Migrating from Brave to IPFS Desktop

The Brave browser has removed support for running an IPFS node, which shipped in its v1.69.153 stable release on Aug 22nd, after the Brave team could not find mutually agreeable terms to keep the integration sustainable. The guide explains how to move Brave's IPFS repository to IPFS Desktop, which runs Kubo on the computer, by moving the brave_ipfs directory to ~/.ipfs and confirming that .ipfs/config contains the Brave node's PeerID. It notes that this keeps data, pins, IPNS keys and the PeerID unchanged, and that users may need to raise the cache limit from 1GB to at least 100GB and update the RPC and gateway ports in IPFS Companion from 5001 and 8080 to 45001 and 48080.