# Where are Mac preferences stored/named?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-are-mac-preferences-stored-named/52448>\
**Category:** Mac\
**Created:** [March 20, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-are-mac-preferences-stored-named/52448 "2021-03-20T14:19:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![charibancho](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@charibancho](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/charibancho)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-are-mac-preferences-stored-named/52448/1 "2021-03-20T14:19:05Z")

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I've made a set of re-tagging groups, overall setup etc on my desktop that I would like to copy over to be able to use on my laptop when necessary. I've looked for an "mp3tag" preference file as well as anything else I could imagine in both the main and user libraries but can't find one. Is the preference file stored in user\>library\>prefs or is it somewhere else? If it is stored there, can anyone tell me what it's called?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-are-mac-preferences-stored-named/52448/2 "2021-03-20T14:27:02Z")

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See the [FAQs for Mac](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/frequently-asked-questions/51958) on how to get stuff from Windows:

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**Author:** ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-are-mac-preferences-stored-named/52448/3 "2021-03-20T14:35:46Z")

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Please see this post on copying settings from one Mac to another:

> [@Export/Import Mac\<-\>Mac](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-import-mac-mac/52237/2):
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> Hi and welcome! First of all, thanks for your support! It's much appreciated slight_smile Exporting the settings and importing on another Mac (or the same) is possible via the defaults command in Terminal.app. To export the settings you'd use defaults export app.mp3tag.Mp3tag ~/Desktop/Mp3tagSettings.plist and to import you'd use defaults import app.mp3tag.Mp3tag ~/Desktop/Mp3tagSettings.plist defaults delete app.mp3tag.Mp3tag SecurityScopedBookmarks The last command is necessary to rem…

As a background information: settings for apps from the Mac App Store are stored in  
`~/Library/Containers/`  
where you have a sandboxed environment for all the different special folders.

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**Author:** ![charibancho](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@charibancho](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/charibancho)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-are-mac-preferences-stored-named/52448/4 "2021-03-21T03:14:42Z")

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Beautiful, thank you!

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-are-mac-preferences-stored-named/52448/5 "2021-04-20T03:15:11Z")

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