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Title: Import preferences and settings from MC12: possible?
Post by: MarkCoutinho on March 20, 2009, 03:13:53 am

Hi,
I just tried upgrading to MC 13 from 12. Worked just fine, but.... I really don't want to tweak all the settings again which I had in MC 12. Is there a way to export/import the stuff from the registry or wherever?
Apparantly just renaming the MC12-key in the register to MC13 (replacing the just made MC13 key, that is) did not do the trick.

Help would be much appreciated.

Title: Re: Import preferences and settings from MC12: possible?
Post by: MarkCoutinho on March 21, 2009, 07:53:59 am

Bump.
Anyone?

Title: Re: Import preferences and settings from MC12: possible?
Post by: JimH on March 21, 2009, 08:05:03 am

Did you allow MC to convert your library?  You could try restoring in MC13 from an MC12 backup.

Title: Re: Import preferences and settings from MC12: possible?
Post by: MarkCoutinho on March 21, 2009, 09:03:39 am

Thanks for your reply, Jim. I did let MC convert my library. But I'm talking about the settings. For instance: my saved View-Layouts, Favorites; Top Toolbar View etc.
That did not come with the conversion.

Title: Re: Import preferences and settings from MC12: possible?
Post by: MarkCoutinho on March 22, 2009, 04:20:29 pm

Bump again.
Jim or whoever: any other suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: Import preferences and settings from MC12: possible?
Post by: gappie on March 22, 2009, 05:09:17 pm

Quote from: MarkCoutinho on March 21, 2009, 09:03:39 am

Thanks for your reply, Jim. I did let MC convert my library. But I'm talking about the settings. For instance: my saved View-Layouts, Favorites; Top Toolbar View etc.
That did not come with the conversion.

no, those things dont come with a conversion..
i understood there is some talk about putting some part of the settings in the library, but im afraid you have to do some tweaking new..  :P

 :)
gab

Title: Re: Import preferences and settings from MC12: possible?
Post by: MarkCoutinho on March 23, 2009, 04:43:00 am

Bummer..
Thanks, Gap, anyhow. Hopefully it will be integrated somewhere somehow in a new version.

Title: Re: Import preferences and settings from MC12: possible?
Post by: hit_ny on March 23, 2009, 09:36:00 am

You might try some of the suggestions mentioned here (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=48833.0)

Title: Re: Import preferences and settings from MC12: possible?
Post by: MarkCoutinho on March 23, 2009, 09:39:40 am

Thanks! I'll give it a go.

Title: Re: Import preferences and settings from MC12: possible?
Post by: Eccles on May 28, 2009, 05:54:19 pm

Another vote for this to be included in an upcoming release.  It's a major PITA to have to recreate all one's preferences, views, etc, when upgrading to a new release, and the average user isn't going to go digging through support forums and wikis to find out how to do something that the product should do automatically as part of the installation process.

If Firefox can automatically import preferences, etc, from other browsers, then MC should be able to import preferences from earlier versions of itself.