Re: st: Can we port Stata windowing and graphics preferences between computers?

[Tim <lists@timbp.com>]

I think the preferences are stored in the Windows registry.

So you should be able run regedit, find the Stata entries (probably 
under hkey_current_user) and export them. Then you can import them on 
another computer.

Standard warning about DO NOT MESS WITH THE WINDOWS REGISTRY applies. I 
don't know if there are machine specific entries that will cause 
problems if imported to another machine. If I were to approach this 
myself, I would try to identify and export the minimum I need. In 
practice, I only have 2 or 3 changes from the default, so I would just 
redo these changes on the new installation.

Tim

Roger Newson wrote:
> Thanks to Eric for these suggestions.
>
> Unfortunately, at least on my Windows version of Stata, the File menu 
> contains nothing about saving preferences, only about saving (and 
> importing) data. And the Edit menu has an option "Preferences", which 
> has sub-options about loading, saving and deleting preferences, but 
> nothing about any files that they might be loaded from or saved to. And 
> the help for -window manage prefs- also contains a lot about loading and 
> saving preference sets, but not much about what files they might be 
> loaded or saved to. Presumably, they must be saved somewhere, but I have 
> not yet managed to find anything that looks like it might be one of 
> them, either in the sub-folders of the Stata11 program folder, or in the 
> various "Documents and Settings" folders that we have under Windows. I 
> don't know if it is different under MacOS, or if the ".rc" files that 
> Eric mentions are a clue. I will keep on looking.
>
> On 11/03/2010 20:55, Eric Booth wrote:
> > >
> >
> > I've never tried this, so this is just a guess, but can you not just 
> > save your preferences from the "File" menu (in Mac OS X it creates a 
> > ".rc" file), locate that file and copy to a new machine, and then 
> > use/open the file from the same menu?  I've used it to change 
> > windowing preferences when switching my laptop from being plugged into 
> > an external monitor to the classroom podium projector, but I've never 
> > tried it across multiple machines or platforms.
> >
> > If you are looking for a command line solution, you can use the 
> > -window manage prefs- command (type "help window manage prefs") to 
> > load and save preferences; so you could put that command in your 
> > do-file or your profile.do file.
> >
> > ~ Eric
> > __
> > Eric A. Booth
> > Public Policy Research Institute
> > Texas A&M University
> > ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
> >
> >
> > On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Roger Newson wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any way that Stata users can save windowing, font and 
> > > graphics preferences in such a way as to be portable between 
> > > different computers? (Or at least between different computers sharing 
> > > the same operating environment?)
> > >
> > > I ask because my hard disk failed without warning last Friday. 
> > > Fortunately, I managed to re-install my Stata (Version 11, release 
> > > date 09 March 2010, under Windows XP, with over 60 user-defined 
> > > packages) on a temporary PC without much trouble, and do not expect 
> > > to have much trouble porting everything back to my old PC when a new 
> > > hard drive is installed. However, it would be even better if I could 
> > > save my preferences to a server and load them again, without any 
> > > manual tweaking.
> > >
> > > I like the new standard preference sets for presentations, shipped 
> > > with Stata 11, which are pre-optimized with large fonts for 
> > > visibility to people with poor eyesight at the back of the hall. 
> > > However, ideally, I would like also to be able to define an equally 
> > > automatic preference set, with small fonts, for my own daily use, and 
> > > not to have to reconstruct it when I move to a new PC.
> > >
> > > Best wishes
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
> > >
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