here’s the new guide for copy settings between characters. It works under Windows 7, 8.1 and 10.
Personally tested under Windows 10 and 7.
The Overview can be saved and exported/imported directly in game. But not the windows settings, arrangement, UI, buttons, etc. Or at least I don’t know how to, past this procedure.
Navigate to “C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE”
Here you have 2 folders named “xyzabcd_tranquility”. You need to locate the exact folder. Just enter in both folders and then in one of the “settings” folder. You must have files named “core_char_xyzabcd” (for the character) and “core_user_xyzabcd” (for the account) where xyzabcd is a number.
In my case the folder is “f_eve_sharedcache_tq_tranquility\settings_f_eve_online_tranquility”.
If you can’t locate the exact folder, follow step 3 and then retry.
Open the Eve Launcher, start the game with the account and the character from which you want to copy the settings. Then logoff and close the Launcher.
With this, it will be easier to locate the files with the “Last Modified” date attribute. There are 2 DAT files, one named “core_char_xyzabcd.dat” (for the character) and one named “core_user_xyzabcd.dat” (for the account).
If you jumped the step 2, now you can locate the folder easily.
DO A BACKUP. Backup all folder, backup all files, do what you want. But do a backup.
After the backup, redo the step 3, but this time with the other account and/or character you want to copy the settings.
Now you can locate easily again
Do a backup of these files too, if you hadn’t already done.
Now you have simply to rename the DAT files.
For example:
7.1) my account is the file “core_user_880832.dat”, the character is the file “core_char_93198572.dat”. I want to copy those settings to other accounts and characters
7.2) the other account is “core_user_2434402.dat” and character "core_char_332195920.dat"
7.3) I make a copy of the files of step 7.1, then delete the files of step 7.2 and rename the copies (from “core_user_880832 - Copy.dat” to “core_user_2434402.dat” and from “core_char_93198572 - Copy.dat” to “core_char_332195920.dat”)
Try to login and play. Now you have the settings copied.
Remember:
do always a backup of everything
the file “core_user” is the file related to the account
the file “core_char” is the file related to the character
if you have only 1 account, you have only 1 “core_user” file. Just copy/rename only the “core_char” file
I had to figure this out myself before realizing this post, haha! Yes, this is not intuitive at all, and the launcher “profile copy” doesn’t really function this way. Seems it only copies entire account data, and isn’t capable of doing character by character copying.
Would be the entry for the crontab in Linux or mac os (must be one line!!!)
On windoze you have to create a text file and copy this:
echo “Making EVE settings backup”
7z u -t7z C:\Users%USERNAME%\Myfiles\Documents\YourBackupFileName.7z -mx=6 “C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\c_tq_tranquility\settings_Default”
echo Done
Pause
inside the text file. Rename the text file to YourBackupBatchFileName.cmd with however you want but it always must end with .cmd in windows (all windows since 3.0 - 10)
Do not leave out the quotes or the command won’t work! 7-zip needs the quotes whenever you have “funny” file or folder names.
Second advice:
Make a dropbox account with 2FA enabled and link or copy the files into the cloud (best is once a day), so you keep them even when your computer dies.
Thanks for this! I always hated resizing all the windows after a fresh install on multiple characters. Coming back to the game after 3 years, this process made my life so much easier when I decided to fire up the alts.