Moving custom 'produce' profiles from PD14 to PD15

Ed71

Senior Member Location: Dorset, United Kingdom Joined: May 17, 2008 14:32 Messages: 207 Offline

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Sep 20, 2016 17:54

I had a number of custom profiles set up in PD14; PD15 currently shows no custom profiles; is there an easy way to import them - I believe there is a file called 'profile.ini' which may contain this information but I don't know where that is located; once located is it just a simple case of copying it into the equivilent location in PD15?

Any help appreciated! Director Suite 365
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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Sep 20, 2016 18:24

Hi Ed71 -

You'll find that Profile.ini at C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\14.0

... and you're right - all you need to do is copy it and paste in into C:\UserName\Tony\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\15.0 to overwrite the existing Profile.ini

Then your custom profiles will be available in both PDR14 & 15.

Cheers - Tony
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Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Sep 21, 2016 04:39

I suggest you make a custom profile in PDR15 first before pasting in the text data of the PDR14 profiles.

I have found in the past (in a previous PDR) simply pasting the PDR14 Profile.ini file into 15 might not work so well.

The Profile.ini is auto generated when you create a new custom profile.

I have also had issues when moving profiles across (using copy & paste) that worked fine in previous PowerDirectors (created for forum editors) but when moved to the newer PowerDirector, caused PDR to crash.

Just make sure the profile works ok and be prepared to deal with anything unusual.
Dafydd

Edit, minor change.

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Ed71

Senior Member Location: Dorset, United Kingdom Joined: May 17, 2008 14:32 Messages: 207 Offline

Sep 21, 2016 14:52

Excellent, many thanks Tony & Dafydd! Worked straight away Director Suite 365
AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250gb (OS)
Seagate 2TB SATA-III Hybrid 7200RPM Hard Drive (Data)
Toshiba 4TB SATA-III Hard drive (Archive)
24GB Memory
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2gb
Microsoft® Windows 10 (64-bit)

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Sep 22, 2016 02:25

Dafydd,

Before posting, I tested the posted procedure a few times to make sure there were no potential issues.

Of course, creating backup files is wise. Appreciate that.

Cheers - Tony
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