# Is there a easy way to copy saved hosts?

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**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [May 31, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/is-there-a-easy-way-to-copy-saved-hosts/1013 "2020-05-31T21:12:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Susurrus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/susurrus/32/472_2.png) [@Susurrus](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/Susurrus)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/is-there-a-easy-way-to-copy-saved-hosts/1013/1 "2020-05-31T21:12:52Z")

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I am working on upgrading to V19 from 18 and I am wondering if there is a way to transfer all my saved hosts from the 18 client to 19? I have always just remade them but each time I upgrade the list of saved hosts is growing. It would be nice if there was a file I could copy over.

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**Author:** ![planteg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/planteg/32/627_2.png) [@planteg](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/planteg)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/is-there-a-easy-way-to-copy-saved-hosts/1013/2 "2020-05-31T21:35:43Z")

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My guess is that this is information is stored in different places for Windows and MacOS.

I googled for "filemaker "saved hosts" where", found this [Claris Community (English)](https://community.claris.com/en/s/question/0D50H00006dskG7SAI/where-server-ip-addresses-are-stored-on-fm-client), which pointed to [FileMakerPKB](https://support.claris.com/s/answerview?anum=000023350&language=en_US)

Note the last link points to very old information - as usual without a date - talking about FileMaker 10. But maybe this can help you find where these are now found.

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**Author:** ![Susurrus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/susurrus/32/472_2.png) [@Susurrus](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/Susurrus)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/is-there-a-easy-way-to-copy-saved-hosts/1013/3 "2020-05-31T21:45:46Z")

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Thanks for the response. I should have said it was for windows. That link for sure looks like worth looking into I will report back if it works out.

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**Author:** ![WimDecorte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@WimDecorte](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/WimDecorte)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/is-there-a-easy-way-to-copy-saved-hosts/1013/4 "2020-05-31T23:13:28Z")

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It's in the registry, under the "current user" hive:

HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\SOFTWARE\FileMaker\FileMaker Pro Advanced\18.0\FavHostInfo

So be a little careful if you are not familiar with the registry

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**Author:** ![planteg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/planteg/32/627_2.png) [@planteg](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/planteg)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/is-there-a-easy-way-to-copy-saved-hosts/1013/5 "2020-05-31T23:16:07Z")

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The document is still correct. On my tower running Windows 10, this is what I found under Ordinateur\HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\Software\FileMaker\FileMaker Pro Advanced\17.0\FavHostInfo\Entry0

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/fmsoup/original/1X/58c70bddb4739021149736174e0bf28009d4e576.png)

This is for version 17, my guess is that it is still Ok for 18 and 19 !