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Help on Restoring Sublime Settings

#1

I attempted to export my settings from one computer to another and set up syncing through Dropbox. I followed these steps: https://packagecontrol.io/docs/syncing1.

However, I ended up losing my preferences (theme, settings, etc.) on the 1st computer and there was no preferences saved on the 2nd computer.

I tried following these steps, but to no avail: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16455052/how-to-restore-sublime-text-settings-and-preferences-and-undo-the-symlink-create/16464035.

Any advice would be much appreciated! Thank you in advance.

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#2

My advice is to use git to do the syncing, instead of dropbox. Also do not lose your files. Depending on how you loose them, you may recover them from your file system using some especial program to scan your file system and look for the deleted files. If you are lucky, your files was not overwritten yet. If not, then as you are using dropbox, it is supposed to be saved on your dropbox account.

If you deleted them and synced with dropbox, I think you have 30 days until dropbox delete the backups of your files for good/ever from the cloud. So you can access your dropbox account and check for the files you deleted.

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#3

I was able to recover the files, but the settings are not automatically applied when I move them back into ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/Default/Preferences.sublime-settings.

Do you know how to reapply them?

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#4

When you open Sublime Text, go to the menu Preferences -> Settings

Do you see your settings?

If not just open your setting files from the backup and copy and paste its contents on the Sublime Text.

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#5

Ah apologies, the User settings was not able to be recovered. But I see that all the packages/plugins I’ve installed are still there. Is there anyway to quickly reapply them?

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#6

You can copy and paste your packages on the Sublime Text packages folder, going on the menu:

  1. Preferences -> Browse Packages....

It will open your Sublime Text packages folder. Then just copy them to there.

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#7

So the packages are already there following the above steps, but they’re not applied. Any thoughts? Seems like the packages I’ve installed were not removed, but they are just sitting there not being applied.

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#8

They should be in the "ignored_packages" list on your preferences file, if they are being ignored. Can you copy here your full console output (View -> Console) after you open Sublime Text?

For example:

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startup, version: 3142 windows x32 channel: dev
executable: /D/User/Dropbox/Applications/SoftwareVersioning/SublimeText/sublime_text.exe
working dir: /C/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Atalhos
packages path: /D/User/Dropbox/Applications/SoftwareVersioning/SublimeText/Data/Packages
state path: /D/User/Dropbox/Applications/SoftwareVersioning/SublimeText/Data/Local
zip path: /D/User/Dropbox/Applications/SoftwareVersioning/SublimeText/Packages
zip path: /D/User/Dropbox/Applications/SoftwareVersioning/SublimeText/Data/Installed Packages
ignored_packages: ["All Autocomplete", "Anaconda", "ApplySyntax", "BracketHighlighter", "C++ Completions", "C++ Snippets", "C++ Starting Kit", "ColorHelper", "DictionaryAutoComplete", "FileManager", "Find++", "Gist", "Git", "GitGutter", "Javatar", "Local History", "Matlab Completions", "MatlabFilenameAutoComplete", "MySQL Snippets", "Project Specific Syntax Settings", "Qt Completions for C++", "ScopeAlways", "Select All Spelling Errors", "SQL Keyword Uppercase", "SQLExec", "SQLTools", "Sublime Tutor", "sublime-text-2-buildview", "SublimeCodeIntel", "SyncedSideBar", "SyntaxManager", "Vintage", "WordHighlight"]
generating syntax summary
Unable to parse binding {keys: [ctrl+alt+w]}
Unable to parse binding {keys: [ctrl+shift+w]}
pre session restore time: 6.55616
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#9

There seems to be only one package being ignored Vintage. So I guess that is not the issue?

What I mean by the packages (screenshot attached):

Screen Shot 2017-07-28 at 11.01.21 PM.png872Ă—840 87.9 KB

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#10

Ah okay so I recreated the Library/Application\ Support/Sublime/User directory as well as the Preferences.sublime-settings, and the ignored packaged populated themselves.

Console output here:

[details=Summary]startup, version: 3126 osx x64 channel: stable
executable: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Sublime Text
working dir: /
packages path: /Users/User/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages
state path: /Users/User/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Local
zip path: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages
zip path: /Users/User/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
ignored_packages: [“Alignment”, “AutoFileName”, “BracketHighlighter”, “BufferScroll”, “C++ Snippets”, “C++ Starting Kit”, “C++11”, “Cobalt2 Flat Theme”, “CSS3”, “Emmet”, “GitGutter”, “JavaScript & NodeJS Snippets”, “Javatar”, “Keymaps”, “Markdown Preview”, “Numix Theme”, “Sass”, “Select Quoted”, “SideBarEnhancements”, “Theme - Cobalt2”, “Vintage”]
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Package Control: Skipping automatic upgrade, last run at 2017-08-23 22:16:48, next run at 2017-08-23 23:16:48 or after[/details]

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