Exporting Effects Rack Presets to a different computer

[nv_audio]

A couple of months ago I lost all my effect rack presets simply because I held down shift while opening Audition. Now a former of colleague of mine has all of his presets for no apparent reason. They're just all gone. The same goes for his Batch Process favorites.

My colleague tried replacing the effectpresets.xml in the 10.0 folder with an old one he had backed up, but it's like Audition doesn't register the file because none of his old presets show up.

So is there a way to actually make back ups of your presets? Both the effect rack ones and the batch processing ones?

[ryclark · Accepted solution]

The best way is just to save a copy of the whole 10.0 settings folder under a different name. I usually just add .bak to the name. Then you don't even have to try the dodgy trick of shift opening Audition. Instead you just recopy all the contents of the 10.0.bak to it's original settings folder. The backed copy of the effectpresets.xml file should have contained his settings provided the back up was done whilst his custom ones were actually present in it. You can always check any of the .xml settings files by opening them in a .xml reading/editing software. Also you should be able to tell by the size and date whether the files just contained Audition's defaults or had had custom settings added.

[nv_audio]

That sounds like a very good idea, ryclark

Alright, from now on I'll do backups of my 10.0 folder every single day and I'll pass on this idea to my former colleague. Thanks, again!