How to backup & restore your JD configuration

How to backup/restore your JD configuration (includes Settings, Accounts, Downloadlist, Linkgrabberlist)

This can be helpful if you:

• Are moving from one computer/OS to another
• Simply want to have a backup
• Are re-installing JDownloader and want to keep your previous config
• Are going to change advanced settings in JDownloader
• Are trying to fix a broken JDownloader installation and want to be on the safe side

How to create a backup?

1. Click on File --> Backup --> Backup all settings
   
2. Select your save path and confirm.
3. A file with the extension ".jd2backup" will be created in your selected folder.
   This includes the following information:
   - Downloadlist
   - LinkGrabber List
   - All settings
   - Accounts
   - EventScripter scripts
   - Basically everything from inside the "[Your JD install dir]/cfg" folder

How to restore a backup?

1. Click on File --> Backup --> Restore settings
2. Select your previously saved file and confirm
3. JD will restart with your restored settings

How to backup- and restore your JDownloader configuration via configuration folder backup?

or: How to backup your config if you are running JDownloader in headless mode?
or: How to backup your config if JDownloader doesn't start at all e.g. due to a broken installation?

You can manually backup your config folder:

Inside your JDownloader install dir you can find a folder called cfg.
This folder contains your complete config so creating a backup of that folder essentially creates a backup of your JDownloader config.

 Automatically back up your config folder regularly

If you want some extra peace of mind, you can use external backup applications to automatically create backups of your config folder.
Examples of such applications:

• Windows, Linux, macOS: FreeFileSync (link), Syncthing (link)

• Linux: Resilio (link)

• Any (other) OS: Use custom scripts that copy the cfg folder to another location from time to time.

 Restoring a cfg folder backup | Restoring a manually created backup

1. Open the JD install dir of your fresh JD installation.
2. If that directory already contains a "cfg" folder, delete it.
3. Copy the previously stored cfg folder over to your new JD install dir.

I've restored my previous config but installed JDownloader extensions are missing, what to do?

Extensions are not part of the config. Simply re-install them.