Apart from blow up printers, the one scariest thing for me about a slicer is losing settings. You spend hours getting your printer dialed in, specific profiles per material and then…

You update your slicer software and it all goes away. I have now learned Cura does this. And does this a lot. Forum posts abound about it. Friends recommend I switch to Prusa because it happened to them. Unfortunately too late for me to write down my old settings, and they’re apparently not in the ~/.config/cura folder anymore. Nice.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Did the backup plugin work between 4.x and 5.x? If so, perhaps I will try that during my transition, too. I have backups of the configs in my dotfiles, it’s just that Cura doesn’t import them between major versions.

    • Stampela@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I’ve never had issues with Cura losing my stuff (been using it with an Ender 3 since… 2019 I think) but the backup plugin is connected with your account. It’s a wonderful thing! New computer? Login, restore backup, everything is like you left it.

      I do make sure to use it before any update because I have seen the same kind of posts as you have.