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xenial-black
Can I export my playtime for a game into a new installation of Heroic?
I'm wanting to switch Linux distributions which will require a re-install of Heroic Games Launcher. Is there any way I can transfer or export the playtime data into the new installation without resetting the play time?
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xenial-blackOP•3y ago
One idea I thought of was if I made a backup copy of all the game files for each individual game, and imported them into the new installation; it might bring the playtime data over to the new installation. But that would only work if the game data folder is located in the same location as where the playtime info is stored.
Playtime data is stored in
~/.config/heroic/store/timestamp.json (non-flatpak) or ~/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/store/timestamp.json (flatpak).
Copying that file & placing it in the same location on your new install should preserve the dataxenial-blackOP•3y ago
Thankyou @CommandMC. So would I make a backup copy of timestamp.json and copy it into the same "store" folder in the new installation? And does this timestamp.json contain the playtime for all games, or just an individual game?
Also, there are some other files in that folder like config.json. Should I also copy all of these files?
Now, even if this is one way of transferring this info. Is there any other straightforward options? Do you know of anything else I should transfer over too?
"Copying that file & placing it in the same location on your new install should preserve the data"
Ah, sorry, I didn't see that sentence on the first read