Disappearing preferences in CS2

My preferences keep on disappearing and need to be reset quite often. I'm using CS2 with OSX 10.4.11. I lose things such as preset doc specs, units and ruler preferences, scratch disk preferences, etc.  It gets pretty annoying to redo them every time I restart the computer.

DC,<br /><br />If you have no workspaces in your user profile, the odds are you didn't save any custom ones. It's also possible they got moved to the application workspaces folder where they would be available to everyone. On my machine the path to that folder is C:\Program Files\Adobe\CS2\Adobe InDesign CS2\Presets\InDesign Workspaces, but your path will probably be a little different.<br /><br />In version 4, both of your preference files mentioned in the other thread are in the same location: Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign\Version 4.0. <br /><br />I think copying the old folders into the new location would probably work just fine, but make a backup copy of the new folders first, just in case.<br /><br />Peter

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