Does switching accounts change or delete presets?

[1CreativeFlair]

My employer is switching our CC license from teams to enterprise.  So they are signing us out of our old CC accounts and into new ones.  Does that reset or delete presets like brushes, workspaces, and other preferences that are stored locally on my computer?  It makes sense to me that anything stored on the cloud would need to be backed up and moved manually, but I would not think that local files would be deleted. 

[melissapiccone]

Your preferences should be saved locally. If you have custom stuff like patterns, brushes, styles, etc. you should save those in a seperate file away from your Adobe stuff so you always have access to them. I have brushes from the 90's because I have everything stored.

[1CreativeFlair]

Yes, I do have all of my important presets backed up, even my stuff from the 90's.  I just wanted to double check, since my IT department thought it is going to take up to 30 minutes to transfer from one license to another.  

[r-bin]

On windows, you can try to write a new path in the registry in the section
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Photoshop\140.0
for parameter SettingsFilePath.

P.S. 140.0 => PS2020

[1CreativeFlair]

I must not be understanding something, and I guess it is not that big of a deal since everything is backed up.  My main question is if I simply sign out of the creative cloud and then sign back into the CC as a different user does that reset any preferences or presets? 

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

Any modifications you make to the application beyond out-of-the-box factory state, are stored in your user account on your system drive. It should all be under C > Users > your name > Appdata > Roaming > Adobe > Adobe Photoshop 2020. Open up and check what's there.

As long as it's the same Photoshop version level, I see no reason why all these preferences should suddenly become invalid. It should keep working without missing a beat. It's all there, right where it's supposed to be.

With a version upgrade, however, the path is different.

Not sure about plugins. Some automatically migrate, others not. It depends on how they're written and installed.

EDIT: of course, save out and back up anything you can. I don't want the blame if you lose anything 😉

[1CreativeFlair]

Ok thanks.  That is what I thought.  I just wanted to make sure.  

[1CreativeFlair]

So if anyone cares, I did sign out of my old CC account and signed into the new one, and all of my brushes and presets still work the same as before.  

Now I just need to transfer my Portfolio website. 😉