Where are Mac preferences stored/named?

[Florian]

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

Export/Import Mac<->Mac

Hi and welcome! First of all, thanks for your support! It's much appreciated 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.