Where do I find the Publisher "My Presets" presets so I can copy them?

[Affinity-Inspiration]

I'd like to copy the presets for Publisher that I made on my other system so I can copy them and put them onto my new system. Is this even possible. I've got quite a few on the old Mac, but they don't populate into the new iMac installation. Apparently not in the cloud.

Does anyone know where they may be?

Thanks

[walt.farrell]

It's not clear which presets you're asking about, because lots of things in each of the Affinity applications have presets.

However, you'll generally find them in the "user" folder (at least that's what it's called on Windows). This FAQ article tells where to find it, for both Mac and Windows, and depending on which Store you purchased from:

 

[Affinity-Inspiration]

In Publisher, when you create a new document, you can create your own page/layout and it’s then stored under the Tab, “My Presets”…

So it’s not something imported, but created when you create the new document.

[David in Яuislip]

I've just created a new file preset and it appears to be stored in C:\Users\DavidChill\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Publisher\1.0\user

as a file named doc_spread_presets.propcol

I doubt that a windows path will be of any use but hopefully the filename is common. Good luck finding it

[walt.farrell]

 

1 minute ago, David in Яuislip said:

but hopefully the filename is common. Good luck finding

That's the name given in the FAQ article. Thanks.

[David in Яuislip]

@walt.farrell I didn't read the article but created a dummy preset then looked for a file that had changed. A quick nose with a hex editor and I saw the title amongst the gibberish

[Affinity-Inspiration]

Well, I found it on the Mac, in the app directory. Contents->Resources

But it’s not the container.. both the old one on the first Mac, and the new one on the new Mac are both the same size.

Replacing the new with the old makes no difference. 
so the actual presets are held somewhere else. Probably pointed to by the propcol file.

hmmm

[David in Яuislip]

1 hour ago, HarryMcGovern said:

in the app directory. Contents->Resources

On windows there are two versions of doc_spread_presets.propcol. The one in User, not Resources, shows the new preset. Are you sure you've located the correct version?

[walt.farrell]

44 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

The one in User, not Resources, shows the new preset.

Good point. The files in Resources provide the "factory default" values.

1 hour ago, HarryMcGovern said:

Well, I found it on the Mac, in the app directory. Contents->Resources

No. As the FAQ states, it's in

• ~/Library/Application Support/Affinity Publisher/user/
• or ~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinitypublisher/Data/Library/Application Support/user/
• or ~/Library/Containers/Affinity Publisher/Data/Library/Application Support/user/

depending on where you purchased and what version of macOS you're running.

[R C-R]

FWIW, I bought Publisher from the Serif store & the 'my presets' items are stored in a file named "doc_spread_presets.propcol." it is located in the ~/Library/Application Support/Affinity Publisher/user/ folder.

I bought AD & AP from the MAS & they also store 'my presets' in files named  "doc_spread_presets.propcol" but the enclosing folder is ~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner/Data/Library/Application Support/user/ & ~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto/Data/Library/Application Support/user/ respectively.

Note that the tilde & first slash denote the current user's home folder. ~/Library/ is a normally hidden folder. It is not the same as the root level Library or System/Library folders.

[Affinity-Inspiration]

Ok, found it.

Same on both systems, apart from size.

The old one - the one I want. 12kb, the new install, 2kb.

/Users/robertchalmers/Library/Application Support/Affinity Publisher/user/doc_spread_presets.propcol

I replaced the new install with the old protocol file from the original, and there's my preset layouts.

Nice

 

Thanks for the pointers folks.

[AncientWire]

I came here to find this information.  I am now using version 2, which has a different location.  For me it is -

C:\Users\~\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\2.0\Workspaces\Custom\Photo
C:\Users\~\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Designer\2.0\Workspaces\Custom\Vector