# Restore from Laptop to Desktop in 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Local Add-ons\ **Tags:** cloud-backups\ **Created:** [September 4, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/restore-from-laptop-to-desktop-in-2025/51316 "2025-09-04T04:46:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Nick-B](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/nick-b/32/16140_2.png) [@Nick-B](https://community.localwp.com/u/Nick-B)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/restore-from-laptop-to-desktop-in-2025/51316/2 "2025-09-04T13:16:57Z")
Hey @cernikvladi! > So working fluently on 2 or more machines is till not available in 2025? The short answer is no, we don’t have a smoother workaround to offer for this. You’re correct in that working from two or more machines is more of a manual process. You essentially have to back up and reimport each time you do work from each device. We’ve had a couple of feature requests pop up for some more functionality in this regard: > [@Improve Backup plugin and Local to seamlessly sync up and down projects](https://community.localwp.com/t/improve-backup-plugin-and-local-to-seamlessly-sync-up-and-down-projects/40814): > > As discussed [here](https://community.localwp.com/t/cloud-backup-add-on-how-to-effectively-sync-a-site-between-computers/40805), the Backup plugin and Local currently only do a lacklustre job if you intend to effectively work on one site on two or more different computers, [as the website advertises](https://localwp.com/cloud-backups/). State of things: Currently, the Backup add-on lets you back up your site on one machine, then you have to create a new site from the backup on your second machine, which doesn’t integrate with the backup branch of machine A, but creates a new stream for machine B. Same if you switch back to machine A, as ba… > [@Synchronize Local between computers?](https://community.localwp.com/t/synchronize-local-between-computers/41406): > > Hi, I’m wondering if this issue has been figured out. I have seen one or two topics about it but they are from 2021 at the latest. Is there an easy way to have Local websites synchronized on two different computers, if the files/folder are stored in an iCloud folder on my iMac for example? Should I be able to open it and keep editing it on my laptop as well? Virginie --- _[View the full topic](https://community.localwp.com/t/restore-from-laptop-to-desktop-in-2025/51316)._