How to force QtCreator to load a pro.user file?

Question

I have set up extensive build (10+) configurations (per my project's requirements) as well as deployment and "run" configurations for my project. This project is based on an external harddrive that is moved between two machines. The problem is that every time I move the hdd, QtC wants to erase all my settings and start over from scratch.

How do I force QtC to load my project settings? Right now I have had to start over because, without me having to click "save" anywhere, QtC overwrote all of my settings the moment I opened my project with no warning.

I suppose I don't even have to force it to load the file. I would be fine if I just knew what it was in the *.pro.user file that tips QtC off that it should ignore me (and common sense) and nuke my work for no reason. If I knew that, I could manually cut and paste over my settings from .user file to .user file. I have already tried manually updating two fields int he *.user file called "EnvironmentId" & "FileVersion", but QtC somehow still magically knows I want it to trash my project.

Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Well, actually Qt Creator does support shared .pro files.
This link: http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-sharing-project-settings.html shows how to do it.
So, no reason to switch to shell scripts :-)

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