This new auth system will make me sell my printers

Bambu Lab X1 Series General discussions
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For those not running in LAN mode but want to I have the following steps that may assist.
Since I’ve had the printer I’ve not been able to switch from cloud to LAN.
I initially wanted this for security and OctoEverywhere which reportedly runs better configured as such.

However, any attempt to switch to LAN only mode would have the printer no longer connectible from the Bambu Studio (BS).
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You can see it knows the printer is there in LAN but refuses to connect
This BS issue seemed to be a bug or dark pattern but I continued to use it in cloud mainly for the Handy app.
However, this change in direction forced me to make the time to look into it and resolved it easily enough.

No amount of attempting to add the printer in LAN, cloud, PIN or access code would work.
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Windows method:

  1. Close all BS processes

  2. Go to %appdata% in Windows Explorer

  3. Rename the BambuStudio folder to anything i.e. BambuStudio_Backup

  4. Open BS and it will run through the startup like it’s a new app setup, it is.

  5. Add the printer/s with bind with access code (printer needs to be in LAN mode)

  6. Close BS and in BambuStudio_Backup\user\ you’ll find a folder with an odd name, just numbers, this is your cloud profile.

  7. In that folder copy the 3 folders, these contain any custom filaments you’ve made. Paste them into the new BambuStudio\user\default (default is no cloud account)

  8. Open BS and all your filaments are restored, you’ll need to set dark mode or any preferences you had. There is a config file that contains these settings but when compared there was a number of cloud values and it’s not worth removing them for what is a fast preferences reset.

  9. You should now have a fully working LAN printer

Unsure the cause, but likely a bug they’ll have no interest in fixing if they want to strongly encourage cloud mode.

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