Keyboard Shortcuts and Workspaces - I can't easily access and import previous KBSC files

[KillerRabbit]

I've used PS for 2 decades now. I used to be able to click a KBSC file and it would instantly load as a new workspace/keyboard shortcut. Now it does nothing. I spent all morning looking for information on trying to manually install or import via another method like dropping the file in the preferences folder for the system and I've reached the limit of understanding and find a way to achieve what was so simple some years ago.

The reason I'm trying to do this is because I reset my workspace by mistake and all my keyboard shortcuts for that workspace was lost.

Since I had previously saved it and often modified it via the KBSC panel I thought I could easily point to the previous version and I'd be set. Or get the KBSC from my other computer and bring the workspace and KBSC back to the previous version.

So can someone explain why things are more difficult now to do something that was so easy just some years ago? And can you give me a way or method to do what I'm trying to do. Perhaps I need to learn how to think about workspaces differently since it's obviously not the same. What's the point of the "Reset" (your workspace) under Window>Workspace if it will delete all your KBSCs and then you have a useless workspace you may have spent a long time modifying?

That is why I used to save the KBSC (or thought I did with the lastest versions of PS) and modified them and thought they were stored in a folder I can easily access and if anything would go wrong I'd simply double click the KBSC file and it would adjust my workspace and change all my preferences to what I prefer.

[Trevor.Dennis]

I'm pretty sure that the file structure for workspaces has not changed for as long as I remember, but I mostly use Windows.

This page has the file locations.

https://helpx.adobe.com/nz/photoshop/kb/preference-file-names-locations-photoshop.html

What I do is keep the .psw files in a central location in My Documents, and put a windows shortcut to that location in the Workspaces folders (there are two of them).  This lets you share the same workspaces and keyboard shortcuts between multiple versions (Current release version, beta and 22.2 for Lighting Effects). 

As far as double clicking a preset or workspace type file, I think that only loads it into Photoshop Settings file, so easy to lose it.  So I do the same thing with brushes (.abr) and other presets. It also keeps them safe from major update disasters, and we see a few posts about those on this forum!

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

Edit > Presets > Migrate Presets. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preset-migration.html

You can also manually copy kys-files and psw-files to the appropriate Folders. 

~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop [ver]/Presets/Keyboard Shortcuts

~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop [ver]/Settings/WorkSpaces

Hope that helps.