Manual migration of Adobe applications preferences, plug-ins, settings etc.

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March 6, 2023
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I'm hoping this is the correct community to post in.

I'm moving into a new Mac Studio (Ventura) from a Mac Mini (Monterey) and I've already done fresh installations of the CC apps I use: PS, LrC, PrP, Au, Acro, Br. Now I want to make sure I bring over all the customized settings, preferences, workspaces etc that I've accumulated for all the apps over the various versions since 2019. But I'm a bit overwhelmed by the all the folder possibilities in the two Libraries. I assume everything I need is in my user libary/application support/adobe folder and leave the system libray alone) - but even so, there's a lot! (I've cloned my older system onto a drive, and am copying folders/files from that as needed.)

Any specific pointers for doing this correctly? If you're aware of an illustrated or video tutorial for this, please share that as well. I haven't found one yet.

Thank you.

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lloyd_pdxAuthor

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Thank you all for your suggestions. I'll read through the linked page for Photoshop migration; I suspect that will discuss migrating actions, brushes, etc as well. I can see how preferences will be somewhat easy enough to recreate and avoid corruption. I'll re-post in other groups for Premiere (LUTS, plug-ins, workspaces, etc) and LrC (develop and tool presets, etc) because that may be different than PS? Anything I should be aware of regarding the Adobe "Common" folder?

Stephen Marsh

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@lloyd_pdx

Some specific info on migrating Actions here:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/01/photoshop-custom-action-file-backup.html

And:

https://helpx.adobe.com/au/photoshop/kb/migrate-actions.html

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

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

P.S. If you can keep the old machine running or at least available for a few months, that would be wise as you may find things that you should have migrated that you didn't!

As @Kevin Stohlmeyer wrote: