Syncing LabVIEW options between installs

[OneOfTheDans]

I use a couple virtual machines to segment my development of different projects. After doing this for a while, each one has my LabVIEW options (e.g. Show hashmarks for constant folded structures) in a slightly different configuration, which can be annoying. Does anyone have a nice way to sync these so a change in one will automatically show up in my other environments too?

[RTSLVU · Accepted solution]

Copy LabVIEW.ini from the install you like to all the others

[OneOfTheDans]

I'll give that a try, thanks. Maybe I can use SyncThing or some other tool to automatically sync the settings too. Do you know if there are any caveats within that .ini file? For example, if I have different modules installed on different VMs? I don't want to "automatically" corrupt my config on another setup.

[JÞB]

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@OneOfTheDans wrote:

I'll give that a try, thanks. Maybe I can use SyncThing or some other tool to automatically sync the settings too. Do you know if there are any caveats within that .ini file? For example, if I have different modules installed on different VMs? I don't want to "automatically" corrupt my config on another setup.

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I'd filter out the Getting Started Window options (GSWpinned values,) recent colors, recent files and recent projects keys and use the per-machine values instead.  Everything else is machine agnostic.

A simple merge using a text dif tool would be helpful but, of course you could sort the keys and write a nifty vi to merge them yourself.

Module licensing and availability is handled under the License Manager so that is not an issue for merging the LabVIEW.ini files.