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2362363. Continue to the **Review** step and click **Import**.
2372374. When Claude Desktop asks whether the file is your own export, click **Import as my own**. Click it only for a file that you made yourself. **Import sessions only** imports the sessions, and only the projects and attached files that they use.
2382385. If the file has local MCP servers, a second dialog lists up to five of them with their commands. If you click **Add**, Claude Desktop tries to start all the listed servers right away, so click it only if you recognize every command. If a message then says that a server couldn't start, close it and finish the import. If you click **Don’t add**, the rest of the import continues.
2396. Note the folders that the last screen lists. If it lists **Local MCP servers not imported yet**, import the same file again.
2396. Note the folders that the last screen lists. If it lists **Local MCP servers not imported yet**, import the same file again. If it lists **Folders with Code sessions not imported yet**, repeat step 1 for those folders, then import the same file again.
2402407. Finish the setup:
241241 * Accept each project's instructions.
242242 * Copy your folders, and add them again under **Context** in each project.
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337337* **That export was made in another organization. Choose an export made in this organization.** Ask your administrator to check that both devices are in the same organization.
338338* **Only your sessions were imported.** Import the same file again, and click **Import as my own** when Claude Desktop asks. If it doesn't ask, update both devices to Claude Desktop 4.23118.0 or later and export again.
339339* **Sessions that you imported before are missing their attached files.** An export from a version before 4.23118.0 has no attached files, and a later import doesn't add files to a session that's already there. Under **Import history** in **Settings > Import & export**, remove the earlier import, then import the new file. This also deletes the projects that the earlier import made and anything that you added to those sessions since. A session that isn't in the new file doesn't come back.
340* **A Code session or a Code scheduled task is missing.** On Windows, if its folder is on a mapped network drive, it doesn't move. Ask your administrator to [copy your data](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/data-storage.md#copy-the-data-to-the-new-device), or create the task again. Otherwise, [copy its folder and trust it](#import-your-data-on-the-new-device), then import the file again. If a Code scheduled task is still missing, create it again.
340* **A Code session is missing.** [Copy and trust its folder](#import-your-data-on-the-new-device), then import the same file again and click **Import as my own**. On the last screen, Claude Desktop 5.1231.0 and later list the folders that you still need to copy and trust, under **Folders with Code sessions not imported yet**. If the last screen lists the folder under **Folders with Code sessions that can’t be imported**, or on Windows the folder is on a mapped network drive, the session doesn't move. Ask your administrator to [copy your data](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/data-storage.md#copy-the-data-to-the-new-device).
341* **A Code scheduled task is missing.** On Windows, if its folder is on a mapped network drive, it doesn't move. Ask your administrator to [copy your data](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/data-storage.md#copy-the-data-to-the-new-device), or create the task again. Otherwise, [copy its folder and trust it](#import-your-data-on-the-new-device), then import the file again. If the task is still missing, create it again.
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277277* **App preferences**: those that the user hasn't set on the new device apply right away
278278* **Project instructions**: Claude uses them after the user accepts them
279279* **Project files**: the import copies them into a new folder for each project
280* **Folders**: the import doesn't connect any to a project or a Cowork task. A Code session or a Code scheduled task keeps its folder only if the new device trusts that folder. The last screen lists the folders that the user's projects and scheduled tasks used.
280* **Folders**: the import doesn't connect any to a project or a Cowork task. It imports a Code session or a Code scheduled task only if the new device trusts its folder. The last screen lists the folders that the user's projects and scheduled tasks used. On Claude Desktop 5.1231.0 and later, it also lists [folders of Code sessions that weren't imported](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/import.md#problems-when-you-move-to-another-device).
281281* **Uploaded plugins, saved skills, and scheduled tasks**: they stay off until the user turns them on. Setting [`userPluginUploadsEnabled`](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration#userpluginuploadsenabled), [`skillCreationEnabled`](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration#skillcreationenabled), or [`scheduledTasksEnabled`](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration#scheduledtasksenabled) to `false` keeps that kind of data out of the import.
282282* **Local MCP servers**: for each import, a second dialog lists up to five servers with their full commands and environment variables. Claude Desktop tries to start the servers that the user adds right away. Blocks that the user set on tools on the old device don't apply, because tool permissions aren't imported. The app writes no values of these servers' environment variables into an export. Until the user enters the values, a server might not work, or might run without a limit that the user set in a variable. Setting [`isLocalDevMcpEnabled`](https://claude.com/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration#islocaldevmcpenabled) to `false` keeps local MCP servers out of the export and the import.
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