Moving logs from Vanilla / Rising

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Using the web client in your browser instead of a desktop install? Its logs live in browser storage, not on disk. See Importing from the F-Chat web client for how to pull those into a Horizon export with the F-Porter userscript.

Folder locations

By default, F-Chat 3.0 and Rising store their data in the following folders:

Operating System	Data Path
Windows	%AppData%\fchat
MacOS	~/Library/Application Support/fchat
Linux	~/.config/fchat

By default, Horizon stores its data in the following folders:

Operating System	Data Path
Windows	%AppData%\horizon-electron
MacOS	~/Library/Application Support/horizon-electron
Linux	~/.config/horizon-electron

These folders might be hidden by default, so you may need to enable a setting to display hidden folders in your file explorer.

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On Windows, you can easily go to your user's AppData folder by typing %AppData% (percent signs included) in File Explorer's address bar.

How to move your logs

Currently, there's two ways of moving your logs over: using the built-in importer, or manually copying the log files. The importer requires less work from you and is our recommended way of doing it.

With the Importer (Recommended)

Horizon will automatically prompt you to import your data when you first launch it, if it detects compatible Vanilla client data. However, to do it manually:

1. Open the menu (the ☰ icon in the top-left) and go to Horizon → Manage Data
   • (On Mac, you'll need to click the Horizon menu bar item instead)
2. Select the "Import from Vanilla" tab
3. (Optional) If Horizon can't find your Vanilla data automatically, click "Browse…" to manually select the folder
4. Choose which data to import:
   • App-wide settings
   • Character settings
   • Pinned eicons
   • Character logs
5. Check "Overwrite existing Horizon data when conflicts occur" if you want to replace existing data, otherwise new data will be merged
6. Select which characters to include
7. Click "Import selected data" to complete the import

Manually

Inside the fchat folder there should be a folder called data, here you should see folders for all your characters' logs:

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Though this screenshot is from Windows, the process should be the same for other platforms too. Just mind the different folder names in the tables above.

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No character folders in the F-chat data folder? Check that you haven't changed the log save location in the settings: ⚙️ > F-Chat > Change log location.

Horizon uses the same kind of folder structure, so if you have already started the app once, inside the horizon-electron folder you should also find a data folder. You can simply copy the folders for your characters from Rising's data folder into Horizon's data folder, and if you restart Horizon it should load the logs like usual.

WARNING

Please don't copy over files like eicons.json, window.json or settings. The formats they're in might not be compatible with current versions of Horizon and could break things.