Smart way to save preferences if you're using the live development environment

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• zoomer

  February 14

  I thought about that too.
  Not as much customization on my side so far, but I always forget that my settings are lost each time.
• falken10vdl

  February 14 edited February 14

  I think here:
  
  which is the userpref.blend file.
  Those are with startup.blend in config directory (/.config/blender/5.0/config in Linux)
  Cheers!

  
• theoryshaw

  February 14

  I swear i tried this already, but will again. Thanks @falken10vdl!
• zoomer

  February 14

  @theoryshaw said:
  I swear i tried this already, but will again. Thanks @falken10vdl!

  Same here ..... :)

  On Mac it is (also) here :
  /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Blender/5.2/config/userpref.blend

  

  It seems to somehow work for Photographer AddOn - without manually saving Blender Settings.
  (I thought Blender will automatically save its Settings ? Manually in case Blender crashes only ?)
  But it seems to use an extra Folder for Presets and Preferences ?

  
• Gorgious

  March 3 edited March 3

  I think live reloading addons reverts all preferences to default. I would create a piggyback script with an application timer that runs something like 1 second after the addon is reloaded to manually setup the values eg (pseudocode) bpy.data.preferences["bonsai"].pdf_command = "c:/My/path.exe"
• theoryshaw

  March 3

  Sprinkled a little AI on it...
  https://hub.openingdesign.com/OpeningDesign/Utility_Apps/src/branch/main/Blender/simple scripts/Bonsai Preferences Script

  Add generic Bonsai preferences startup script
  Adds bonsai_prefs.py — a Blender startup script that applies personal
  Bonsai addon settings on every launch via a load_post handler, keeping
  machine-specific config out of the IfcOpenShell repo.
  
  All user settings are in a single CONFIGURE block at the top of the file.
  Handles Blender extension-style addon keys (bl_ext.user_default.bonsai),
  ghost addon entries with None preferences, and the register() requirement
  introduced in Blender 4.2+.
  
  Generated with the assistance of an AI coding tool.