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jbunds
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May 7, 2025
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Would be nice to have our preferences backed up

  • May 7, 2025
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It would be nice that with all these features and all this stuff on the cloud that photoshop would also be able to backup your preferences somehow and save them. Instead everytime I have to re-install photoshop, for any number of reasons, if I don't manually back it up myself then it's all lost. I recently had to re-install windows, didn't have the option to back anything up, and now my settings are gone forever. Seems pretty stupid that this isn't already a thing considering how many people have had problems not having their preferences saved or retrievable after looking through posts.

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c.pfaffenbichler
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May 7, 2025

I suppose one benefit might be that installations on different machines could access the same presets. 

Genius
May 7, 2025

Both Windows and Mac have built-in backup software, and there are loads of third-party backup applications, both free and paid.

Buy an external hard drive, even a slow USB model will work, and start doing backups.

Ged_Traynor
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May 7, 2025

@jbunds "I recently had to re-install windows, didn't have the option to back anything up, and now my settings are gone forever"

And that's the very reason I create a backup image of my SSD on a weekly basis, that way I just re-image it if things go wrong,

It's all done in about 5 minutes, all apps and settings restored to the way they were

c.pfaffenbichler
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May 7, 2025

Alas, considering the misinformed »Adobe is stealing your images«-bruha a while back I wonder what kind of nonsensical accusations might be raised when custom brushes, patterns, shapes, actions etc. were also stored on Adobe servers by default. 

 

There might also be size-issues for some users – abr- and pat-files can, in my experience, easily get pretty big for example.