Saving and Restoring Purchases

There is currently no good graphical way to save and restore AppCenter purchase history, but this can be done using the Terminal.

Saving Purchase History

To save your AppCenter purchases to a file, you can run the following command:

gsettings get io.elementary.appcenter.settings paid-apps > ~/appcenter.backup

This command will create a file "appcenter.backup" in your Home folder. You can save this backup file to another computer, cloud storage provider, or other external storage to keep it safe.

Restoring Purchase History

If you've previously saved a backup file, place this file in your home folder and then run the following command:

gsettings set io.elementary.appcenter.settings paid-apps "$(< ~/appcenter.backup)"

Once the command is completed, you can remove the "appcenter.backup" file.