Updating Character Profile

[Kaskya]

Good afternoon everyone!

I'm getting a new PC (mostly for Dawntrail) and I want to copy over my hud/macros of my main to the new PC. I've found the folder in My Games > FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn and I've found my character's (it is 29.9mb opposed to the others being 500kb-1mb).

However, the date modified is still 2021. I tried changing the HUD layout slightly to see if that altered the date but no luck.

Is there a way to update the profile so my recent HUD/Macro changes are included?

Thank you for your time!

[Bun_Vivant]

Assuming you're actually looking at one of the FFXIC_CHRxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx folders in %USER% > Documents > My Games > FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn, the folder modified date of the folder may not change, but the .DAT files in that folder should have updated modified dates. Changes to the HUD should cause a change in the modified date for at least ADDON.DAT.

I run two accounts each having multiple characters on two machines, and a character can be on either the main machine or the second machine depending on what I'm doing, so I copy my UI, keybindings, etc a bit, both between machines (using a USB stick) and between characters.
The files I copy to copy the UI from one char to another for from one machine to another are:

ACQ.DAT: not sure what it does
ADDON.DAT: UI setting including HUD layout
COMMON.DAT: settings located in Character Settings menu
CONTROL0.DAT: Keyboard/Mouse Setting
CONTROL1.DAT: Gamepad/Controller Setting
HOTBAR.DAT: Contents of Hotbars but not Hotbar positions
KEYBIND.DAT: Key bindings
MACRO.DAT: Title, Icon and Line list of custom macros for character.
LOGFLTR.DAT: Chat log filter and color settings.

I got this info from https://eremiss.tumblr.com/post/6344...xiv-pc-version

A tip for alt lovers: once you've figured out which FFXIV_CHRnnn folder is for which character, create a text file named after the character in that folder (e.g. "bunvivant.txt") so you don't have to figure it out again later.

Note that you can also save a character's settings to SE's servers as an option on the character-select screen once you are logged in, and then restore those settings later (to the same PC or another PC) from the same screen.

[Kaskya]

You are absolutely right, the .DAT files are updated. This is my ignorance thinking those updating would change the folder's date modified. Thank you for the extra information as well!

[Votraftur]

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