Migrating website data when switching from app store version of Integrity Plus / Pro to web download version

There are reasons why you might want to start using the web download version of Integrity Plus or Integrity Pro after buying the App Store version.

(We're happy to provide a key, with evidence of the App Store purchase as long as it's for the same user).

The App Store version is necessarily 'sandboxed', a security measure imposed by Apple for apps sold on their Store. However, this kills certain features, such as the ability to crawl a site stored as local files. So the web download version remains un-sandboxed (it pre-dates sandboxing).

The sandboxed and un-sandboxed apps store their data in different places. When switching from the web download version to the app store version, the migration is taken care of by the system (this is the way Apple want you to go and so they make this easy. Invisible in fact).

The app doesn't (yet) detect and automatically handle the reverse situation. But it's possible to do this manually.

Option 1. Integrity Plus / Pro have the option to export / import your websites. 

This requires you to export while you have the app store version installed, and import after you've replaced it with the web download version.

Option 2. Use these Terminal commands. 

They check for and remove any preference file which will be present if you've already run the web download version. Then copy the data from the sandbox 'container' to the location used by the web download version.

(This first set of instructions is for Integrity Plus. For Integrity Pro, scroll down)

First make sure Integrity Plus isn't running.

Then enter this into Terminal:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.peacockmedia.Integrity-plus.plist

(if it says there's no file there, don't worry.) Then this:

cp ~/Library/Containers/com.peacockmedia.integrityPlus/Data/Library/Preferences/com.peacockmedia.integrityPlus.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.peacockmedia.Integrity-plus.plist

Important: now log out of the system and log back in. The system does some wicked things with caching these files. It's sometimes possible to make our change 'stick' using another Terminal command, but I've not found that as reliable for these purposes as logging out / in.

Now start the web download Integrity Plus and see whether your data appears.

Here are the corresponding instructions for Integrity Pro

Make sure Integrity Pro isn't running

First enter into Terminal:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.peacockmedia.Integrity-pro.plist

(if it says there's no file there, don't worry.) Then this:

cp ~/Library/Containers/com.peacockmedia.Integrity-pro/Data/Library/Preferences/com.peacockmedia.Integrity-pro.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.peacockmedia.Integrity-pro.plist

Important: log out of the system and back in.