# How to migrate Signal Desktop to new machine?

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**Category:** Applications\
**Created:** [September 30, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/how-to-migrate-signal-desktop-to-new-machine/46130 "2023-09-30T13:53:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![milkytwix](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/milkytwix/32/84303_2.png) [@milkytwix](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/milkytwix)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/how-to-migrate-signal-desktop-to-new-machine/46130/4 "2023-09-30T14:22:39Z")

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Installing Signal and then overwriting ~/.config/Signal/ on the new machine with the content of the old machine will most probably do the trick - at least this is what I did in the past, and it worked quite well.

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