In the recent changes to preferences, "Save Settings to Disk" was removed from the Admin Settings. That feature allowed users to export a serialized collect.settings file that could be pushed to multiple devices.

For most people, QR code configuration will now be more convenient but some people may still prefer to use configuration files. In addition #1099 is adding the ability to load json preference files which will be easier to generate and verify than the serialized files.

Since we haven't discussed removing the serialized file creation with the broader community, I think we should bring that back. In addition, we could also add the ability to generate a json file.