Motion 4 is sluggish. No preferences to trash

Hello,
Probably somewhat of a beginner's question here but I need a little guidance. Motion's been very sluggish of late. Even straightforward operations with a few layers and no serious animation move along at a snail's pace, significantly slower than what I'm used to. I've never trashed the preferences so I thought it might be worth a try. But there was no com.apple.motionapp.plist file to be found. Is that unusual? Could it hiding out somewhere?
Jagr

I don't have that file only motionapp.plist and motionapp.LSSharedFileList.plist. There should be no problem deleting it also, but I would not empty the trash until you confirm Motion rebuilds it after relaunch. You can download preference manager from Digital Rebellion, it's free, and use it to delete your motion prefs.

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