Exporting Application Settings - What Does It Do?

What this does is to export your current ApplicationSettings.xml folder. If you download xml Notepad, and open the file with that, it will display as 29 section folders, with a load of labels and key values in each of them, in a form that's relatively easy to read. It looks typically like this:

There are far too many settings to list, but it's relatively easy to go through them to see what's there. It's important to note what isn't there - keyboard shortcuts aren't, for instance, as I believe that these are somewhat disguised in the registry (or what passes for it on a Mac). As for user-defined favorites, I'm not sure, but they should be.

One thing is pretty clear though. And that is that if you want to transfer your settings to another machine, you would probably be better served by copying the entire Preferences folder, or at least the useful parts of it (these are relatively easy to spot too), which should include all of the application settings, as that's where they are stored.

Now I'll be the first to admit that I haven't tried this for a while, but it should be the case that as long as you replace files in Preferences with the ones you want to use, this should all work out correctly. It would be great if you could export every single setting you'd made in Audition, and have it on another machine as a 'hive' that you could access if you wanted to, but alas that's not possible. As for whether it suits your purposes, all I can really say is to try it. It will be pretty obvious what has worked and what has not, I think.