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

Community Beginner ,
Sep 18, 2019 Sep 18, 2019

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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Sep 18, 2019 Sep 18, 2019
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New Here ,
Jul 10, 2020 Jul 10, 2020

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.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 10, 2020 Jul 10, 2020

This only works in Acrobat, not in the free Reader. The two are not the same thing, although the latter is now called Acrobat Reader, unfortunately.

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 31, 2022 Aug 31, 2022
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Technically you might be able to figure out from that post but I got it to work by editing the registry.

 

Shortened version:

  1.  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.
  2. To be safe, on target machine, edit the registry, find the above key and export it out and then delete the key.
  3.  Still on the target machine, import the key you exported from the SOURCE machine.

 

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