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How to back up custom PT app shortcuts
Hi All,
Hoping somebody can clue me in here. I'm on 10.12.6 I like to use the "Keyboard" pane in mac os system prefs to define custom keyboard shortcuts, and I need to find a way to back these up. Every time that I trash pro tools preferences, I have had to restore these manually, and now I have enough so that it's not so easy to remember. They are all kind of muscle memory things now. If there was a way that I could re-load these from a backup before re-starting PT, that would save me heaps of time. BTW, I did see a couple of articles online about this: https://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...-sync-purposes. I'd just like to hear from users who have gotten predictable results restoring their custom shortcuts. Any helpful tips would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! Pete |
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Re: How to back up custom PT app shortcuts
Try this...
Application Shortcuts are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist Property lists of applications (like ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist or ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.chess/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.chess.plist). |
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Re: How to back up custom PT app shortcuts
Hi Loud,
Thanks for chiming in here... yeah, I have grabbed those preferences for future use. Have you tried this? What was your result? My concern is that restoring a file such as: com.avid.ProTools.plist after trashing pt prefs and before cpu restart, but prior to re-launching pro-tools, it might contain other corruptions that caused me to trash pt prefs in the first place. Thanks, Pete |
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Re: How to back up custom PT app shortcuts
Hey Peter,
Yes, that is a concern with the PT prefs. I haven’t run into any issues however. You can clear PT prefs, remake your shortcuts, and save that pref for a later restore should you have to clear preferences in the future. In theory, the earlier saved prefs won’t have the corruption you just trashed. All hypothetical. |
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Re: How to back up custom PT app shortcuts
i think the Pete Gates PT PRefs app will give you this option ... to Save a Clean Set of Prefs for Later usage !!!
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Re: How to back up custom PT app shortcuts
"Yes, that is a concern with the PT prefs. I haven’t run into any issues however. You can clear PT prefs, remake your shortcuts, and save that pref for a later restore should you have to clear preferences in the future. In theory, the earlier saved prefs won’t have the corruption you just trashed."
Hey Gents, thanks... that seems like a logical approach. Like so many, I rely on the Pete Gates PT Prefs app... Pete |
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Re: How to back up custom PT app shortcuts
THIS^^ This works for me on Sierra (10.12.6) & PT|U 2018.7. I have quite a lot of custom shortcuts, so this would be a real PITA if there wasn't an easy way to backup and restore them.
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Re: How to back up custom PT app shortcuts
Peter! I use Keyboard Maestro. Totally avoids this issue and does way, way more.
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