Preserving Preferences

Khoi Vinh covers something I’ve whined about, the lack of preference preservation in software upgrades:

For instance: I’ve been using Adobe Photoshop, for better or worse, since the early 1990s. And yet for every new computer that I sit down in front of, for every time I start off with a freshly installed operating system, or for every new version of Photoshop that I install, it’s like starting with a brand new copy of the program. Each time, all of the settings for Photoshop’s myriad of tools are reverted to their defaults again, as if I had never touched the program before.

It really is silly that an application as popular and developed as Photoshop requires you to set preferences from scratch for each new version.

# 2007 Sep 21