How to export import PuTTy sessions list

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Is there a way to do this   Or I have to take manually every record from Registry

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If you  like me  installed new Windows and only after you remember about putty sessions  you can still import them  if you have old Windows hard drive or at least your old  home  directory backed up  C  Users  lt user name gt     In this directory there should be NTUSER DAT file  It is hidden by default  so you should enable hidden files in your Windows explorer or use another file browser  This file contains the HKEY CURRENT USER branch of your old Windows registry   To use it  you need to open regedit on your new Windows  and select HKEY USERS key   Then select File -  Load Hive    and find your old  home  directory of your old Windows installation  In this directory there should be NTUSER DAT file  It is hidden by default  so  if you didn t enable to show hidden files in your Windows explorer properties  then you can just manually enter file name into File name input box of  Load Hive  dialog and press Enter  Then in the next dialog window enter some key name to load old registry into it  e g  tmp   Your old registry s HKEY CURRENT USER branch now should be accessible under HKEY USERS tmp branch of your current registry   Now export HKEY USERS tmp Software SimonTatham branch into putty reg file  open this file in your favorite text editor and find-and-replace all HKEY USERS tmp string with HKEY CURRENT USER  Now save the  reg file   You can import now this file into your current Windows registry by double-clicking it  See m0nhawk s answer how to do this   In the end  select HKEY USERS tmp branch in the registry editor and then select File -  Unload Hive    and confirm this operation

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When I tried the other solutions I got this error   Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator    Phooey to that  I say   I put together the below powershell scripts for exporting and importing PuTTY settings  The exported file is a windows  reg file and will import cleanly if you have permission  otherwise use import ps1 to load it   Warning  messing with the registry like this is a Bad Idea     and I don t really know what I m doing  Use the  below scripts at your own risk  and be prepared to have your IT department re-image your machine and ask you uncomfortable questions about what you were doing   On the source machine     export ps1   On the target machine     import ps1  gt  cmd ps1   Examine cmd ps1 to ensure it doesn t do anything nasty   cmd ps1   export ps1    All settings  registry path    HKCU  Software SimonTatham    Only sessions   registry path    HKCU  Software SimonTatham PuTTY Sessions   output file    putty reg    registry   ls   registry path  -Recurse   Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00    Out-File putty reg      Out-File putty reg -Append  foreach   reg in  registry         reg     Out-File putty reg -Append   foreach   prop in  reg property         propval    reg GetValue  prop      if     GetType   Equals  propval GetType                     prop                        propval          Out-File putty reg -Append       elseif   propval -is  int            hex     0 x8   -f  propval               prop            dword      hex   Out-File putty reg -Append                  Out-File putty reg -Append     import ps1   input file    putty reg    content   Get-Content   input file    Push-Location   cd HKCU     foreach   line in  content       If   line StartsWith  Windows Registry Editor            Ignore the header     ElseIf   line startswith              section    line Trim   Trim                New-Item -Path       section      -Force          -replace  HKEY CURRENT USER              ElseIf   line startswith              linesplit    line split      2       key    linesplit 0  Trim          if   linesplit 1  StartsWith                value    linesplit 1  Trim   Trim            ElseIf   linesplit 1  StartsWith  dword              value    Int32   0x     linesplit 1  Trim   Split      2  1          New-ItemProperty       section            key      -PropertyType dword -Force          -replace  HKEY CURRENT USER                Else         Write-Host  Error  unknown property type   linesplit 1         exit            Set-ItemProperty -Path       section      -Name       key      -Value       value               -replace  HKEY CURRENT USER                  Pop-Location    Apologies for the non-idiomatic code  I m not very familiar with Powershell  Improvements are welcome

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For those of you who need to import Putty from offline registry file e g  when you are recovering from crashed system or simply moving to a new machine and grabbing data off that old drive there is one more solution worth mentioning   http   www nirsoft net utils registry file offline export html  This great and free console application will export the entire registry or only a specific registry key  In my case i simply copied the registry file from an old drive to the same directory as the exporter tool and then i used following command and syntax in CMD window run as administrator   RegFileExport exe NTUSER DAT putty reg  HKEY CURRENT USER Software SimonTatham   After importing the  reg file and starting Putty everything was there  Simple and efficient

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An improvement to the solution of bumerang to import data to PuTTY portable   Simply moving exported putty reg  with m0nhawk solution  to PuTTYPortable Data settings  didn t work  PuTTY Portable backup the file and create a new empty one   To workaround this issue  merge both putty reg copying manually the config you want to migrate from your exported putty reg to the newly created PuTTYPortable Data settings putty reg below following lines   REGEDIT4   HKEY CURRENT USER Software SimonTatham PuTTY   RandSeedFile   D   Programme  PuTTYPortable  Data  settings  PUTTY RND

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Export  cmd exe  require elevated prompt   Only sessions   regedit  e   USERPROFILE  Desktop putty-sessions reg  HKEY CURRENT USER Software SimonTatham PuTTY Sessions   All settings   regedit  e   USERPROFILE  Desktop putty reg  HKEY CURRENT USER Software SimonTatham     Powershell   Only sessions   reg export HKCU Software SimonTatham PuTTY Sessions   Environment   GetFolderPath  Desktop       putty-sessions reg     All settings   reg export HKCU Software SimonTatham   Environment   GetFolderPath  Desktop       putty reg       Import  Double-click on the   reg file and accept the import   Alternative ways   cmd exe  require elevated command prompt   regedit  i putty-sessions reg regedit  i putty reg   PowerShell   reg import putty-sessions reg reg import putty reg     Note  do not replace SimonTatham with your username   Note  It will create a reg file on the Desktop of the current user   Note  It will not export related SSH keys

