[Feature Request] How to Transfer Entire Book Collection from one PC To Another Regardless of OS??

[mbennette68]

Hello,

I see no feature in Thorium Reader that allows for the transfer of the entire book collection from one machine to another.
An export feature would be great, or at least easy to follow instructions on how to manually do it, for any OS would be great.

Thank you,
MB

[llemeurfr]

Sure, it would be useful in case of a migration from one computer to another. The publications are stored in a well-known directory, we'll try to document it in https://thorium.edrlab.org/en/docs/.

Note: Having a UI for exporting the whole catalog is not a priority currently.

[gautierchomel]

From internal discussions:

The user can very well copy the electron useData directory which depends on the OS and copy it to the same location on the target machine, then start Thorium. This should work. Now we do not guarantee this method, because we do not know the limits of this practice, nor the potential problems of migrating the thorium db (which would be too old, but copied in Thorium3).
Likewise, synchronizing the userData folder using rsync/dropbox works but be careful about reconciling modified files between the two machines. It's a complex problem.

Therefore, a support faq entry was added with stable manual transfer workaround.

[danielweck]

What about migrating OPDS feeds? (possibly with credentials / access tokens?)
What about stored / cached LCP passphrases?
What about annotations / bookmarks that are attached to stored publications?
What about reading progress?

I am moving this issue to a discussion, because as it stands now, this is not an actionable issue in the tracker, we must dig a little deeper in order to flesh out problem details, and work out a solution.