[PD] puredata preferences ? ...

[oliver]

hi,

can anybody tell me where PD's preferences are stored on a w32 system ?

"puredata.info" says:
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When you hit the Save all settings button, your modification will be 
stored to your system. The pdsettings are stored in a platform-dependent 
way as key/value-pairs.

On Windows the preferences are stored in the registry. For Pd-vanilla, 
they are in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Pd. For Pd-extended, they 
are in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Pd-extended
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1.) i searched all over my system for "pdsettings" or the registry for 
that specific key ---> nothing found.
but the preferences i did set are actually loading alright when i start 
PD.

2.) is there a specific reason why those settings are stored in the 
registry and not i.e. in a simple textfile somewhere in the PD folder 
system ? i think this would be a much better and more flexible way, as 
in my case, i run PD from a specific folder on an external harddisk 
without any install procedure (to make it a "portable application")

thanks

oliver