PDF Optimizer Settings

Hi Group!
Hope some one can help!
I received a file from one of our printers with customized settings to the PDF Optimizer window under the Advanced menu in Acrobat 8 for Mac.
I don't know where, for the life of me, to put this file so that when I open a PDF in Acrobat and select Advanced/PDF Optimizer this file with all of it's customized settings appears in the Settings list so that all I have to do is choose it.
I tried asking the person who created this file, but he was just recently laid off.
Thanks in advance!

You folks are confusing PDF presets/settings files with what Marc is asking about.
Read his description again: He's talking about the settings you set WITHIN THE PDF OPTIMIZER DIALOG. You have the option to save settings (e.g., creating Acrobat 4 compatibility) when optimizing files. It just doesn't tell you where the settings file gets saved.
It depends on which version of Acrobat. For Acrobat 8, it's in this path on the Mac:
Users/[yourname]/Library/Acrobat User Data/8.0/PDF Optimizer. Files saved in this location DO have the ".optimize" extension.
But it's moved with Acrobat 9 Pro:
Users/[yourname]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/9.0 or 9.0_x86/PDF Optimizer.
9.0 is if you have a PPC Mac, 9.0_x86 is if you have an Intel Mac.

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