In Acrobat DC, is export/import of custom toolbar settings possible?

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September 18, 2019
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I need to move an Acrobat DC installation from a Win7 PC to a Win10 PC and would like to know how to save the toolbar customizations that have been done on the old machine so they can be imported on the new machine rather than having to be manually recreated. Are there export/import options for these settings? Or are these settings in a file or folder that can be moved? Or, if these settings are in the registry, what keys need to be exported?

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Correct answer Joel Geraci

Yes - you can migrate these settings. See this document

https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/AdminGuide/advancedconfig.html#tools-and-tool-set-configuration

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MG1967de

Participant

After an automatic update, my Adobe Reader installation showed a totally empty toolbar.

I have found

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVGeneral\cCommonToolsDesktop

with entries lke

"a0"=""
"a1"=""
… and so on.

After deleting the empty keys and recustomising the toolbar within the Adobe Reader UI, the keys are set like this:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVGeneral\cCommonToolsDesktop]
"a0"="Save"
"a1"="Print"
"a2"="Undo"
"a3"="Redo"
"a4"="Find"
"a5"="FindSearch"
"a6"="GoToPage"
"a7"="GoBack"
"a8"="GoForward"
"a9"="ContinuousFitWidth"
"a10"="OnePageFitPage"
"a11"="TwoPages"
"a12"="RotateCW"
"a13"="PageViewCollection"
"a14"="SelectMenuItem"
"a15"="HandMenuItem"
"a16"="ZoomViewIn"
"a17"="ZoomViewOut"
"a18"="ZoomTo"

Just save these lines to a .reg file and import it into your registry, and the toolbar will be customised.

For your own purposes, customise the toolbar as preferred, and export the respective registry key (use regedit). The exported file should be fine for migrating or repairing your toolbar preferences.

My OS and installation:

Windows11

Installed Acrobat: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe
Version: 26.1.21563.0

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ThomK330

Participant

Technically you might be able to figure out from that post but I got it to work by editing the registry.

Shortened version:

Go to source machine and edit the registry, search registry for "cFavoritesCommandsDesktop", it should appear in something like "Computer\HKEY_USERS\<some long sequence of mainly numbers>\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVGeneral\cFavoritesCommandsDesktop" and export it out and call it SOURCE or something descriptive.
To be safe, on target machine, edit the registry, find the above key and export it out and then delete the key.
Still on the target machine, import the key you exported from the SOURCE machine.

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arpcpro1234

Participant

Thanks for the answer but it does not work.

I hate these softwares that spread their configurations files all over the disk and in complex folders. Searching in my entire drive, there are no *.aaui files found. I have Adobe Reader DC 20.009.20074.

In the mentioned folders all I have is:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\11.0

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\DC

and then inside DC there is no folder called UICustomization.