Moving Mac Photoshop preferneces from machine to machine

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Jason Snape
Jun 14, 2005
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Hi,

Is it possible to copy preference files from one Mac to another, if so which files do I copy & from where. A cursory investigation didnt’t indicate anything obvious.

Thanks, Jason

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nomail
Jun 14, 2005
Jason Snape wrote:

Is it possible to copy preference files from one Mac to another, if so which files do I copy & from where. A cursory investigation didnt’t indicate anything obvious.

Preference files are in ~/Library/Preferences. Look for the files and folders with ‘Adobe’ and/or ‘Photoshop’ in their name, such as the ‘Adobe Photoshop CS2 Settings’ folder.


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edjh
Jun 15, 2005
Jason Snape wrote:
Hi,

Is it possible to copy preference files from one Mac to another, if so which files do I copy & from where. A cursory investigation didnt’t indicate anything obvious.

Thanks, Jason

In general not a very good idea. Why do you want to do this? There may be a better way to achieve what you want.


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Jason Snape
Jun 16, 2005
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Jason Snape wrote:
Hi,

Is it possible to copy preference files from one Mac to another, if so which files do I copy & from where. A cursory investigation didnt’t indicate anything obvious.

Thanks, Jason

In general not a very good idea. Why do you want to do this? There may be a better way to achieve what you want.

The problem I’m having is that EPS files saved on one machine are not opening on another machine. I’ve just found out, however, that the machine that is saving the files is running CS2 and the machine opening the files is running CS1, I think this is probably the root of the problem as all settings that I can see are identical on both. I’ve checked Google & the Adobe web site but I’ve had no luck so far, any ideas?

Cheers, Jase.
JM
John McWilliams
Jun 16, 2005
Jason Snape wrote:
edjh wrote in news:h1Lre.103$S17.24925
@monger.newsread.com:

Jason Snape wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to copy preference files from one Mac to another, if so which files do I copy & from where. A cursory investigation didnt’t indicate anything obvious.

Thanks, Jason

In general not a very good idea. Why do you want to do this? There may be a better way to achieve what you want.

The problem I’m having is that EPS files saved on one machine are not opening on another machine. I’ve just found out, however, that the machine that is saving the files is running CS2 and the machine opening the files is running CS1, I think this is probably the root of the problem as all settings that I can see are identical on both. I’ve checked Google & the Adobe web site but I’ve had no luck so far, any ideas?
I’d say you may have uncovered the problem, which can be cured most likely by upgrading the machine with CS to CSII.

I generally avoid migrating Prefs unless I am duplicating everything. IAE, you can create a supplemental plugins folder that may be useful.


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