Designer Beta 2.0.3.1670 does not import settings, tool and toolbar customisation from V2 install?

[Intuos5]

For me to participate in the Beta, I would like the Beta to import any customisations I made from V2.

My V1 settings are no longer up to date (in the sense that I made major tool, toolbar and hotkey modifications. While I could load the shortcuts from V2, this still leaves any other UI customisations and settings alone.

Is this a technical limitation to the way the Beta is installed currently?

[walt.farrell]

23 hours ago, Intuos5 said:

For me to participate in the Beta, I would like the Beta to import any customisations I made from V2.

They don't do that, and never have. 

As you're on Windows it would be easy enough for you to copy the files from %USERPROFILE%\.affinity\<name>\2.0\ into %USERPROFILE%\.affinity\<name>\2.0 (Beta)\ but I'm not sure Serif would recommend doing that. 

If you choose to do so, you'll probably want to copy Common as well as the individual application directories. And you'll want to make backups first, of course. Edit: Serif have indicated that copying Common is not advisable. See below.

[Intuos5]

11 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

They don't do that, and never have.

I understand that. I don't know if it is easy to incorporate that into V2, because V2 Betas will import the V1 settings if Serif doesn't address this
And it would get people up to speed testing faster.

14 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

As you're on Windows it would be easy enough for you to copy the files from %USERPROFILE%\.affinity\<name>\2.0\ into %USERPROFILE%\.affinity\<name>\2.0 (Beta)\ but I'm not sure Serif would recommend doing that.

Any comments from Serif whether or not I can use this method? Don't want to end up filing a bug report if I happen to find something when its related to corruption from pasting userprefs.

[Sean P]

22 hours ago, Intuos5 said:

I understand that. I don't know if it is easy to incorporate that into V2, because V2 Betas will import the V1 settings if Serif doesn't address this
And it would get people up to speed testing faster.

Any comments from Serif whether or not I can use this method? Don't want to end up filing a bug report if I happen to find something when its related to corruption from pasting userprefs.

Hi Intuos5
The Content Migration is purely designed for users importing V1 content (as in brushes, assets, styles etc). It was never designed to import Studio Layouts, Shortcuts etc

Walt's suggestion of copying the folder inside %USERPROFILE%\.affinity\ is should generally be fine. However if it was just Studio Layouts you're looking for then you only need to copy over the Workspaces folder inside of that. 

However I would suggest you don't copy over any data inside the Common folder.

[walt.farrell]

31 minutes ago, Sean P said:

However I would suggest you don't copy over any data inside the Common folder.

Unfortunately, much of the configuration info of interest to the user is likely to be in Common, now.

But thanks for the warning. I've edited my post, above.