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For those who don t want to mess with the registry  a variation of putty that saves to file has been created  It is located here  http   jakub kotrla net putty   It would be nice if the putty team would take this as an option into the main distribution

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I use putty connection manager  where you create a database of sessions  It s easy to copy and import that database to other computers    See this handy guide

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The answer posted by  m0nhawk doesn t seem to work as I test on a Windows 7 machine  Instead  using the following scripts would export import the settings of putty     export  echo off set regfile putty reg pushd   dp0  reg export HKCU Software SimonTatham  regfile   y  popd   --    import  echo off pushd   dp0 set regfile putty reg  if exist  regfile  reg import  regfile   popd

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This was so much easier importing the registry export than what is stated above    Simply    right click on the file and  select  Merge     Worked like a champ on Win 7 Pro

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Using this method it is also possible to perform mass configuration changes  such as changing the all sessions font    Export to  reg Perform a search and replace over  reg Remove all sessions Import the new  reg   Extracted from here  http   www sysadmit com 2015 11 putty-exportar-configuracion html

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Launch Run   then type in the Open drop down window  regedit                             Navigate to  just like in Window s Explorer  HKEY CURRENT USER Software SimonTatham                                      Right click on  SimonTatham  key  directory icon   select Export Give the file a name  say  putty reg and save it to your location for later use                                                                   Close Registry Editor    Done

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Example  How to transfer putty configuration and session configuration from one user account to another e g  when created a new account and want to use the putty sessions configurations from the old account  Process   - Export registry key from old account into a file  - Import registry key from file into new account  Export reg key   from OLD account     Login into the OLD account e g  tomold Open normal   command prompt   NOT admin    Type  regedit  Navigate to registry section where the configuration is being stored e g   HKEY CURRENT USER SOFTWARE SimonTatham  and click on it Select  Export  from the file menu or right mouse click  radio ctrl  selected branch   Save into file and name it e g   puttyconfig reg  Logout again   Import reg key   into NEW account     Login into NEW account e g  tom Open normal  command prompt   NOT admin    Type  regedit  Select  Import  from the menu Select the registry file to import e g   puttyconfig reg  Done   Note  Do not use an  admin command prompt  as settings are located under   HKEY CURRENT USER      and regedit would run as admin and show that section for the admin-user rather then for the user to transfer from and or to

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If You want to import settings on PuTTY Portable You can use the  putty reg file   Just put it to this path  path to Your portable apps PuTTYPortable Data settings putty reg  Program will import it

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m0nhawk s answer didn t work for me on Windows 10 - it required elevated command prompt and refused to emit a file    This worked and didn t require elevation   reg export HKEY CURRENT USER Software SimonTatham PuTTY putty reg

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There is a PowerShell script at ratil life first-useful-powershell-script-putty-to-ssh-config which can convert the sessions to a format that can be used in  ssh config   It can also be found on GitHub   This excerpt contains the main guts of the code  and will print the resulting config directly to stdout     Registry path to PuTTY configured profiles  regPath    HKCU  SOFTWARE SimonTatham PuTTY Sessions     Iterate over each PuTTY profile Get-ChildItem  regPath -Name   ForEach-Object          Check if SSH config     if    Get-ItemProperty -Path   regPath      Protocol  -eq  ssh               Write the Host for easy SSH use          host nospace      replace   20    SpaceChar           hostLine     Host  host nospace             Parse Hostname for special use cases  Bastion  to create SSH hostname          puttyHostname    Get-ItemProperty -Path   regPath      HostName         if   puttyHostname -like                       sshHostname    puttyHostname split      -1                        else    sshHostname    puttyHostname            hostnameLine     tHostName  sshHostname                Parse Hostname for special cases  Bastion  to create User         if   puttyHostname -like                       sshUser    puttyHostname split      0    puttyHostname split      length - 2   -join                           else    sshHostname    puttyHostname            userLine     tUser  sshUser                Parse for Identity File          puttyKeyfile    Get-ItemProperty -Path   regPath      PublicKeyFile         if   puttyKeyfile                  sshKeyfile    puttyKeyfile replace                       if   prefix     sshKeyfile    sshKeyfile replace  C     prefix                 identityLine     tIdentityFile  sshKeyfile                           Parse Configured Tunnels          puttyTunnels    Get-ItemProperty -Path   regPath      PortForwardings         if   puttyTunnels                 puttyTunnels split     ForEach-Object                      First character denotes tunnel type                  tunnelType      Substring 0 1                    Digits follow tunnel type is local port                  tunnelPort      -match   d  d         Foreach   Matches 0                     Text after     is the tunnel destination                  tunnelDest      split      1                   if   tunnelType -eq  D                          tunnelLine     tDynamicForward  tunnelPort  tunnelDest                                     ElseIf   tunnelType -eq  R                          tunnelLine     tRemoteForward  tunnelPort  tunnelDest                                     ElseIf   tunnelType -eq  L                          tunnelLine     tLocalForward  tunnelPort  tunnelDest                                              Parse if Forward Agent is required          puttyAgent    Get-ItemProperty -Path   regPath      AgentFwd         if   puttyAgent -eq 1     agentLine     tForwardAgent yes               Parse if non-default port          puttyPort    Get-ItemProperty -Path   regPath      PortNumber         if  -Not  puttyPort -eq 22     PortLine     tPort  puttyPort                          Build output string          output     hostLine n hostnameLine n userLine n identityLine n tunnelLine n agentLine n             Output to file if set  otherwise STDOUT         if   outfile     output   Out-File  outfile -Append          else   Write-Host  output

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