Where are Dorico libraries, etc., stored?

I have two Windows computers with Dorico installed on each. One is a desktop on which I do most of my work; the other is a laptop that I take with me to rehearsals, etc.

I want to be able to keep these two computers in sync. For example, suppose I create a new instrument on one of those computers–say, one that represents an alto recorder in G that is notated analogously to a saxophone, with the printed notes one whole tone below concert pitch. I think I understand how to do that–but is there a way to propagate that instrument to the other computer?

If all user additions to the library are stored in a known folder, I can replicate that folder between the two machines. Can someone point me at documentation that will help me figure out how to do this?

%APPDATA%\Roaming\Steinberg\Dorico 5\userlibrary.xml

There’s no documentation for this in the Operation Manual at present. But as Craig says, the main user-level application data folder is:

Windows: %APPDATA%\Roaming\Steinberg\Dorico 5\
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 5/

Everything in this folder can be moved to another machine if you want to reproduce the same setup there, but watch out for the preferences.xml file, which contains some machine-specific paths, especially importantly the path for auto-save. If you move preferences.xml to another computer, make sure that the path described within for auto-save actually exists on the new computer.

Thanks!

As far as I can tell in Windows, jumpbar aliases are only stored in the Registry at

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Steinberg-Dorico5\jumpBarAliases

and not anywhere within

%APPDATA%\Roaming\Steinberg\Dorico 5\

Is this correct?

Yes, that is correct. We are planning to move this data, and a few other similar things, from the Windows Registry (or property list files in ~/Library/Preferences/ on macOS) into files in the user application data folder in future, to make it easier to move them between machines if desired.

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