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Importing PuTTY sessions

PuTTY keeps its saved sessions in the Windows registry, one key per session, under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions. A conversion script ships with SmartCom Revisited that reads them and writes an import file.

Converting

  1. Run the conversion script from the SmartCom Revisited install directory.
  2. It reads your saved sessions and writes a single import file.
  3. In the app, import that file. Sessions arrive as connections, in a folder.

What comes across, and what does not

  • Comes across: session name, host, port, protocol, username, serial port and line settings, and the terminal basics.
  • Does not: saved passwords — PuTTY does not store them, and neither would we. Private keys stay where they are; point the connection at the same .ppk or convert it to OpenSSH format.

If you keep sessions somewhere else

If you use the portable PuTTY that keeps sessions in a file rather than the registry, or you have exported a .reg from another machine, point the script at that file instead of reading the live registry.

Afterwards

Sort the imported connections into folders, then attach a button set. The exchange has sets for the usual platforms — read the script, download, import.