# Create configuration to share with other users
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-configuration-to-share-with-other-users/56634
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [March 8, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-configuration-to-share-with-other-users/56634 "2022-03-08T19:54:08Z")
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### Author:  [@Juke](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Juke)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-configuration-to-share-with-other-users/56634/1 "2022-03-08T19:54:08Z")
Under the " Exporting and importing preferences settings" section, I am looking to create an even more generic configuration after importing the plist from another user. Wouldn't you also want to delete the following settings?
- ActionFormatTagFieldHistory
- ActionImportTagFieldsFormatHistory
- ActionReplaceOriginalHistory
- ActionReplaceReplaceHistory
- LastOpenDirectory
- LastOpenURLs
others???
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-configuration-to-share-with-other-users/56634/2 "2022-03-08T21:13:42Z")
It depends in what you'd like to preserve from the original configuration. Which areas of Mp3tag do you want to share?
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### Author:  [@Juke](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Juke)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-configuration-to-share-with-other-users/56634/3 "2022-03-08T21:54:48Z")
Our radio station uses Mp3tag to prepare files for incorporation into our music library. We expect all of the files to be tagged with data gathered from liner notes. Our volunteers rip a CD and then manually fill in the requisite info which include custom fields: composer, producer, copyright, etc. I have setup my Mp3tag to include all of these tags and configured my tag panel to display them all.
I want to give a volunteer DJ my configuration to import into an out-of-the box Mp3tag install on their personal machine. There is no need to include historical data from my plist.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2022, 9:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-configuration-to-share-with-other-users/56634/4 "2022-03-09T09:51:28Z")
I'd then create a minimal configuration plist file from your configuration to be shared with your colleagues.
1. Export your current settings to **`Mp3tagSettings-Backup.plist`** which is your backup
`defaults export app.mp3tag.Mp3tag ~/Desktop/Mp3tagSettings-Backup.plist`
1. Export a second copy **`Mp3tagSettings-Share.plist`** that will become the configuration to be shared with your colleagues
`defaults export app.mp3tag.Mp3tag ~/Desktop/Mp3tagSettings-Share.plist`
1. Remove all unwanted settings from **`Mp3tagSettings-Share.plist`**. For this, I'd recommend using [BBEdit](https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html), which allows for editing binary plist files.
In your case, I'd just keep:
- Columns
- FieldMappings
- TagPanelFields
If you'd also work with MP3 files (from previous conversations I know that you use FLAC only), I'd also include
- TagID3v2Type
- TagTypeMP3Remove
- TagTypeMP3Write
You can test it by deleting your configuration (because you have a backup) and import using
```nohighlight
defaults delete app.mp3tag.Mp3tag
defaults import app.mp3tag.Mp3tag ~/Desktop/Mp3tagSettings-Share.plist
```
Please make sure to definitely not include `License` for obvious reasons.
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### Author:  [@Juke](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Juke)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-configuration-to-share-with-other-users/56634/5 "2022-03-09T13:30:11Z")
Thank you Florian. I appreciate the suggestions. I use the Mac utility PlistBuddy to view and modify a plist. It looks like the macOS designers don't store the License in the plist - at least not using that word.
```auto
defaults export app.mp3tag.Mp3tag Mp3tag.plist
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c Print Mp3tag.plist
```
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-configuration-to-share-with-other-users/56634/6 "2022-03-09T16:51:59Z")
You're probably using a version from the Mac App Store, which doesn't have the license in the settings and uses the store receipt machinery to validate the install.
Thanks for the pointer to PlistBuddy, it's quite versatile!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-configuration-to-share-with-other-users/56634/7 "2022-04-08T16:52:04Z")
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