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mmtom
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February 16, 2007
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Transferring Preferences to new computer

  • February 16, 2007
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Hi!

I've made a very significant number of changes in DreamWeaver 8's Preferences, including several dozen changes to the colors in Code Coloring. I've also made many customizations to the workspace layout, including positioning and renaming panel groups, changing which panels are grouped together in given panel groups, changing which toolbars are visible and where they are positioned.

I now need to roll out these changes to at least 2 or 3 more computers, on which I am about to install DW 8.

To re-create all of these configuration changes would take me at least 3 hours per computer. Is there any way to transfer the settings en mass?

I read the other similar question in this forum, but that message referred to site settings, which is the one thing that I do NOT want to transfer!

Thank you in advance for any help.

Tom.
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Correct answer Newsgroup_User
mmtom wrote:
> To re-create all of these configuration changes would take me at least 3 hours
> per computer. Is there any way to transfer the settings en mass?

Code coloring preferences are user-specific and stored in XML files at
the following location:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application
Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Configuration\CodeColoring

Copy the files and paste them in the target computer. Then restart
Dreamweaver.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

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Newsgroup_UserCorrect answer
Inspiring
February 16, 2007
mmtom wrote:
> To re-create all of these configuration changes would take me at least 3 hours
> per computer. Is there any way to transfer the settings en mass?

Code coloring preferences are user-specific and stored in XML files at
the following location:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application
Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Configuration\CodeColoring

Copy the files and paste them in the target computer. Then restart
Dreamweaver.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/
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mmtomAuthor
Participant
February 16, 2007
quote:
Code coloring preferences are user-specific and stored in XML files at
the following location:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application
Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Configuration\CodeColoring


Thanks! I found some other preferences (like the workspace layouts) there too.

I also found many preferences in the windows registry, at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8

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