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- | How to move your account between servers | + | ====== |
- | ============ | + | |
- | * [Home](help) | + | <alert type=" |
+ | * Go to “Settings” -> “Export personal data” | ||
+ | * Click on “Export account” to save your account data. | ||
+ | * **Save the file in a secure place!** It contains your details, your contacts, groups, and personal settings. It also contains your secret keys to authenticate yourself to your contacts. | ||
+ | * Go to your new server, and open // | ||
+ | * Do NOT create a new account prior to importing your old settings - uimport should be used //instead// of register. | ||
+ | * Load your saved account file and click “Import”. | ||
+ | * After the move, the account on the old server will not work reliably anymore, and should be not used. | ||
- | ! **This is an experimental feature** | + | ===== Friendica contacts ===== |
- | * Go to " | + | Friendica will recreate |
- | * Click on " | + | |
- | * **Save | + | |
- | * Go to your new server, and open *http:// | + | |
- | * Do NOT create a new account prior to importing | + | |
- | * Load your saved account file and click " | + | |
- | * After the move, the account | + | |
+ | ===== GNU Social contacts ===== | ||
- | Friendica contacts | + | Contacts on GNU Social |
- | --- | + | |
- | Friendica | + | |
- | A message is sent to Friendica contacts, to inform them about your move: | + | |
- | If your contacts are runnning on an updated server, your details on their side will be automatically updated. | + | |
- | GNU Social | + | ===== Diaspora |
- | --- | + | |
- | Contacts on GNU Social will be archived, as we can't inform them about your move. | + | |
- | You should ask them to remove your contact from their lists and re-add you, and you should do the same with their contact. | + | |
- | Diaspora contacts | + | Newer Diaspora servers are able to process |
- | --- | + | |
- | Newer Diaspora servers are able to process | + | |