MySQL Bugs: #58570: A feature to export settings

Bug #58570	A feature to export settings
Submitted:	29 Nov 2010 21:27	Modified:	9 Jan 2015 10:23
Reporter:	Mohammad Saberi	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.0.30	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	export settings, MySQL, workbench

Description:
Hi.
It's about some months that I have been using Workbench as my management MySQL IDE. In this time, I had to uninstall it for different reasons, and then reinstall it again.
The problem is that whenever I want to reinstall Workbench, I have to define and give settings to make connections to different databases again.
I could not find any feature for exporting connection settings to import them for avoiding a repetitive work again and again.
I think such a useful feature can help everyone to use this lovely IDE more comfortable.

Good luck.

How to repeat:
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It's about some months that I have been using Workbench as my MySQL management IDE. In
this time, I had to uninstall it for different reasons, and then reinstall it again.
The problem is that whenever I want to reinstall Workbench, I have to define and give
settings to make connections to different databases again.
I could not find any feature for exporting connection settings to import them for
avoiding a repetitive work again and again.
I think such a useful feature can help everyone to use this lovely IDE more comfortable.

Good luck.

You can copy the connections.xml and server_instances.xml files to the new machine.
The location of the config dir with these files can be found with the Help -> System Info command

Thank you for your reply.
I checked system info. But I could not find any of those files in the installation directory. What should I do ?

Check "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\MySQL\Workbench" directory.

Thank you Valeriy, I found it ...

So, do you still need any new feature to solve "export settings" problem?

I solved my problem using your assistance. but you know, I think there are lots of users who don't know your solution for this.
So still I believe that if there be a special feature to export workbench settings to a file and users can use it to set those settings to the new installed program, it could be very useful than when a user wants to copy some files himself/herself.

However, I really thank you for your attention and guidance.
(Sorry if I had mistakes in my sentences, I'm not very good in Eng.)

It took me several hours to find this article. It'll save a lot of people a lot of hours if this feature is a button/menu in the workbench.