Save preferences

[Philippe Malera]

We want to save all our preferences, mean also "Files locations" and "Connections" into physical files rather than registry.
Actually it is saved in Registry, but we want to share preferences on different machines.
Any idea ?

 

[Marco Kalter]

Both are saved in your preference file at:

%APPDATA%\PLSQL Developer\\user.prefs

For example: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\PLSQL Developer\user.prefs

The 2 sections you need are [Connections] and [FileBrowserFolders].

 

[Philippe Malera]

Oh thanks, I was searching in the wrong path.
Sorry for disturbing.

 

[Bradnam]

hmmmm.

Copied the .prefs file from AppData\Roaming\PLSQL Developer\Preferences\user\ and loaded onto new machine running Developer.

exported registry for LOCAL_USER and loaded that onto new machine.

Run Developer and some of the settings were remembered....but, layout, toolbars, shortcut keys all remained as 'out of the box' settings.

So I am missing something! Is there an easy way to export all settings from one PC and load them onto another?

 

[Hilarion]

In case of PL/SQL Developer v.11 you have the preferences export/import function (little button at the bottom of the Preferences window, beside "Apply" button).

 

[Bradnam]

OK....problem is I have version 10 on one machine and am trying to export all settings and preferences to a new machine running version 11.

Loaded the registry and the prefs file but am still missing things like double-click behaviours on the tree view, short-cuts (e.g. Ctrl-Q to open a new SQL window) etc etc etc.

 

[Bradnam]

Ah...Also needed the default.ini file

Marco...default.ini and user.prefs appear to be where version 10 saves settings but do you also need a registry export to complete the picture?