Backup Sketch settings and plugins?

over 4 years ago from C R, Product designer

So, scenario is that I have work laptop, work computer and personal laptop but all plugins and settings are different.

Is there a system, plugin etc that anyone knows off that allows me to sync to a cloud service and then log in to the other systems and sync those.

Backup settings
Sync to another computer so everything is the same.

I recently done the same thing with Alfred app, which uses dropbox to backup and sync the settings.

8 comments

Nick M, over 4 years ago
I wonder if you could do something like this with Dropbox and symlinks.
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- C R, over 4 years ago
  Actually, that might be possible, I'll give it a try
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  - Andrew Ciobanasiu, over 4 years ago
    It's definitely possible. I had a setup going like this for a while. IIRC, Sketch had something in their help center similar to this process: https://sketchtalk.io/discussion/2300/synchronising-plugins-between-machines-using-symlink
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Sean Goodwin, over 4 years ago
It's not perfect for your problem, but you can export your 'Managed' plugins from Sketchpacks. It at least saves the headache of remembering your list.
https://sketchpacks.com/
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- C R, over 4 years ago
  Yeah agreed, gives me a part solution,
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- Adam Kirkwood, over 4 years ago
  Sketchpacks allows you to both import/export a sketchpack to essentially backup your installed plugins.
  If you want to sync your plugins across machines, simply export a new sketchpack file or move an existing one to a shared directory.
  Next, open up Sketchpacks Preferences and change the location of the preferred sketchpack you'd like to use.
  Scroll down in Preferences and choose your sync'ing rules.
  Sketch settings/configuration is out of scope for Sketchpacks though.
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Duke Cavinski, over 4 years ago
I asked them about this feature and they said they don’t support it. Agreed because at least Adobe lets you save settings in the cloud.
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- C R, over 4 years ago
  With their new "Teams" feature, I thought this would be ideal, but I guess not
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