How to back up custom PT app shortcuts

[PeterScherr]

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

[its2loud]

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).

[PeterScherr]

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

[its2loud]

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.

[john1192]

i think the Pete Gates PT PRefs app will give you this option ... to Save a Clean Set of Prefs for Later usage !!!

[PeterScherr]

"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

[originalscottyg]

Originally Posted by john1192

i think the Pete Gates PT PRefs app will give you this option ... to Save a Clean Set of Prefs for Later usage !!!

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.

[Benny_Cha_Cha]

Peter! I use Keyboard Maestro. Totally avoids this issue and does way, way more.


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