Transferring settings from one PC to another

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I’m trying to migrate my settings in audacity on one pc to use them in a fresh download of audacity on another pc. I keep finding not very useful advice on how to do this. Could someone run me how to do this using a USB flash drive?

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There’s a hidden folder which contains your audacity preferences …

Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\audacity\

If you copy that folder to the same location on your other PC it should duplicate your settings.

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/preferences.html#stored

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Thanks Trebor. For reason I cannot fathom the said folders do not exist on my PC. Even when I 'unhide hidden folders they are nowhere to be found. It’s a puzzle.
I think I’ve now found a workaround that involves saving my effects settings to USB and my macros as an HTML doc.
Cheers

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Hold down the the Windows key and press “R”.
This Run app should appear, input “%AppData%”, then press OK,
run

then open the “Roaming” folder which appears:
the “Hidden” Audacity folder should be in there.

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Thanks Trebor. It definitely wasn’t there before, no matter how I entered %appdata%. I tried it as you have set out and %Appdata%, and %AppData%, all to no avail. But you seem to have worked some magic, as when I did it just now, there it was. I have a sneaking suspicion that it ‘repaired’ itself. Thank you once again.
Andy