how to import filters from previous version

To transfer library filters from FF7 to FF8 you need to copy two files and one folder:

Library\
Library.xml
LibraryStructure.xml

FOR MAC:
from
/Users/Your_User_Name/Library/Application Support/Filter Forge 7/System
to
/Users/Your_User_Name/Library/Application Support/Filter Forge 8/System

FOR WINDOWS:
from
%APPDATA%\Filter Forge 7\System\
to
%APPDATA%\Filter Forge 8\System\


To transfer user-made filters, environments and custom presets you need to copy the corresponding folders:
from
/Users/Your_User_Name/Library/Application Support/Filter Forge 7/
to
/Users/Your_User_Name/Library/Application Support/Filter Forge 8/

or from
%APPDATA%\Filter Forge 7\
to
%APPDATA%\Filter Forge 8\







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I just upgraded to version 3. Can I import filters from the older version?
Thanks.

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Please see this thread here for full information

James, you need to transfer
%APPDATA%\Filter Forge 3\System\ and
%APPDATA%\Filter Forge 3\My Filters
to another computer. This doesn't require an internet connection.

I think this will be useful for the ones that want to transfer filters from FF 3.0 to the new FF 40

Thank you for these easy-to-follow instructions.

On my Mavericks-run iMac, I copied the three items Library, Library.xml and
LibraryStructure.xml from here:

/Users/Your_User_Name/Library/Application Support/Filter Forge 3/System/

to here:

/Users/Your_User_Name/Library/Application Support/Filter Forge 4/System/

After that, I synched with your server when prompted to do so, checked for filter updates, and checked for app/plugin updates.

So far, everything seems to be working fine.

Now that I have imported everything from FF 3.0 to 4.0, I imagine that if I want to completely delete FF 3.0 from my hard drive, I would remove the following:

"Filter Forge 3" folder from the "Applications" folder
"Filter Forge 3" folder from the "~/Library/Application Support" folder
"FilterForge.pluginv3" alias from the Adobe Photoshop CS6/Plug-ins/Filters" folder

Am I missing anything? I didn't find any prefs files in "~/Library/Preferences".

Oh, if I may make a suggestion: It would be great if with each major release, you included some code which would give a user the option to automatically import filters from a previous version of the app to a new version of the app.

Thanks for listening, and thank you again for a fine product.

GMM, upon using a program uninstaller called CleanApp, I discovered that there is another folder that needs to be removed as well called "com.FilterForge.FilterForge3.savedState".

This particular folder is found here:

~/Library/Saved Application State/

Thus, as far as I can tell, to completely uninstall a previous version of Filter Forge from a hard drive on a Macintosh OS X machine -- after moving your filters to the new version -- the following four items need to be removed:

"Filter Forge 3" folder from the "Applications" folder.

"Filter Forge 3" folder from the "~/Library/Application Support" folder.

"FilterForge.pluginv3" alias from the Adobe Photoshop CS6/Plug-ins/Filters" folder.

"com.FilterForge.FilterForge3.savedState" folder from the "~/Library/Saved Application State" folder.

This seems to have worked perfectly for me going from FF8 to FF9 as well.