Preference File Location

Now that I have spent much time getting my preferences customized, I would like to back them up to another location in case I have to reload. Where are these files located?

Typically, C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop (your version).

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Adobe Acrobat 9 Updater Preference File Location

What is the default Adobe Acrobat 9 Updater Preference File Location setting when you click on Help > Check for Updates?

Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\<current user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Updater6\
Windows Vista
\\Users\<current user>[AppData]\Local\Adobe\Updater6\
Windows 7
C:\Users\<current user>[AppData]\Local\Adobe\Updater6\
Mac
"/Users/<current user>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Updater6/"
AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat

Lightroom 2.6 preference file location on Windows 7

I have just installed windows 7 on my laptop and want to copy my preference file from my desktop Vista machine over so I have the same setup. I located the preference file in vista under users/myname/appdata/roaming/adobe/lightroom as per the post on this. However in my windows 7 installation I just have a user "computer admin" and if i click on that I don't see any AppData folder. Suggestions gratefulyl received.
mike

The correct location is:
\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Preferences
Make sure you turn on show all files as mentioned above:
From explorer:
ALT > Tools > Folder Options > View
CHECK > show hidden files and folders

Hey Forum Moderator ... what happened to the link to Preference file location??

There used to be link to a document describing the location of the Preferences files for various different versions of LR and various different operating systems.
That link used to be right here on the main page of the Lightroom Forum, but it's gone now.
Can we have it back?

You mean the Overview page http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom?view=overview
I visit that page maybe once a month to remind myself where not to go for fear of getting lost.

Indesign CS6 preference file location

I am having trouble finding the InDesign CS6 preference file on my Mac. I don't have a library folder under my username but there is one for guest and macadmin. Is it hidden? How do I view this folder?
Macintosh: Hard Drive/Users/<USER>/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/<Version #>/<Language>/

Thank you. I was able to delete the file however it has not fixed my issues with indesign.
I can open InDesign on the guest account and everything loads fine. If I try to open it on my account I get the error "cannot open resource file" and my full preferences aren't loading. I am trying to get to InDesign>Preferences>Type and my full preferences are showing.

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.

Dreamweaver CS3 preference file location

Dreamweaver CS3 was not able to be shut down on a Macintosh,
and the computer was powered down.
Now Dreamweaver does not have any of the site information in
Manage Sites (the window is blank).
There is a Time Machine backup (OS 10.5) we can restore, but
where is the Manage Sites preference info stored? Or it could be
the info in the Files palette we need to restore, I'm not sure
(it's someone else's computer, who had about 15 sites configured
through Dreamweaver).

/HardDrive/Users/username/Library/Application
Support/Adobe/Common/9/Sites/Site Prefs
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

How to delete the Preferences file in mavericks

I have seen advice to delete my preferences to fix some "wonky" behavior (radial filter doesn't show outlines when applying it) by LR 5.5. I have Mavericks on my Mac, and can't find out where to do this. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Preferences file location:
Preference and other file locations in Lightroom 5
Once you find the file, it can be deleted like any other file, but consider renaming it instead, so in case it doesn't help, you can rename it back..
Quit Lightroom first!

Illustrator Settings, Preferences, Assets - Locations

Hi all,
I am trying to find as much detail as possible on the location of all Illustrator settings, preferences and application assets in Illustrator CC. There is some information in Adobe's online documentation, but it is incomplete, as far as I can tell:
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/preference-file-location-illustrator.html
It's late, so it's possible i'm just missing it...
For Mac OS, I think I've got it on lock.
Application Data (Global, all users, application-based):
Mac HD > Applications > Adobe Illustrator CC > Presets > en_US
Library - Application Support (User-based):
Mac HD > Users > ~Username > Library > Application Support > Adobe > Adobe Illustrator 17 > en_US
Library - Preferences (User-based):
Mac HD > Users > ~Username > Library > Preferences > Adobe Illustrator 17 Settings > en_US
For Windows, it seems a bit more nebulous... I've found a few, but I'm not sure I've found them all, and it's unclear. I'm checkin on a Windows 7 box, and here's what I've found so far:
Program Files (Global, all users, program-based):
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC (64 Bit)\Presets
(?) Application Data 1 (User-based):
C:\Users\~Username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator\17.0.0
(?) Application Data 2 (User-based):
C:\Users\~Username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 17 Settings\en_US\x64
From what I can tell, the first "user-baed" directory in the 17.0.0 folder, is just an xml-based preferences resource. But I don't know if that file, along with the other user-based directory comprises a 'complete' analog to the two directories in Mac OS.
Are there more? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Note: My work here is based on the English (US/Universal) install.

