All my preferences are gone after I changed the folder name

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Hello.After exporting a video in Premiere Pro, if I want to watch my exported video, I type "24" in the windows search to find that folder, but sometimes irrelevant things pop up in the search. For this reason, I wanted to change the name of the 24.0 folder to "qwe", to ensure that irrelevant folders won't pop up in the search again. But now all my settings, preferences and projects are gone in Premiere Pro, it basically turned to default one. I changed the "qwe" folder to 24.0 again, but my settings still did not return.

PaulMurphy · Answer

Hi there,I would strongly recommend against renaming Premiere's preferences folder. This folder stores all your system settings, keyboard shortcuts, presets, etc. If Premiere Pro cannot locate this folder when it loads, it will create a new one and reset everything.To restore your old preferences, follow these steps:Quit Premiere ProDelete the new 24.0 folderRename your old preferences folder back to its original nameRe-open Premiere ProInstead of exporting to this folder, export to another folder with a unique name on your computer. You can create a shortcut or alias for this folder so you can quickly locate all your exported files.Cheers,Paul

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