Allow preference file location to be specified.

I try to keep all my data on a different drive than my system. I back up the data drive regularly, but the system drive only occasionally.
Lightroom just crashed and tossed my preferences in the irrecoverable bit-bucket while it was at it (or is there a way to recover them?). Unfortunately my backup is old since the location can not be changed and is on the system drive. Thus many of my preferences are gone...
So, this feature request is two-fold:
1. Allow user to specify location, so I could have it with the rest of my data that gets backed up. OR, just keep them with the rest of the settings/presets when "keep presets with catalog" is checked - either one would do.
2. Have Lightroom backup presets and preferences whenever it backs up the catalog. i.e. redefine the "backup catalog" function to be "backup all critical lightroom data".
Thanks,
Rob

Preferences are located
OSX
Username]/Library/Preferences folder
Windows
Users/[Username]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Lightroom/Preferences folder.
Most backup applications default to making a backup of the USER data folders, or you can specify the back up software to do so.
Locating preferences elsewhere would mean it wouldn't be a standard location that any catalog could use and may not be found when installing / re installing LR. Not sure how a crash could actually delete preferences although they could be corrupted during a crash and may need to be re written. Having them in a different location wouldn't prevent that.
Those using multiply catalogs could also end up with multiply preferences back ups, taken a different times and therefore causing some problems when restored, unless you are suggesting indivual catalog specific preferences which would seem to defeat the whole point of having preferences! If I used more than one catalog, each catalog would require separate plug ins, export presets and all the rest...a nightmare.

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