I am familiar with the locations of all of the files for Mac OS and am hvaing no problems with that.
The two Windows directories I listed seem to be allowing me to make changes and import settings from another build properly:
Application Data 1 (User-based):
C:\Users\~Username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator\17.0.0
Application Data 2 (User-based):
C:\Users\~Username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 17 Settings\en_US\x64
I was able to move some files in place there and get the application to respond as needed.
Also, on a related note, when I did similar things in Windows as I did in Mac, it failed in similar ways. Moving workspace data into the application on either OS seems to break the interface completely.

Location of Preferences files

I've installed using Encore 2.0 onto a machine running XP Pro. The machine is networked in a large commercial environment. Currently Encore is writing its Preferences Files into a directory under my username which is causing me a big problem because the files exceed my allowable profile space. In other Adobe products (Premiere, Photoshop Bridge) I can change the location of these files by editing the preferences. But there seems to be no way of doing this in Encore.
Any help greatly appreciated
regards
Steve

Seems strange that the preferences files are tipping you over the edge here. They're not that big.
Is it possible you are referring to the Media Cache files instead?
These can get big - rapidly.
The way to save space here would be to clean up the media cache files (or if absolutely certain they are no longer needed delete them altogether).
This can be done from one of the preferences screens:
Go to Edit/Preferences, and look for the Audio/Video Out preference page
(Why there, don't ask!) and you will see an option to clean the database or delete it.
The Media Cache database keeps track of assets you have imported into projects, for example if Premiere creates a conformed audio file & you import that file into Encore, Encore will use the file from Premiere Pro instead of creating a new conformed file. BUT - if it is a new import, then Encore will conform the file & the database will point to that instead. The database simply tells Encore where to find the files. With a lot of projects being done, this can build up fast.
Try cleaning the database - all unreferenced files (Or at least, the
i references
to the unreferenced files will then be deleted

After deleting FF preference file, Footers are now located higher on all printed pages, causing some one-page emails to extend to a second page.

I upgraded my Mac OS to 10.6.8 to see if that would solve some of my FF hanging issues. It did not. So I decided to try deleting the preferences file as suggested in the Troubleshooting section to see if that would help. Unfortunately after deleting the prefs.js file per the instructions, on all my printed pages the Footers are now located significantly higher on the page than they used to be. They are located about 3/4" up from the bottom of the page, whereas before they were always located about 1/4" up from the bottom of the page. (Thankfully, the headers are in the same spot as before, 1/4" down from the top of the page.)
I don't understand how this happened to the footer placement in deleting the preferences. The placement/location of the headers and footers is not something that the user can adjust in FF Preferences or in the Printing window as a preference. Only the content of the headers and footers can be modified in the Printing window.
I am stumped as to how this occurred. Is there a way to restore the footer placement back closer to the bottom of the page? The higher location of the footer is causing many of my lengthier one-page emails to have to extend onto a second page which is a waste of paper and file space.

Try resetting the Page Margins to what you were using before deleting the prefs file.

Itunes seems to be unable to locate original file to play songs. Songs are in the itunes media file and playable direct from file. Preferences/advance file location is correct. Some files are playing and others aren't with no obvious pattern.

Itunes is unable to locate original file when attempting to play music. Songs are in the itunes media file and playable direct from there. Preferences/Advanced file location pointer is correct. Some songs play but most don't. I did move files around a bit in an attempt to share music with another account on same computor, however this did not work so have returned file to original location. Please help, I am way outside my feild in this one. Ta.

I have solved the problem. i think when I moved the media file back out of public to my account, I put it back into the wrong place and ended up with a media file inside a media file, inside another media file!! So I moved it again and fixed!! Now I just need to work out why i can't share with another account user of same computor.

