Where are Macros stored on a Mac?

[Rich B]

I was having an issue with Affinity Photo 1.8.4 and decided to delete it and redownload from my iMac, running Mojave. Exported my macros first, but forgot to export another category. I have CCC clones, so thought I'd just copy the macros over to the new installation, but can't find them and a search has turned up nothing.

Any help is much appreciated.

[thomaso]

You could try this: ~/Library/Application Support/Affinity Photo/user/macros.propcol

I suppose for a search with macOS you need to activate additionally to search for system files, too.

[markw]

If you got Photo from the App Store then the path to the Macros file will be: ~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto/Data/Library/Application Support/user/macros.propcol

[Rich B]

Thank you thomaso & Mark W so much. This is what I was looking for and I was able to recover my missing macros. It's curious that thomaso's and markw's  answers were both correct, but used a paths to get to those files. Would that be related to mark's statement regarding the app store?

 thomaso     ~/Library/Application Support/Affinity Photo/user/macros.propcol

markw      ~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto/Data/Library/Application Support/user/macros.propcol

Really appreciate the help

[walt.farrell]

9 hours ago, Rich B said:

It's curious that thomaso's and markw's  answers were both correct, but used a paths to get to those files. Would that be related to mark's statement regarding the app store?

Preferences for App Store applications are stored in a different location, as noted above.

See, also:

 

[Rich B]

Walt,

Thanks for the clarification and further reference.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.