Are personal Compile Formats, Project Templates and Themes retained after reinstalling?

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I can’t find a definitive answer to this question: Are personal Compile Formats and Project Templates retained after reinstalling?
Is the Application Support folder containing these items removed and replaced on reinstall, or retained so the new install can find them and we can use them again?

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As a Mac-user, I would say it depends on whether you remove the previous version of Scrivener before re-installing and whether you use an application to do it which removes all supporting files. If you just drag the previous version to the trash, depending on your set-up, you might get asked if you want all the supporting files moved to trash too—if you have App Cleaner & Uninstaller installed, for instance, that happens, but without such an app the support files are left alone.

But I don’t know what happens with Windows, though when I used to install it through Crossover, it came with an Uninstaller, which I guess would remove the support files.

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Mark

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I think they are, but agree with Antoni about application support folder .i would copy that and save in case issues. I don’t remember losing compile formats on reinstall, but do lose any custom name lists you have added to the name generator in the windows version. I keep a folder of scrivener customizations with themes, preferences, layouts, background images and tiles, compile formats, and name lists to be safe.

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Absolutely agree. I have preferences, layouts (not that I’ve created many), compile formats and my personal project templates backed up to other locations. Don’t use name lists or themes, so I don’t have anything like that that I need to worry about.

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Mark

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On a “routine” reinstall, such as happens with an updated version, those files should be retained. On a “clean” reinstall, where you’ve deliberately removed the support files, no, they wouldn’t be.

Note that it’s also possible to save a project-specific Compile Format. Those have the disadvantage of being inaccessible to other projects. The advantage is that they’re stored in the project package. They’ll travel wherever the project does, and are unaffected by changes to the Scrivener-wide support folder.

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Good point about project templates too. I keep my custom stuff on a cloud folder to be available to any machine I work on.

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