I have lost again my workspace when updating

Hi,

I’m a professional After Effects user trying to spend less time managing the app and more time animating.

One recurring issue is updates. I just updated AE and lost my workspace again. This keeps happening and breaks my flow.

More broadly, AE is highly customizable, but everything is scattered across the system. Workspaces, presets, plugins, scripts, shortcuts, UI panels… all live in different folders. Each new version also feels like a partial reset and double the file, and I’m never fully confident that everything will carry over correctly.

This becomes a real problem when working on two machines. Keeping everything in sync is time-consuming and frustrating. I’ve heard about using Dropbox, but it seems unreliable depending on what’s being synced.

And it’s not just about major updates. During active contracts, I often make small tweaks to my setup on the fly. In that context, digging through deep folders just to recover a small change becomes slow and and breack the flow, especially under tight deadlines.

So I’m wondering if there’s a better workflow today to centralize all these settings into one folder setup that works across multiple installs andIt can be easily copied to a new computer.

If anyone has a solid system for this, I’d be interested.

Thanks!