Saving user preferences not to loose them if you have to load factory settings

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Hi everyone,
I’m working on a mac. I din’t know if this had been mentioned later in the course, but I think you may find it useful.
Apparently there is no way to export user prefs and load them later, like in Adobe apps. This seems to me quite strange and not helpful at all.

Anyway in a Macintosh sys you can access the prefs file by doing this:
– click and keep clicked the alt key

  • go to top finder menu > go > library (this folder is hidden if you do not click the alt key) > application support > blender > 2.78 > config > and here you find the file “userpref.blend”

You may want to backup this file to have it for later, if and when you have to revert back to factory settings.

Hope this will help you. (Sorry I don’t know what to do in the Windows or Linux sys).

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For windows it’s pretty much the same, just a different location.

On my Windows 7 laptop, it can be located as follows: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\config\userpref.blend.

That said, I don’t know whether that preference file gets overwritten when updating Blender with a new version, or if you need to reset it back to Factory Settings, but yes, backing up that whole config folder can’t hurt, as it also includes your preferred startup.blend, as well as bookmarks and recent-files lists in .txt format.

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