How do I merge presets? No official solution

Discussion & Questions
1

There doesn't seem to be an official way to merge presets.

The only solutions I could find on the forum are the following:

Example
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Source: Merging 2 presets presets

The above screenshot basically list two possible solutions:

  1. Copy and paste triggers (so the pasted triggers land in your master preset)
  2. Manually move triggers to your target preset using the right-click dropdown menu

Both methods do not work and produce buggy results.

I recorded a 2-minute Loom video showing the issues with both solutions:

BetterTouchTool Version: 4.037
MacOS Version: 13.2.1 (22D68)

2

I watched the video, maybe I misunderstand, but you are moving actions to preset A that are already in preset A.

3

Yes all my triggers (aka actions) already belong to preset A, but the apps they are inside of do not seem to belong to preset A.

Example:
App: Photoshop (seems to belong to preset B)
• Trigger 1 (belongs to preset A)
• Trigger 2 (belongs to preset A)

If I delete preset B, the Photoshop app and the two triggers get deleted from BTT.

I have no idea how to transfer ownership of the Photoshop app from Preset B to Preset A.

Am I missing something here?

4

Ah that is currently a limitation when copy & pasting a whole app. I'll fix that.

For now add the app manually to the other preset before pasting.

5

Understood, thank you.

I actually did try to add apps to the other preset before pasting.

However once I turned both presets on and proceeded to do the copy & paste, I came across two new problems:

  1. The pasting was buggy and unreliable. Sometimes nothing happened. Sometimes there were duplicates. Sometimes there were errors.
  2. When deleting one of the duplicate apps, I lost all triggers in the remaining one and there was a scary error message. It fixed itself after a BTT restart.

This whole process is so painful and fills me with fear of data loss :disappointed_relieved:

  • I would like to feature suggest a "Merge Presets" button in the preset selector.
  • Clicking on that button will show a popup that allows you to select the presets to merge as well as the merged preset name.