How do you to transfer User Settings on upgrade?

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I’m new to Blender, so please bear with me.

I’m working on a Mac and just upgraded an existing version of Blender (2.67) to the latest (2.68) by overwriting the application in the Applications folder. I know you can run multiple copies simultaneously, but I’m not interested in that at the moment.

Upon firing up 2.68, all my custom user settings are missing as well as my installed themes. I dug around on the wiki and found the default location for user settings are the User and System Application Support directories. Sure enough, I’ve got a /Users/{user}/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.67/ directory with a userpref.blend file in there. A 2.68 folder does not exist yet.

SO, my questions is this: How do I upgrade an existing version of Blender and transfer ALL my user settings, themes, and anything else I’m not aware of (window sizes and locations?)? As much as possible I’d like the upgrade to transparent to my workflow.

Right now I’m not sure whether to manually create a 2.68 folder and copy my userpref.blend file over, or where my themes from 2.67 have installed to, and so on.

Thanks for your help!

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When you first start blender 2.68 use the ‘Copy Previous Settings’ button on the splashscreen.
If you save a new startup file or save your current user settings this option will not be available

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Ah! Perfect!

Of course I would scour the readme and wiki but skip the splash screen. :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks man!