How to run TweetDeck on multiple machines if you don't have a TweetDeck account.

I'm a big fan of TweetDeck. I love that you can setup multiple groups to organize the people you follow and only read what you're really interested in. The problem I ran into is that I use multiple machines. Setting up my groups and assigning people to them on each machine was not something I was really excited about. Unless you have a TweetDeck account, Tweetdeck doesn't have a built-in export feature but there is a fairly easy way to copy your settings and preferences from one machine to another. There are two files where this information is stored; preferences_username.xml and td_26_username.db (not sure if that number is the same for everyone but you get the idea). All you need to do is copy those files from one machine to the other and voila! The paths to the files are below.

Mac: user/Library/Preferences/TweetDeckFast[bunch of numbers]/Local Store/

Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\TweetDeckFast[bunch of numbers]\Local Store\

It's not ideal, especially if you make a lot of changes to your settings but it's better than nothing.