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This is NOT a question about the address book feature of Remote Utilities. That is covered in many places.

This IS a question about the <optAddressBook> element of the config_4.xml file.

This element contains the "list of address books" which are loaded when Viewer starts.

Would you be willing to share the format of this data?

The file is XML.

The <optAddressBook> appears to be base64. Decoding that produces a binary format that I can't identify.

For context, I swap in and out address books all the time. All my address books have just 1 host in them. Because there is no grouping of 2 or 3 that I need all the time. I am always mixing and matching. And if I have more than 1 host in an address book, I wind up running out of my paid slots (20) too soon.

But I have a use for "groups of address books". For certain situations I am much more likely to use certain hosts than others. But in both situations host lists vary considerably.

I will be experimenting with saving and restoring the config_4.xml file but I thought that modifying the optAddressBook directly might be easier (once I know the format)

One thing I missed before I posted the above and until now, is that in the address book manager you can have CHECKED and UNchecked address books. In my testing seems like you can have hundreds of UNchecked address books, as long as the CHECKED address books amount to less than or equal to your number of remote hosts/controlled devices allowed in your license.

That helps.