# Export format plist URL data?
**URL:** https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481
**Category:** Discussion & Help
**Created:** [May 26, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481 "2019-05-26T23:10:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@jerdogma](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/jerdogma)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481/1 "2019-05-26T23:10:11Z")
Hello!
I’m new to Hook. I’m working through a way of making it work on multiple computers, until this is officially supported. I’m thinking about a way to merge exports from each computer.
I’d like to understand a bit about the export format that Hook uses. It looks like each string is a URL, but there is extra data at the end of each URL. Does anyone know what the data is at the end of each URL?
Thanks!
Jerry
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### Author:  [@stevelw](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/stevelw)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2019, 6:06am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481/2 "2019-05-27T06:06:54Z")
It’s probably the title in base 64
> [@Link to New… Ulysses](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/link-to-new-ulysses/409/2):
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> I can’t believe you made that work, stevelw, you’re a hero for trying figuring this out and hacking it together $link should be replaced with the URL with “$$$” and the title of the document encrypted in base 64 appended to it e.g. “hook://ulysses/nZ1PkBDwaIySNPSh0zN\_TA$$$VGVjaG5vcGhvYmlh” “hook://ulysses/nZ1PkBDwaIySNPSh0zN\_TA” is the link “$$$” is just a separator to make it easy to parse “VGVjaG5vcGhvYmlh” is the title of the linked doc, encoded in base64 In my experience though, Ulys…
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### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481/3 "2019-05-28T01:00:01Z")
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### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481/4 "2019-05-28T02:51:53Z")
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### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 5:42am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481/5 "2019-05-28T05:42:55Z")
Welcome to Hook and to its forum, @jerdogma .
The import / export mechanism is currently only intended for use by Hook itself (import). We haven’t publicly documented its format, as I’m sure you’ve found. We will be refining and further documenting it before golden master, as well as saying more about multi-computer cases – we agree they are extremely important.
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### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481/6 "2019-05-28T18:25:03Z")
by the way, regarding
> This topic was automatically closed after 24 hours. New replies are no longer allowed.
I don’t know why the topic was closed by Discourse yesterday, let alone why the closure was associated with my account. We’re investigating. Anyway, as noted above, I re-opened it and responded.
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### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481/7 "2019-05-30T15:47:15Z")
> [@LucB](#):
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> I don’t know why the topic was closed by Discourse yesterday,
Mystery solved, with thanks to @jrivett. To be reminded of the topic, I meant to setup a “user topic timer”, but must evidently setup a “topic timer” instead. The latter automatically closes a topic after an interval.
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### Author:  [@DMisener](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/DMisener)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481/8 "2023-11-23T16:55:31Z")
Hard to believe this thread has been dormant for over 4 years…
I currently need to migrate a _subset_ of Hook links from to one iMac to another and found no easy migration path. Have I missed something obvious?
BTW: Just to complicate matters, there are already local hook links on the target iMac so I can’t just migrate the hook.sqlite database ☹
Any suggestions would be certainly be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@bchend](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/bchend)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481/9 "2023-11-23T17:48:51Z")
Sorry about this, @DMisener .
I am not sure I fully understand your problem. Hookmark’s sync feature can do the merging links. But you can’t specify which links you want to merge. Is that OK for you?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/export-format-plist-url-data/481/10 "2023-11-23T23:53:57Z")
There’s info here: [How to Backup and Restore Hookmark Data – Hookmark](https://hookproductivity.com/help/more/how-to-backup-and-restore-hook-data).