# 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")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

### 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")

</div>

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):
>
> 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.

---

_[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/where-are-mac-preferences-stored-named/52448)._