Where are the preferences stored?

[Derek]

I can't find where the preferences for the editor (4.1 beta) are stored, done a quick search but didn't find anything, it's just that everything was fine last night and then tonight I load PB and everything has been reset.

[ts-soft]

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Procedure.s GetSpecialFolder(CSIDL.l)
  Protected *itemid.ITEMIDLIST
  Protected location.s = Space(#MAX_PATH)

  If SHGetSpecialFolderLocation_ (0, CSIDL, @*itemid) = #NOERROR
    If SHGetPathFromIDList_(*itemid, @location)
      If Right(location, 1) <> "\" : location + "\" : EndIf
      ProcedureReturn location
    EndIf
  EndIf
EndProcedure

RunProgram("notepad", GetSpecialFolder(#CSIDL_APPDATA) + "PureBasic\PureBasic.prefs", "")

[Derek]

Great, thanks. Will be able to copy them from one computer to the other.

[PB]

This is from http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=27343 :

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 - For Vista compatibility nothing is written in the PureBasic dir anymore
 - The temporary exe is placed in the Windows temp dir
 - The Preferences location was moved to %App Data%\PureBasic\ for all preferences
   NOTE: This cann still be changed with the /P, /A, /T commandline switches to specify different
         locations for the preferences files.
 - New commandline switch /PORTABLE which puts all preferences in the PureBasic dir (as before),
   and disables the creation of the .pb extension for USB sticks and such.

[Derek]

Must of missed that, thanks, still haven't any idea why my prefs were lost though.

[Trond]

I can't find where the preferences for the editor (4.1 beta) are stored, done a quick search but didn't find anything, it's just that everything was fine last night and then tonight I load PB and everything has been reset.

Copy *.prefs from the PureBasic directory into %APPDATA%\PureBasic.

[Derek]

BTW, what I meant was that I couldn't find them anywhere on my computer, it was like they were deleted. Thanks to everyone anyway.