Simple backward migration possible?

[Charlie Meyerson]

During (what I hope will be) brief repair of an M1 MacBook Air, I’d like to migrate BBEdit and all its preferences (including Text Factories) from that machine, running BBedit 14.6.9 under Sequoia, to an older Intel Mac running Big Sur.

Is this something easily done?

Thanks, as ever!

[Patrick Woolsey]

To start, you can transfer your existing BBEdit preference settings from one Mac to another as follows:

Please make sure BBEdit is not running on either machine, then open the Terminal app on the _source Mac_ and enter the following command (you can copy & paste it):

defaults export com.barebones.bbedit ~/Desktop/BBEditPreferences.plist

Next, transfer the resulting file ("BBEditPreferences.plist") to the Desktop on your _target Mac_, which you can do by any standard means (e.g. via iCloud Drive, AirDrop, or an USB thumb drive).

Then, launch the Terminal app on the target Mac and run the following command to apply the transferred prefs (again, you can copy & paste it):

defaults import com.barebones.bbedit ~/Desktop/BBEditPreferences.plist

In addition, if you have any existing app support items, such as clippings, scripts, and/or text factories, you can also transfer those items from your original machine to the new one.

For complete details on the location and purposes of these items, please see Chapter 2 of the included PDF manual (available at any time by choosing Help -> User Manual).


Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
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Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/>

[Charlie Meyerson]

Thank you! Do those files work for all recent versions of BBEdit? (13, 14, 15?)

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[Patrick Woolsey]

Yes, they do.

Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
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[Charlie Meyerson]

Thanks again!

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