years ago that I installed my copy of BSS on two different computers (same license on both.) At that time, I do not remember if the User component library synced or not. I don’t think it did, but I could be wrong. Also, it could be that the software has changed. I’m still on version 6.4 because I’m running Windows 7. I have a new machine being setup right now that will be able to run the newest version of BSS.
I just had an opportunity to test it and BSS (7.12) will download the components that match the license but not the email. I think it would be a “nice to have” feature in the future. In the meantime I can just publish any components and download them.