Backup and Restore All The Paintshop Pro Settings

[freekey]

Hi all.

I just migrated to a new PC and also to the new Corel Paintshop Pro X7.

So how do I transfer all the settings and preferences that I have set on the Corel Paintshop Pro X6 on my old PC?

That means how do I retrieve all the Presets that I have made and also all the Plugins settings as well.

Thank you very much for helping.

[trueblue]

Unless plugins have to be installed such as EyeCandy or others, just copy the folders to the new X7.

I deleted the set of folders created by PSP and then added all my presets, brushes etc., from X6 to to X7.

Open PSP, File, File Locations and check that each of the File Types have both Corel's and your folders....... normally documents / Corel PaintShop Pro / 17 ....

I wouldn't import the X6 workspace from your old PC to your new one. It may cause you problems if you do. Start afresh and make a new workspace with all settings for X7.

[freekey]

Thanks for your reply.

So, all of them need to be done manually?

Is there any way of capturing those info in a single file?

Or at least is there a file inside Corel Paintshop Pro that I could edit all the file locations in one shot?

As for the workspace, I did import the workspace from X6 and so far I have no problem with that.

Thank you.

[freekey]

But what about the Preferences setting e.g Warnings etc.

Do I have to set them all over again? Oh no

[freekey]

Anyone??

I'm migrating from Corel Paintshop Pro 2019 to Corel Paintshop Pro 2020.

Please help.

Thank you.

[LeviFiction]

Too tired to look it up but I did make a script that can export and import general preferences. It's in the scripting area.

[ehume]

Unlike some other apps, you can run all the versions of PSP in parallel. Look at my sig. I list 14 PSP versions there, and they all happily coexist. They can run at the same time.

Unfortunately, because the devs have added new features, you should not reuse your old profiles. I did this back when I got PSP 2019 for a trial spin. I had been using PSPx10 (PSP 2018). The workspaces opened just fine but they lacked the new features in PSP 2019. Apparently, this would be difficult, or it might compromise PSP's complete customizability or something. so either write down what you have on your old PSP, run the old PSP in parallel and customize until they match, or make new decisions on what you want on your toolbar and where you want it. You can even safe intermediate workspaces.

If you recreate your old customizations, just remember that it is a task you will need to do but once.