Move Usage statistics to a new Mac?

[teamess]

Hi, obscure request but I have a new Mac and don't want to lose the statistics data from the old machine!  I need to rebuild the setup from scratch instead of just migrating the old machine across.  Is there any way to transfer across the Alfred statistics data only?

[vitor]

Copying over the ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred/usage.data file should be enough. I haven’t tried it, but deleting it does reset the statistics.

[giovanni]

it'd be great to be able to read/export usage stats!

I would be interested in combining data from older computers to visualize years of usage ... 

[vitor]

2 minutes ago, giovanni said:

it'd be great to be able to read/export usage stats!

 

The file appears to be base64 encoded, so you can read it with: base64 --decode "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/Alfred/usage.data". That doesn’t give you the whole picture and you’d have to decipher what each segment means.

 

4 minutes ago, giovanni said:

to visualize years of usage

 

You’d have to be saving that file regularly. The GUI only shows statistics os the past 28 days so it’s likely that’s what’s stored.

[giovanni]

4 minutes ago, vitor said:

The GUI only shows statistics os the past 28 days so it’s likely that’s what’s stored.

too bad 🙁

[teamess]

23 hours ago, vitor said:

Copying over the ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred/usage.data file should be enough. I haven’t tried it, but deleting it does reset the statistics.

 

I can confirm that vitor is correct - the statistics do move across.  There is no graphic for the last 28 days within the usage tab but the statistics at the top do reflect the use on the old machine.  Thanks Vitor!