[PD] puredata preferences ? ...

[Miller Puckette]

It's in the "registry", under "Software\\Pd", in the "local machine" area.

cheers
Miller

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 03:49:27PM +0200, oliver wrote:
> hi,
> 
> can anybody tell me where PD's preferences are stored on a w32 system ?
> 
> "puredata.info" says:
> _______________________________________________________________________________________________
> 
> 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
> _______________________________________________________________________________________________
> 
> 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
> 
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