# Simple Clone UI to all other characters Button **URL:** \ **Category:** Player Features & Ideas\ **Created:** [February 15, 2023, 3:36am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/simple-clone-ui-to-all-other-characters-button/395647 "2023-02-15T03:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_Rochard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/john_rochard/32/373864_2.png) [@John\_Rochard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/John_Rochard)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 3:36am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/simple-clone-ui-to-all-other-characters-button/395647/1 "2023-02-15T03:36:56Z")
CCP needs to add a simple import/export feature for ALL settings. As it stands currently, you need to possess a level of technical skill with your PC. I browsed many pages and still didn’t find the correct answer for my system. This is my best effort to help you clone all your character settings. 1. First pick a character as the default setup and get all the UI and setting tabs working the way you like them. This is not only OS dependent, it depends on Steam or non Steam. **Windows non Steam Version** 2. You will search for some DAT files within: c:\users\yourname\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\c\_games\_eve\_TQ\_tranquility\settings\_Default The DAT files are prefixed with core\_char and core\_user, you should be able to do a wildcard file search to find them. **Windows Steam Version** 2. You will also need to find the DAT files, however they are buried in layers under your Steam Library. The default location of the Steam Library is; \*_C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\*_ This gets a little different as they might be buried in; steamapps\compatdata\8500\pfx\drive\_c\users\steamuser\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE **Linux OS Steam Version** 2. Linux doesn’t use drive letters so you will be looking for the hidden Steam Library off the Home Partition. You should be able to find them buried in the location of these using a simple file search on the core\_user and core\_char DAT files. 1. Move (don’t delete) the whole folder containing the default settings. My folder was labeled settings\_Default. You can place it on your desktop or in another system folder. The point is, we need EVE to make us a new clean settings folder. 2. Jump back into EVE and open your default character game. Login only to the one character and quit the game. 3. Now open both folders side by side. On one side we have the old settings and on the other side is the new default. Look for only the files that match and copy from the old to the new, overwriting the new files. There should be only one core\_user file and one core\_char file with roughly 10 numbers following it. This is the master files. Clone these core files using the other numbered names. For example; core\_char\_ 5171234567.DAT is the only one in the new default. In your old default you have 6 characters; core\_char\_ 5171234567.DAT - Only this one will be used as the master file to be copied to the others. core\_char\_ 5179876543.DAT core\_char\_ 5171212121.DAT core\_char\_ 5176767667.DAT core\_char\_ 5171454544.DAT core\_char\_ 5171299999.DAT 1. core\_user is the user settings and is handled the same way. If you have more than one you need to clone them otherwise the one core file needs to overwrite the new default. 2. Finish up by moving any remaining files not duplicated into your new default folder. 3. Play and inspect the game settings for all your characters. 4. Remove the old default folder or keep it as a back up copy. It doesn’t take up much space and may come in handy. As anyone can see this is still a lot of work. Players should never be expected to be their own IT support. As stated, this is too much for any novice player and could be simplified by a button in game. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/simple-clone-ui-to-all-other-characters-button/395647)._