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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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