The correct keyboard shortcut is SHIFT+Control+C for windows.

Let me know the full path and I will update the wiki to show that too.

You don’t need to delete and reinstall jAlbum, just replace the configuration folder the new machine with that from the old one. Then start jAlbum and your old setup will be there.

Edited by: RobM on 16 Sep 2025, 10:55
Paths to the configuration folder now shown for both Mac and Windows.

The wiki entry in question:

https://jalbum.net/help/en/Moving_jAlbum_to_a_new_computer

You might run into one additional wrinkle. I seem to recall hitting this when I moved from Win7 to Win10, and there's no easy way to address it. The problem was that my username on the Win7 machine was JT, while my username on the Win10 machine was jefft. This meant that all the full paths in the files were wrong. It's not just the config files, like projects.txt, that were now pointing to a nonexistent place - the individual project files, the .jap files, were also affected.

jAlbum is self-healing in some respects, but depending upon how you had things set up, it gets confused. If, for example, your projects send their output to somewhere other than an album subfolder of the project, jAlbum gets lost. The output directory doesn't exist on your new PC, and you don't really want it be created with the old path.

Windows makes it fiendishly difficult to change your username, mostly because so many things are dependent on it. I wouldn't advise venturing down that path.

I seem to recall ending up opening the config files and all of the .jap files in a text editor, and doing a global search-and-replace. It required some care, but thankfully it had to be done only once.

Thank you for your suggestion. I'm currently working with the latest version of Jalbum. I did as you suggested. It lead me to the "My Albums" option. My projects are in the same "My Albums" folder that the address path on Jalbum leads to. Two "My Albums" are listed under the Recent Projects menu but nothing happens when I click on either "My Album" . I suspect I'm doing something wrong. If you can think of something I might be doing wrong, please let me know if you have time. Otherwise, I will try the other suggestion about the config file later on tonight when I can devote some time to it. Thanks again.

So what's the path of the MyAlbums folder you've moved the project folder to and what does the tool-tip reveal if you hover the mouse over "My Albums" ?

The path on the hover over is C:\Users\dangh\Documents\My Albums I believe that is the same as the path on my computer, though it is hard to know for sure the way the path is displayed in Windows 11 File Explorer. Thanks again.

If you have included the lifeboat file in your projects you can download the settings file for each project, see https://jalbum.net/help/en/Play_safe_with_jAlbum

You just need the "jalbum-settings.jap" file found inside the unzipped folder to open the project in jAlbum. Move the settings file inside the project, double click it and then do a 'Save' project'.

If you haven't included the lifeboat file search your old PC for all files starting with "jalbum-settings". Then copy them into the correct project on your new machine.

I hadn't responded yet, because I still haven't figured out how one could copy the projects from old PC to new, but leave behind the project settings files.