I just added a second computer with Lightburn. I don’t understand why my settings, art library, etc aren’t reflected on my second computer, using the same license key. As an example, when I log into Gmail, my current inbox, etc shows up on any computer I use.
Is this something that can be changed?
Thanks!
Dale
How is your new computer or LightBurn supposed to “know” where your settings are? Locate your setting, material and art libraries on computer no.1 and export and import them to your new computer.
None (thank goodness) of your settings or private files are stored in LigthBurn’s clouds or similar. It can be compared to all other non-cloud-based programs, all your documents, spreadsheets or images are with you, if you want to use them on another computer, you must share them over LAN or other physical data devices.
It will have saved you time and irritation if you would have read the excellent documentation that comes with LightBurn, there is even a search function integrated.
Indeed!
No this can’t, I was thinking that if I login on a new computer that has Lightburn, my information, specifically the art library would be on the new computer. I’ve read the article several times previous to this post and still cannot find a file on my computer to move the art library. Cut library, yes but not art.
I suppose another question might be how can I copy my art library to “perfs”? I could then export the .lbperfs to a USB drive plug it into my new computer then import to my new art library. But I can’t see how to do this.
I’m clearly missing something can you help?
Thanks!
Dale
That’s not how it works. The license server handles licenses and nothing else.
The doc apparently refers to the Art Library as the Cut Library:
You decided where to put the Art Library files when you created the library:
To create a new (empty) library, click the ‘New’ button and choose a location and a name to store the library file. Once created and selected, you can immediately start adding content to it.
Copy the library file(s) from that location to the USB stick and away you go.
OK, I think I have it. The Lightburn Art File is further organized into files. I’ve done this to keep like projects together. For example, I have 8-10 box designs in a folder called boxes. I will have to manually add a new file in the new art library. Open the old file, and copy each file into the new library, right? Very inconvenient. I still don’t see why Lightburn can’t simply open the old art library files in a new computer with the same license key. Or allow a direct “copy” export of the old library and import to a new one.
Please let me know if there is a quicker work around.
Thanks!
Dale
Just copy the folder and past it to usb stick.
Then copy and past again where you want it.
Then load as usual.
Not a lot to it.
You could put the files on a shared drive like OneDrive or Dropbox. Though, throughout the forum, this is discouraged because LightBurn seems not to be able to handle such drives very well. But since it’s a massive PITA to move files manually (there is a longer discussion about cloud-based services in another thread, currently 
) I use it in my daily routine and never had a problem yet. But make sure to do regular backups, just in case.
Thanks Melvin,
Actually, all of my “art” files are on OneDrive. That’s how I had originally set up on my first computer with Lightburn. As I had mentioned, I orgainized the OneDrive Art file with folders for similar designs. For example, Ornaments, Coasters, Boxes, etc. I might have 8-10 designs in each one. So, in the new computer if I want these designs in the art Library, I have to create a new folder in the new Art Library, Open each folder in OneDrive, and import back into the new version of Lightburn. A real PITA!
Others that have replied to the post say no big deal but, I think it could be done same as any other application that has a user name and password. But, what do I know?
Thanks for listening!
Dale
Indeed. I think using the “total-offline” approach will lead to nowhere. Nowadays, users are used to cloud services and LightBurn will have to jump onto the train to not lose the game. But I can imagine that those cloud-based services are difficult to implement and maintain.
Maybe a kind of automatic shared-drive solution would be a good start. Such that LB reloads all libraries constantly if there has been a change. Then this can be an internal network solution, no external cloud required.
Do you think anyone at Lightburn will see this posting and do something?
Will they see it? Absolutely. They spend a ton of time here both listening quietly and actively helping.
Will they “do something”? Sorry, I dropped my crystal ball onto concrete years ago.
Thanks for noticing - we’ll fix that.
Thank you for understanding
…I think we will see the opposite in the future. Companies and others who make money with various programs take their intellectual property home to themselves. None of my colleagues or craftsman friends have their drawings or work files or images in the clouds, perhaps as an extra backup but not as a total solution.
In addition to the security aspect, we have all experienced that the services are suddenly sold and or that new or higher prices have come for storage space or online services.
We all have several computers and storage space on hard drives costs nothing in relation to the amount of space, I cannot, in this context, see an advantage in a cloud solution, for a company or semi-professional craftsman or artist.
Maybe I was not clear enough in that respect. I was not talking about a full cloud solution. I also don’t like that (especially if the full software ends up in a browser tab). I was talking about those convenience aspects, like having a cloud library, storing settings “globally” etc. They recently upgraded the licenses to three seats (because I guess so many people asked for it and adding manually was a lot of support work) which shows that many people are using LightBurn on more than one PC. Particularly, I think the most common use case is to have a design PC and a laser control PC. And having to transfer every single file and setting between the two is painful and error-prone. That’s why I strongly argue for that “cloud” function, which might be even be restricted to a local network. So cloud might not be the fitting term here. This kind of sharing of settings and libraries is a must in my opinion.
IMelvin, you hit the nail on the head!
It’s because I use my LAN for these tasks, I set up my computers once, share a “LightBurn Library”, save a backup on my NAS, done. I also can’t use other people’s machine setups and with external material library data I have only bad experiences. That’s why I don’t see this need you have, not because I don’t like cloud solutions.
I have always used Gmail and am satisfied with this solution for this purpose.
Speaking of Google, do you remember what suddenly happened to Picasa?
That’s how I do it as well, I guess. I have all my libraries and my project folder located on a OneDrive share. But as said in the beginning, this is officially discouraged. And it does not work very well, because libraries don’t update automatically when changed on the share drive. And that’s what I want to have changed
I really, really like Office 365 (apart from security, I’m talking about convenience), I have a full offline copy of everything (tools and data), but a full cloud copy as well. I can work on my documents from everywhere, it doesn’t matter if one of my PCs breaks down (recently my business laptop locked up, and it took me about 20 minutes to set up my full workspace on my private desktop machine). But I can still work completely offline as well. I can even work completely online, but I don’t need that workflow in LightBurn usually.
I never said I want to store data in the cloud, I wish to have a snyc via cloud/network etc. Such that I have identical copies of LightBurn and my workspace on every PC I use, but no need to store any data in a cloud. The “cloud” can just be used as a sync instance, where local copies check their versions. But LightBurn should do that automatically, without me having to manually reload a library file that I know has changed.
I think we basically agree with what we both mean. 