Lately I have had the need to clear browser cookies. What I noticed is that not only will I be logged out of my account (logical) but the settings I had set in Tesseract are also reset to their default state. Logging into the server where I have my account does not give me my settings back unfortunately.

Is there a way to save all my settings? And if there is no option to do so, can we have that in Tesseract?
Ideally it would be on my own storage location. I host Tesseract on my docker server and if the settings can be saved there automatically then that would be great.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgMEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Yep. Two ways, actually. Both are in Settings -> Import Export section.

    Method 1 is to export them to a JSON file which can be saved, copied/moved, and loaded.

    Method 2 is to save them to Lemmy. That’s hacky, but works. It WILL break Lemmy-UI for your account since it uses the theme key in your profile to save the JSON data. There’s a button to restore the theme setting to a valid value to fix Lemmy UI again.

    Since I never use Lemmy-UI, I typically use method 2 when transferring my settings to another device.

    Exporting settings will save all application settings (except theme, but that’s easy enough to change). It also saves your favorites and groups as well.