I want my AC7.0 Toolbar (and other personal settings) in 8.1

[Anonymous]

I want my AC7.0 Toolbar (and other personal settings) in 8.1; is this possible?

[Jefferson]

Hey Vincent,

Try this previously discussed topic
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=2856

You will still have to recreate your preferances for 8.1, but only once! [save a copy of them somewhere just in case]

Also if it's the rotate/mirror/drag a copy of you're looking for go to
options>preferences>miscellaneous and select "show element copy transformations in contextual menu" and you'll be working like you used to. Don't quite understand why the powers that be let that one go.........

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot for this quick reply Jefferson!

I believe your advise is working within the 8-cycle;
When I want to take my prefs with me from 8.1 R1 and install not an update but the full new version of 8.1 R2 I can just copy the old prefs in the new folder; works fine.

When I de-install AC7 I find the prefs in the root of the ArchiCAD folder, with 7.0 in the name instead of 8.1.
When I rename them to 8.1 and put them into the prefs-location you mentioned and overwrite them nothing happens.

New question that came up:
I believe the personal shaped Tool Bar isn't saved in the prf's but somewhere else...

[Jefferson]

When I de-install AC7 I find the prefs in the root of the ArchiCAD folder, with 7.0 in the name instead of 8.1.
When I rename them to 8.1 and put them into the prefs-location you mentioned and overwrite them nothing happens.

You are on a PC? [not in your signature]

Now I am NO computer science whiz, but I believe that the two versions are basically separate and different "animals", so overwriting from one version to another is not an option. So as I said before you will have to go through the task of setting up your preferences in ver 8.1, either rebuild/update, from scratch. Then you will have them available to you. There are a couple of other pref files kept in the same folder, Plotmaker prefs etc. and I just drag a copy of ALL of them when needed and on my next start up I'm "good to go".