Import CC Uploader Tasks into CC Sync

Overview

Already running CC Uploader? CC Sync can take the task list you built there and convert it - no need to rebuild every task by hand in the wizard. This guide walks you through the whole move: export from the old app, import into CC Sync, and a short review at the end so you know exactly what changed.

Before you begin

• CC Sync installed and logged in. Not there yet? Start with the CC Sync Quick Start.
• Access to CC Uploader - the export happens in the old app. If the two apps live on different machines, you'll move one small .json file between them; a USB stick or a network share is plenty.
• Admin Lock unlocked. While task editing is locked in CC Sync, Import Legacy Tasks… is blocked (see Admin Lock).
• Log in to the same organization your CC Uploader tasks uploaded to - during the import, CC Sync re-matches each task's destination against the account you're logged in to.

Note: if IT locked the task list in your old CC Uploader, opening the old app's Admin window in Step 1 requires that old admin password.

Step 1 · Export your tasks from CC Uploader

CC Uploader exports its entire task list at once - a single JSON file - from its Admin window.

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1. 1 Click the tools button in the bottom-left corner of the CC Uploader window. The Admin window opens.

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1. 1 Click Save Configuration.

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1. 1 Keep the suggested name - CCUploader Task Export.json - or type your own, and pick a location you'll find again (the Desktop works fine).
2. 2 Click Save. This one file now holds your whole task list.

Meet the example tasks

Through this guide we'll follow two tasks built in CC Uploader - one watching a local folder, one watching a network share - so you can see exactly what the import does with each.

Example task 1 - watches a local folder

Example task 2 - watches a network share

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1. 1 This task watches a network share (the Auto Mount tab) - during the import, CC Sync will ask for this share's credentials (Step 3).

Step 2 · Import into CC Sync

Over to CC Sync.

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1. 1 Open the Tasks menu…
2. 2 …and click Import Legacy Tasks…

Before anything happens, CC Sync shows a short heads-up:

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1. 1 Read it once: not everything maps 1‑to‑1, a report will list the differences, and imported tasks start paused.
2. 2 Optional: tick Don't show this again to skip this note on future imports.
3. 3 Click Continue.

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1. 1 Select the file you exported in Step 1…
2. 2 …and click Open.

A progress bar runs while CC Sync converts your tasks and re-matches their destinations against the server. If any task watches a network share, the import pauses to ask for credentials - that's next.

Step 3 · Network folders ask for credentials

Network-share credentials don't travel with the export - CC Sync asks for them once per network folder, and the dialog names the folder it's asking about. What you enter is saved in your operating system's secure storage and reused automatically from then on, including the silent re-mount after a network hiccup.

The import pauses and asks

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1. 1 Fill in the username and password that have access to this share.
2. 2 Press Test Connection to check the path and credentials.
3. 3 When the test passes, press Save - the import continues with the next task.

After a successful test

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1. 1 Connection successful. - now press Save. A red message instead? Fix the credentials (or the share path) and test again - don't save until the test passes.

If you press Cancel instead, that one task is dropped from the import (the report lists it as Error) - the rest continue normally. Nothing is lost: sort out the credentials and run the import again, or create that task manually.

Step 4 · Read the import report

When the run finishes, Legacy Import Complete sums up the import: the headline says how many tasks came through, and each task that changed on the way gets its notes below. A task that converted 1‑to‑1 isn't listed - it's simply counted in the headline.

Read the notes. Most are purely informational: CC Sync simply behaves differently, and no action is needed. A note only requires action when it says something was not found or asks you to configure something manually - typically a destination that no longer exists on your account. That task still imports; you'll fix it in the next step.

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1. 1 The headline - how many tasks were imported.
2. 2 Notes appear only for tasks with differences - here Task 2 (Task 1 imported 1‑to‑1, so it isn't listed). Both notes are informational: CC Sync always monitors subfolders, and the old 30-second delay no longer exists.
3. 3 The house rule: every imported task is paused until you resume it.

Step 5 · Review each task

Back in the Task Panel, your imported tasks are waiting - paused (“Task paused on startup.”).

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1. 1 Paused status - the task is imported but not watching anything yet.
2. 2 Double-click a row to open the task's summary for review…
3. 3 …or press the pencil - same thing.

The Task Summary groups every setting into boxes - the same view the wizard shows before creating a task. Walk them top to bottom against what the old task did: name, folders, file recognition (old wildcards like *_test come through as the equivalent regex .+_test), naming, destination.

Example task 1 after import

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1. 1 The destination was re-matched by name - here the old task's press and track were found on the account (BB - 9000 / Coated).
2. 2 Press Edit to walk the whole task through the prefilled wizard - or click any single box to quick-edit just that page.

Example task 2 after import

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1. 1 The network share came through - it uses the credentials you entered in Step 3.

If the report flagged a task's destination (“not found”), this is where you fix it: click the Destination box - it opens in quick-edit - and pick the right device, track or project. Save, and the task is complete.

Step 6 · Resume your tasks

Reviewed? Then let them run.

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1. 1 Press play on a task - it starts watching its folder immediately, and Files Sent starts counting like for any other CC Sync task.

From here on they're ordinary CC Sync tasks - pause, edit or delete them from the row, and see the uploaded data in the CC Dashboard.

What carries over (and what doesn't)

The quick reference behind the report notes.

Each of these differences shows up as a note in the import report, so nothing changes silently.

Next steps

Your tasks are home. From here:

• Manage them day to day → Managing your tasks in the Quick Start
• See the data they upload → The CC Dashboard
• Something doesn't look right? → Getting help (Run Diagnostics)
• The legacy app's reference page (for machines staying on CC Uploader) → CC Uploader