Sync LB settings/configs across 2 computers

LightBurn Software Questions
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I do my design in the comfort of my office on my design computer (Windows 11). I have a Windows 11 laptop (1920x1080 FHD) next to my xTool D1 Pro 20w that I use to control the laser. I store all my project files on an online drive (DropBox/OneDrive/G-Drive/etc.) which makes it easy to move my projects from design computer to burn computer. I will almost always have small tweaks when I’m at the laser. What I want to do is have LightBurn on design computer look and act just like the one on my laptop controlling the laser. How do I do this? I assume there are ways to export/import settings and configs but I:

  1. Do not know how.
  2. Do not know what all I need to export/import between the computers.

I already have material library files that I keep in my online drive for both. If/when I modify on one, I make sure to export and then import on new computer.

I am also careful to not have the same project file open on both computers at the same time.

What is the best practice?

BTW, I did search the forumn first as I figured this would have been asked before and did not find anything.

TIA
Dale

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Like this:

This tends to be fraught with heartbreak and confusion, although if you are very careful about not aiming two LightBurn instances at the same file at the same time things generally behave.

Sharing the Material Library works OK:

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Thank you, I’ll take a look at both of those links in a bit. What would you suggest instead of placing the project files on an online drive? I’m extremely new to lasers and LightBurn.

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This may be a bit of an outlier solution, but I stood up a dedicated Windows 11 mini-PC on the laser, then access it remotely using RDP from the Linux box at my desk with the Comfy Chair:

Which neatly sidesteps all the contention problems, because there’s only one LightBurn instance in play.

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