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How to save preferences for use across multiple desktops?

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April 16, 2020
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As above. Is there a quick way to export my settings/preferences so that I can use them with any desktop? In particular, the toolbars that I hide/show and single key accelerators.

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JR Boulay

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Preferences of Acrobat DC are automatically shared across computers when you are logged in (except for Add-On tools).

I don't know for Acrobat XI.

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curiouscat951Author

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All the PCs are using Acrobat DC with the same version, with a different user subscription and different hardware configuration but same Windows 10 x64. However, some are in Work Environment, and some are Shared PCs.

Is there a settings file I can just copy and paste across the PCs then?

ls_rbls

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In the link that I

posted in my first reply see the section "Restore (re-create) preferences"

Thatis the preferences folder.

But if you take the time to read the guidance, you will notice that there are bumps ahead.

A lot of user preferences settings are also scattered throughout different registry hives and keys.

I don't wnat to give you the incorrect guidance, even though I think this is possible, and of course, if you know what you're doing.

However, JR also mentioned about preferences automatically shared accross the network.

This means that you must have the ability to login with your same user account on each computer.

You may also need administrative rights in order to be able to access other hidden folders and write to them.

Overall, I think is possible, but this is totally the incorrect guidance.

I have to ask, if the Acrobat preferences are shared automatically throughout a network, why do you need to install a copy of the preferences settings locally on each computer?

ls_rbls

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The answer to this question is a may be yes and may be no.

It depends on many factors.

See this guidance on how to reset preferences:

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/workspace-basics.html

Now, the link above only covers on a single computer.

So, it is possible to backup and restore a directory with user preferences to be used with a new account.

But if you're in a network environment, that is accomplished via user roaming profiles and administrative Group Policy templates that are enforced and centralized from a server.

Also, keep in mind licensing criteria considerations.

You can't just copy user preferences from a windows 10 machine with Acrobat Pro DC with a monthly paid subscription and go and paste it somewhere in another machine that runs with an older of Windows and/or a different licensing track od Adobe Acrobat Pro, for example.

For this to work the best you need to have every computer with the same hardware specs, the same operating system version and updates applied, the same Adobe Acrobat product and same version updates applied, and keep in mind that even so, if you have a paid subscription, you cannot use your current subscription with the same AdobeID in more than one computer simultaneously. You'll always must sign out first from one computer device before you sign in in another.

If this is a network setting environment ask your IT Manager if they can create for you a user roaming profle.

It is the IT department responsibility to administer user accounts, and the handling of the licensing and updates requirements when you need this type of setup.

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