Hey Powdered,
I may not be completely tracking on your problem here, and not certain if your running on PC or Mac, or what ver you are driving (maybe add this to your signature)...............but the attached folder .GIF shows where your keyboard prefs and such are located. I had to
copy and paste these from the AC 8.1 folder into the 8.2 folder to get mine back.
Check the file sizes in both folders and see if they match. If not give the copy+paste a try. In the future, if your preferences are heavily modified like mine are I actually save a copy to disc somewhere to make sure I won't loose them permanently. The voice of experience............
jeff white
w3d design
AC 23 Solo US / current build & library
Windoze 10 Pro 64
HP ZBook 17 G4
Intel Zeon 3.0
Twin 2GB SSD
32 GB memory
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