I am about to do a clean install on my Mac and wanted to check whether I need to save any preferences and how I go about doing that. Most of the things I have changed are related to text formatting but also things like line spacing. I use a blank template (attached) that I have created as the basis for my documents (maybe not the most efficient way of doing it I know) but I would like to know what is saved with that document and whether I need to save individual preferences as well - for example, the customised TAB symbol at the beginning of the tablature stave. Any help gratefully received.
Erasing and reinstalling the OS is almost never necessary. From Big Sur onwards, the OS is on a cryptographically signed, read-only volume, separate from the rest of the disk. So it canât normally be modified, and it wonât boot if it has been altered.
You can delete all user data (e.g. everything apart from the OS) from the System Settings in recent OS versions, without having to erase anything in Disk Utility.
The supposed benefits from a clean install are inversely proportional to the amount of stuff that you restore. If you put everything back, then thereâs no point at all!
If youâre going to be selective about what you restore, then thereâs an argument that you could just delete the stuff youâre not planning to restore, and save a lot of time and effort.
If you want to restore Dorico to just how you left it, then youâll need to copy over the contents of this folder from your backup.
Any given Dorico file will contain âcompleteâ Options, and you could just open your file and click âSave As Defaultâ in each of the âOptionsâ dialogs.
Donât forget the Library Manager, which will show you the settings of any document, and compare them to the current or factory defaults. (Or indeed to another file.)
Thanks for your reply. I will have a think about the clean install options. There are other considerations that have made me consider a more radical solution. However, I canât find the options in the Dorico folder in the above path. It is completely empty? See attached.
And how about /Users/your user name/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 5
where you have to replace âyour user nameâ with your user name on that machine
Obviously not the log files. AutoSave also not, the rest better keep.
And did you make changes to the VST2 search path or the VST2 Whitelist, then you also need to save at some other place, that is /Users/you user name/Library/Preferences/Dorico 5 AudioEngine
Save the VST2PluginsSearchPaths/.xml and the VST2PluginsWhitelist.txt from there
