Moving CS3 keyboard shortcuts to CS4

Greetings,
Is there a way to move my ID CS3 shortcuts to ID CS4? Just moving the file doesn't seem to work. IDCS4 doesn't recognize the file is there.
Thanks,
Adrian.

I did but the name still didn't appear. It was only after I moved the file, closed and opened ID and typed in the name that it finally appeared in the list.
Adrian.

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In the last month I have lost all of my keyboard shortcuts in my CS4 program. I was using Windows Vista Professional - and installed CS4 in August. Everything was working great. Then last month, all of the shortcuts disappeared. I uninstalled/then reinstalled CS4 - still nothing. Have done that several times, and looked on the forums for similar issues, in the Technotes - nothing. Yesterday my office upgraded my system to Windows 7. I am on a new HP Elitebook - also purchased in August, so my system can handle the program with ease.
Anyway, I had the IT guy do a 'clean install' per most of the chatter online, so i went to install the program and the install came up with 'errors' first was that Adobe 9 was not installed, nor was Photoshop. When i opened up illustrator - poof - no keyboard shortcuts again. Please if anyone knows of something that I could try, I would really appreciate it. This is seriously making me behind in projects and am ready to throw my new computer out the gigantic window that is in front of my desk.
Oh, since this - I updated my graphics driver (per suggestion for Photoshop), unistalled CS4 - AGAIN - and am in the process of reinstalling. But I am pretty sure that the shortcuts will be missing.
Help!!

These are the errors that I keep getting from the 'Get More Information' link after install.
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I've discovered that you can open your custom keyboard shortcuts xml file in a text editor, and copy/paste shortcuts into your CS5 keyboard shortcuts file. Anyone else tried this? Is there an easier way to import all of your keyboard shortcuts from CS4 to CS5?

I did some experimentation, and I stand corrected! Apparently my memory was dodgy. In particular:
My experience is that it basically works fine, though it's been a while.
I thought we had tested this from CS3 to CS5, but it looks like maybe we only did it from CS5 to CS5.5. Which are a lot more similar.
(And yes, I did recall people having complaints about it, but my experience disagreed...)
Indeed, you have some problems with CS4 to CS5, but they are not subtle. At least, initially, I was getting a dialog box informing me that there were defined shortcuts in the shortcut set that were invalid (Somewhere along the way that stopped happening, which is Interesting, but probably not relevant).
Anyhow, I certainly don't disagree that pasting the XML differences is the better way to go -- I said as much in post #13.
But by way of recompense, here are a pair of scripts to make it easier.
Both require you to create a special shortcut set called "defaults" (i.e. defaults.indk) that they use as a baseline for differences. For a variety of reasons, it is insufficient for the script to use the Default.indk file in the application directory. Both scripts pop up an error if you have not done this, and tell you how to do it.
The first one, extractShortcuts.jsx, prompts you to select a shortcut file to extract from, compares it against the default shortcut set, and outputs and differences to a file on the Desktop, extracted.xml. Run this in CS4.
The second one, importShortcuts.jsx, prompts you to select the extracted.xml file from previous, asks you for the name of the new shortcut set, and then merges the two. It merges them in a fairly stupid way (just plain appending just before the end), but it's probably sufficient.
So here we go, exportShortcuts.jsx:
#target InDesign
(function() {
     var appdir = app.filePath,
          prefs, shortcuts,
          i, s,
          defaults, readcuts,
          defxml, readxml,
          e, ea, action, context, string,
          defaultsByAction, d;
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               break;
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          alert("Could not find User Preferences directory");
          exit(1);
     // $.writeln(prefs.fsName);
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     defaults = shortcuts.getFiles("defaults.indk")[0];
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          alert(
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     ' modify it in a trivial way (for instance, assign F1 to About InDesign),'+
     ' name the new set "defaults", remove the modification, and save the set.'+
     ' Then re-run this script.');
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     defxml = new XML(defaults.read());
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     readcuts.open("r");
     readxml = new XML(readcuts.read());
     readcuts.close();
     writecuts.open("w");
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          ea = e.elements()[0];
          if (ea.name() != "action-id") {
               alert("Parse failure on element "+ea);
               exit(1);
          action = ea.attributes();
          context = e.context[0];
          string = e.string[0];
          defaultsByAction[action] = { context: context, string: string };
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          e = readxml.shortcut[i];
          ea = e.elements()[0];
          if (ea.name() != "action-id") {
               alert("Parse failure on element "+ea);
               exit(1);
          action = ea.attributes();
          context = e.context[0];
          string = e.string[0];
          d = defaultsByAction[action];
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               d.context != context ||
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And its mating half, importShortcuts.jsx:
#target InDesign
(function() {
    var appdir = app.filePath,
        prefs, shortcuts,
        i, s,
        defaults, readcuts,
        writename, writecuts,
        defxml, readxml,
        e, ea, action, context, string,
        defaultsByAction, d;
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        s = includes[i];
        if (s.match("Preferences") && s.match(/Scripts$/)) {
            prefs = new File(s).parent;
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        alert("Could not find User Preferences directory");
        exit(1);
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    shortcuts = prefs.getFiles("InDesign Shortcut Sets")[0];
    defaults = shortcuts.getFiles("defaults.indk")[0];
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        alert(
    'The script requires a special shortcut set called "defaults" to exist.\n'+
    'The app-folder Defaults.indk is NOT sufficient. Please go to '+
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    ' modify it in a trivial way (for instance, assign F1 to About InDesign),'+
    ' name the new set "defaults", remove the modification, and save the set.'+
    ' Then re-run this script.');
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    writecuts = new File(shortcuts+"/"+writename+".indk");
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    readxml = new XML(readcuts.read());
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As always, install scripts by saving each script as a plain text file (in TextEdit or Notepad) and following directions at, e.g., How to Install InDesign Scripts.
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m

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