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• • March 23, 2016 at 9:38 am #83284
    Melise Gerber

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    For reasons that are too depressing to relate, I need to completely reformat my computer (which runs Windows 7) and do a clean reinstall of everything on it. This means that I am going to lose all of the customizations that I have made to my Adobe products. I was able to find a good video on saving Lightroom customizations, but nothing similar for InDesign–which is the Adobe product where I have the most customized elements. I am not just talking about my preferences, but things like keyboard shortcuts, GREP search/replace queries, etc. I got a new computer less than a year ago, and am still finding elements that I had customized that I didn’t even remember until I can’t use them again (2 hours spent yesterday trying to recreate that GREP search/replace query).

    Can anyone direct me to a resource that tells me which folders I should back up somewhere before wiping my system and reinstalling?

  • March 23, 2016 at 9:51 am #83286
    David Blatner

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    Many of the files are stored in the same place as the preferences files: https://creativepro.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences.php
    More here:

    How to store customized settings of Menu Customization dialog box (In CS5) to transfer to other computer?

  • March 24, 2016 at 3:22 pm #83379
    Melise Gerber

    Member

    Thanks! I knew that you guys would have an answer for me.

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