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This question helped me with how to export a profile configuration file, but how do I import that file into iterm2 on my new machine?

(the file I exported was called com.googlecode.iterm2.plist, for what it's worth)

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Stew
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just upload your *.plist to ~/Library/Preferences.
Notice, that checkbox:

Load preferences from a custom folder or URL

in Preferences - General (at the bottom) must be disabled.

David Resnick
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  1. First export all the profiles from iTerm2 as below:

    • Go to Profiles
    • Open Profiles
    • Edit Profiles
    • Other actions
    • Copy All Profiles as JSON
    • Save it to some place you will remember

  2. How to import from above JSON file format which is actually a plist format:

    • go to your home directory cd ~
    • cd Library/Application Support/iTerm2/DynamicProfiles
    • copy your json file you saves to this DynamicProfiles folder
    • cp {backuppath-where-you-exported-in-step1}/itermprofiles.json .

  3. Restart iTerm2 now in profiles it should show all your old profiles

Dean Jain
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    Thank you, it worked. But after all this, when I changed something in the loaded dynamic profile, the change is lost when I reload iTerm. The solution was to duplicate the loaded dynamic profile in `Preferences > Profiles` and set that one as default. – Rodrigo Pinto Jul 12 '19 at 13:42
  • Step 2 is described confusingly. Are you saying that, to import iTerm2 profiles from JSON, one should save the json as a file located at `~/Library/Application Support/iTerm2/DynamicProfiles/itermprofiles.json`? – Tom Jul 10 '20 at 23:28
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Here's how I import iTerm (iTerm2) JSON Profile files

Open iTerm and Select Profiles from menu enter image description here

Select Edit Profiles button
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Select Other Actions... button.
Then select "Import JSON Profiles...'
And then navigate Finder and select the profile you want to import enter image description here

Mike Barlow - BarDev
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I have a simple utility that creates iTerm2 json profiles from list of servers here : iTerm2profiles

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Just export the JSON file for all the profiles and then Import as shown above the page. This works fine for me. It saves a lot of time, as I've many profiles for web servers.

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