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Hello all,

I have been using S3D for quite some time now and loving it. I had a drive go a bit crazy and I cannot boot to it, where my S3D installation was. I can still access this drive now as an external and the entire file structure is still intact.

I am wondering if it's possible to farm out the critical config and FFF files that I created and bring them into my new S3D install on my working system? Please say yes and how to do so.

Thanks much!

Well assuming you can't do the normal File > Export FFF Profile route, then you might have some luck looking at the locations mentioned here:
https://www.simplify3d.com/support/faq/#faq-4628

Thank you for the info and link! Just what I needed. Back up and running now.

Update: at time of writing, the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.simplify3d.S3D-Software.plist has *all* the profiles embedded; copy this file to the same location on a new Mac, and the new s3d will magically have all the old profiles.

My computer crashed, and will not boot. Fortunately I have full TimeMachine backups of my computer. I'm accessing the backups from another machine, and looking through the Library/Preferences directory, and there is no com.simplify3d.S3D-Software.plist
All the plists in this directory are com.apple - this makes me think that only apple plists are allowed in this directory? Anyone know where else I can look for these files?

This is a very old thread and there are many other more recent topics about where V5 stores settings. For reference though, here's a page on our FAQ that shows exactly where the various files are stored:
https://www.simplify3d.com/resources/faq/#quest-6350

If you need further assistance, please make a new thread so we can avoid resurrecting these very old ones.