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Saving Your Preferences
This is an older method to manipulate preferences; it has been updated to work with SynthEyes 2025, though it’s output will not run in older versions of SynthEyes.
Saving presets as JSON files is the recommended method now. We include a description of the script here for reference or occasional use. The discussion of additional files containing preference-type information is still relevant, though those additional files are likely to be unused in the future, as several additional files in earlier SynthEyes versions already have.
You can save most preferences using the Save button on the preferences panel, which launches the exporter "File/Export/Plain Text/Preferences as script". It produces a
.szl file that you can later run on the same machine or a different machine to transfer your preferences there. Use Script/Run Script and select the exported file to run it.
This exporter has a variety of options and can produce an explanatory listing as well (which produces a .txt file that is then opened).
Important : Preferences as script does not export or reset all preferences, only those appearing on the left side of the preferences panel. Delete the preferences file or Edit/Reset Preferences for the most complete reset. Some exported preferences may be inappropriate for a target machine with a different operating system, screen resolution, or file system layout. You should look at the exported settings to verify their suitability.
SynthEyes stores some information in separate files, not in the preferences, such as keybd14.ini (key mapping), shotpreset.txt, prepsetprefs.prp, usertoken.dat, and winlayout14.xml. There are standard system versions of these files in the SynthEyes
install; if you have changed the listed items, a custom copy of the entire file is stored in your user area (not a list of changes, for example).
As you save the preferences, you are given the option to include those files in the created script, so that you can carry only the single .szl file to the new system in order to recreate those files. Only user-customized versions of the files will be saved; the system versions are never transferred.
When you run the exported script, you'll have the option to allow or deny each type of information to be changed, and each individual file to be overwritten or not.
If you've customized these additional files, you may want to Save the preferences and reset the associated files from time to time to ensure you are picking up the latest capabilities in new SynthEyes versions, so that you don't have orphaned viewport configuration file, especially.
Tip : Use the Listing button on the Edit/Edit Keyboard Map panel to see what keyboard mappings you've changed versus the standard factory settings. If you haven't changed anything, you can skip including them in the script.
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