Migrating Settings...

[rgarand]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[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.

[Anonymous]

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 .

[Anonymous]

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??

[rgarand]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[rgarand]

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.

[Ben Odonnell]

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

[__archiben]

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