topic Migrating Settings... in Project data & BIM

Migrating Settings...

rgarand — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:50:52 GMT

Hello all,

Is there a quick, easy way to migrate the settings from say...8.0 to 8.1?
A file to carry over, or anything.

I did some searching on the list and did not come up with anything that was relavant to this issue...but then I may not have been searching with the correct criteria.

TIA

help with shortcut keys

Anonymous — Sun, 16 May 2004 07:00:07 GMT

well,... i go to a lot of trouble customizing my shortcut keys unfortunatly, lately i keep installing all kinds of demos and deinstaling them and my sistem needs to be reinstalled pretty quick. no pbm ... until i start reconfiguring my preferences in my programs. as i use archicad very much,i nned the shortcuts but it's kinda tough redefining keyboard shortcuts... whole lotta' them
i'm sure a similar question arose s'mwhere in the forum but i can't find it ... and i think .. it didn't receave a answer. at least at the time i saw it
i hope i'm not too bothersome asking it again ... 10x a lot

i'm using Archicad 8.1 on XP

Re: Migrating Settings...

ci-JoshOs — Sun, 16 May 2004 22:16:17 GMT

there is a file that will carry over your keyboard shortcuts and stuff like that.
It is called 'ArchiCAD (version number) lasting.prf' and can be found at:

(root drive):\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Graphisoft\(Archicad version)\

just copy that file across to the folder for the version that you want to migrate your settings to(assuming you have it installed), and thats it.

Re: help with shortcut keys

Anonymous — Mon, 17 May 2004 09:16:24 GMT

nobody knows... hugh??? could it be a wish ... to be able to save shortcuts to a external file? with a posibility to load them back in ???
i feel silly with no reply at all .

Re: help with shortcut keys

Anonymous — Mon, 17 May 2004 09:25:51 GMT

i found my answer : in a topic close to mine . here it is in this topic too
quote="henrypootel"]there is a file that will carry over your keyboard shortcuts and stuff like that.
It is called 'ArchiCAD (version number) lasting.prf' and can be found at:

(root drive):\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Graphisoft\(Archicad version)\

just copy that file across to the folder for the version that you want to migrate your settings to(assuming you have it installed), and thats it.

P.S. is my english so bad??

Re: Migrating Settings...

rgarand — Mon, 17 May 2004 11:31:09 GMT

henrypootel,
Thanks for the info! We have macs in our office to...would you happen to know where the file is on the mac?

Re: Migrating Settings...

Anonymous — Mon, 17 May 2004 11:38:12 GMT

On the Mac:

Users > (user name) > Library > Preferences > Graphisoft

If you have more than one user set up on the machine there will be separate preferences for each one which has run ArchiCAD.

Re: help with shortcut keys

rgarand — Mon, 17 May 2004 12:13:08 GMT

Your english is not so bad. I just don't know that you formed your post into a question. I hope you found what you were looking for in the other post.

Re: Migrating Settings...

Ben Odonnell — Mon, 17 May 2004 12:45:57 GMT

Can you really take 8.0 prefs and use them in 8.1? I didn't think that it was possible.

Re: Migrating Settings...

__archiben — Mon, 17 May 2004 13:12:48 GMT

Ben wrote:
Can you really take 8.0 prefs and use them in 8.1? I didn't think that it was possible.

regardless of whether you can or not, i simply wouldn't take anything from archiCAD 8 to use in 8.1!

start from scratch!

~/archiben

Re: Migrating Settings...

Anonymous — Mon, 17 May 2004 14:03:04 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
Ben wrote:
Can you really take 8.0 prefs and use them in 8.1? I didn't think that it was possible.
regardless of whether you can or not, i simply wouldn't take anything from archiCAD 8 to use in 8.1!

start from scratch!

~/archiben

AGREED!

Re: Migrating Settings...

rgarand — Mon, 17 May 2004 14:23:24 GMT

So am I to understand that coping the suggested file from one version to another is not always the best way? I hope this is fixed soon...I would hate to spend about 1 hour per machine everytime we upgrade...which seems to be quite often lately. I know that it doesn't seem like much time...but it adds up over the course of a year.

Re: Migrating Settings...

__archiben — Mon, 17 May 2004 14:49:27 GMT

rgarand wrote:
So am I to understand that coping the suggested file from one version to another is not always the best way? I hope this is fixed soon...I would hate to spend about 1 hour per machine everytime we upgrade...which seems to be quite often lately. I know that it doesn't seem like much time...but it adds up over the course of a year.

the issue, as far as i'm concerned, is more to do with the 8.0 release rather than an ongoing trend in archiCAD file formats. sure, there will always be a few quirks when major new features are introduced because the file format has to change in order to accommodate them, but archiCAD 8.0 was an exception!

there seemed to be far too many flaws in the program when it was released (i don't think there will be too many people arguing with that!), and as such it was also writing a lot of bad stuff into its files, prefs, whatever that carried over to later version file formats, corrupting them as a result.

my recommendation was that you should begin a-fresh with 8.1 purely for this technical reason. opening older (pre 8.0) files in archiCAD 8.1 is not too much of a problem as long as you save as an archive in the earlier version. there has also been no problem migrating from one to another of any of the 8.1 patch releases . . . but i still tend to start over having had my fingers burned with 8.0.

~/archiben

Re: Migrating Settings...

Djordje — Tue, 18 May 2004 05:26:20 GMT

As you might have noticed, I merged the topics dealing with the same issues - that is, transferring settings in general - into this one.

Enjoy