Running out of space on my C: partition. Need to move CC suite of apps to D: partition. tried to do this in install/file location preferences but it didn't make a difference.

Running out of space on my C: partition. Need to move CC suite of apps to D: partition. tried to do this in install/file location preferences but it didn't make a difference.

*unselected "Sync music" from the appropriate tab. And iTunes warned: if you do this, we will delete every playlist and song on your iPod*
To change to manually managing an iPod you don't "unselect" sync music, you "select" manually manage songs and videos. If you want to delete songs from iTunes and keep them on the iPod you need to change the update option of your iPod by checking the box beside "manually manage songs and videos" in the Summary tab and clicking Apply. Your iPod will not sync with iTunes in this mode so it can have different content, you can get details here:
Managing content manually on iPod
iPod 101: Fill 'er Up
One major word of caution. If you delete songs or videos from your computer and have no back up other than the iPod you will risk losing them permanently if your iPod fails or you find you have to restore it to solve a problem. You should consider investing in an additional internal or external hard drive to store/back up your music. Alternatively at the very least back up anything you can't replace such as iTunes downloads to CD or DVD: How to back up your media in iTunes
Something else to be aware of when using an iPod in manual mode is that the "Do Not Disconnect" message will remain on the display until you physically eject the device. In that case use Safely Remove Hardware icon in the Windows system tray on your desktop or check this link: Safely Disconnect IPod
I don't have any TV shows so I can't speak from experience here but looking at the TV tab it appears you can only sync shows, there's no manually manage option. Syncing would require that you keep the shows on your computer otherwise they would be removed from the iPod the next time you syncronised with iTunes.

Preference and spelling files location

I want to be able to transfer my spelling word additions and autocorrect changes from one computer to another.
Where are the files that hold this information?
Thank you.
Scott

The custom dictionary is stored as:
<startupVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Spelling:en
The auto-correction array is stored in the applications preferences files.
Copying these files from a machine to an other one is not a good idea becaus they store informations dedicated to the hosting machine.
a simple seach with the complex keyword "autocorrect" would have give you this fresh link:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1975883&tstart=0
where I responded five hours ago
Re: Help Transferring Autocorrect File
Posted: 14 avr. 2009 17:29 in response to: David J. Peterson
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Look at:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8210190
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File location and name

If I use iPhoto to import files from my camera where are the files actually stored and how do I change the actual file name? I have figured out how to change the picture title but it does not change the file name.
If I use iPhoto to import pictures from the hard drive do they get copied to the iPhoto file location or just linked? When I moved to the mac I created a folder named "old laptop stuff" and moved everything to that folder. I am now trying to organize all of this stuff on the mac. Can I delete the picture files from the old laptop stuff folder after using iphoto to import and organize them?

Hi Dispatcher,
Where are the files stored? Take a look at the screenshot.
iPhoto 6 Library folder in the Finder
As you can see the structure is now related to rolls. Rolls are created for each folder you import and each import session from a camera.
It is very easy to change the names of film rolls within iPhoto to make them easier to find images within. Open the info panel in iPhoto by clicking on the "i" icon. Once it is opened, click on the roll title in the viewing window.
Click on the word "title" in the info pane and type in your new title. I like to use a date and text format such as 12/25/05 Christmas at Mom's, 1/05/06 my birthday, etc. Once the roll names are changed within iPhoto, they are also changed within the Finder, making it easy to locate an image.
When importing from a camera, make sure you name the roll with a date and text before the import.
You can add titles in iPhoto, but as you found out only iPhoto sees these new titles. To do what you want you have to name the photos before importing into iPhoto. Either download to the computer with your camera software or use Image Capture (found in your Applications folder) to download the photos.
Launch Image Capture (keep the little window open that says no camera is connected or IC will quit if you close the window)
Go to Image Captures preferences and choose what you want to happen when a camera is connected.
Next time a camera is connected, if you chose Image Capture to open, then IC will open and download the photos.
Rename your photos then import them into the library
You can choose to do it either way when you first use iPhoto (this is new in version 6)
If you choose to copy into the library when importing, then the photos are copied into the library (iPhoto Library folder in the Finder)
After you have imported all those folders of images, you can then delete the folder.

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