What's new in Preference Manager 4.5.4
Nov 1, 2023
- Removed telemetry from the app
- Fixed an issue that could cause a "Background Items Added" alert to appear multiple times
- Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Preference Manager 4.5.3 (Apr 5, 2022)
- Improved compatibility with Adobe Creative Cloud 2022
New in Preference Manager 4.5.2 (Jun 16, 2021)
New in Preference Manager 4.5.1 (May 7, 2021)
- Minor bug fixes and stability improvements
New in Preference Manager 4.5 (Feb 17, 2021)
- Native support for M1 Macs
- Compatibility with macOS 11.0 Big Sur
- Improved visual quality of app icons
- Various fixes and code modernizations
New in Preference Manager 4.4.4 (Oct 16, 2019)
- Compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina
- Dark Mode support
- Fixed an issue where enabling a password at startup couldn't be disabled again
- Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Preference Manager 4.4.3 (Mar 12, 2019)
- Support for backing up and restoring FCPX workspaces
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Preference Manager 4.4.2 (Mar 6, 2018)
- Replaced Growl with native Notification Center alerts
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Preference Manager 4.4.1 (May 9, 2017)
- Disabled preference locking for certain apps due to incompatibility with newer versions of macOS
- Fixed several issues with how unlockable preferences are displayed in the Lock pane
- General bug fixes and performance improvements
New in Preference Manager 4.4 (Oct 21, 2016)
- Preference Manager now requires OS X 10.8 or higher
- Kollaborate support removed (for now)
- Support for backing up FCPX metadata definitions
- Improved support for Adobe Premiere workspaces
- Fixed an issue that could cause a hang when managing auto backups
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 4.3.2 (Oct 12, 2015)
- Improved Premiere Pro support
New in Preference Manager 4.3.1 (Aug 31, 2015)
- Improved compatibility with FCPX
New in Preference Manager 4.3 (Aug 18, 2015)
- Important: due to changes to Avid Media Composer support, backups of Media Composer preferences will need to be recreated with this version.
- Preference Manager is now 64-bit only
- Improved compatibility with Adobe Prelude and Media Encoder
- Improved support for Avid Media Composer sub-users
- Improved compatibility with OS X 10.10
- Various other fixes and tweaks
New in Preference Manager 4.2.8 (Jun 18, 2015)
- Support for Adobe Creative Cloud 2015
- Added auto-detection of future Adobe cloud updates
- Various other bug fixes and tweaks
New in Preference Manager 4.2.7 (Apr 3, 2015)
- Improved compatibility with OS X's preference caching mechanism
- Minor tweaks to Kollaborate integration
- Various other bug fixes and tweaks
New in Preference Manager 4.2.6 (Feb 10, 2015)
New in Preference Manager 4.2.5 (Nov 21, 2014)
- Fixed an issue that could cause certain settings not to be respected when backing up
- Various other tweaks
New in Preference Manager 4.2.4 (Nov 12, 2014)
- Improved Adobe CC 2014.1 compatibility
New in Preference Manager 4.2.3 (Oct 16, 2014)
New in Preference Manager 4.2.2 (Sep 17, 2014)
- Default Adobe After Effects scripts are no longer backed up
- OS X 10.9.5 compatibility
New in Preference Manager 4.2.1 (Aug 1, 2014)
- Improved support for sharing Adobe profiles with other users and computers
New in Preference Manager 4.2 (Jun 26, 2014)
- Support for Adobe Creative Cloud 2014
- Support for Lightworks beta
- Support for the new Compressor settings and destination format
- ByHost temporary preferences are now trashed
- Various bug fixes and tweaks
New in Preference Manager 4.1.5 (Apr 25, 2014)
- Improved compatibility with network home folders
New in Preference Manager 4.1.4 (Mar 1, 2014)
- Improved compatibility with OS X 10.9
- Fixed an issue where Software Update may not work when launched manually
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 4.1.3 (Jan 22, 2014)
- Improved compatibility with Adobe Creative Cloud 7.2
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 4.1.2 (Dec 14, 2013)
- Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate versions of Adobe Creative Suite / Cloud to be shown in the list
New in Preference Manager 4.1.1 (Oct 17, 2013)
- Fixed an issue that could cause apps that weren't running to be launched when using the Close and Reopen option
New in Preference Manager 4.1 (Oct 11, 2013)
- Logic Pro X support
- OS X 10.9 support
- Support for backing up and trashing Adobe common preferences
- Various bug fixes and tweaks
New in Preference Manager 4.0.1 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Fixed an issue that couple prevent Compressor 4 settings being restored
New in Preference Manager 4.0 (Jul 11, 2013)
- Support for Adobe Audition, Encore, Media Encoder and Prelude
- Apps are now organized into suites where appropriate (e.g. Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite)
- Adobe apps are separated by version, so for example you can choose to only backup and restore prefs for Premiere CS 5.5 and leave other versions alone
- Pro Tools support
- Backup and restore preferences to the cloud with Kollaborate
- Support for trashing temp plists
- Support for backing up FCPX color presets and user destinations
- Support for backing up After Effects scripts
- Project handling now works for Adobe and Pro Tools project types
- Various other tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.2.5 (Jan 3, 2013)
- Improved stability when restoring a backup
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.2.4 (Dec 7, 2012)
- Improved compatibility with network home folders
- Fixed a crash that could occur if Final Cut Pro took too long to launch
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.2.3 (Oct 12, 2012)
- Support for backing up Premiere Pro audio channel layouts
- Added a function to relink FCP 7 preferences back to Motion 4 to prevent an error at startup if Motion 5 is installed
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.2.2 (Jul 14, 2012)
- OS X 10.8 support
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.2.1 (Jun 13, 2012)
- Fixed an issue that could cause the app to hang
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.2 (May 24, 2012)
- Support for Avid Symphony
- Support for backing up Premiere Pro keyboard layouts
- Improved compatibility with multi-user environments
- Fixed several crashes
- Improved OS X 10.8 Gatekeeper compatibility
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.1.3 (May 10, 2012)
- Support for Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and After Effects CS6
- Fixed a crash that could occur when closing an application
- Fixed a crash that could occur when automatically launching an FCP project
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.1.2 (Apr 6, 2012)
- Fixed a crash that could occur when automatically launching an FCP project
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.1.1 (Feb 23, 2012)
- OS X 10.8 Gatekeeper compatibility
- Fixed an issue where it could present an error dialog when automatically launching Final Cut Pro
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.1.0 (Nov 30, 2011)
- Support for Adobe After Effects preferences and workspaces
- Compatibility with Avid Media Composer 6
- Preferences can now be trashed for individual Avid Media Composer users
- Improved the speed of trashing and restoring preferences
- Fixed several stability issues
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.0.6 (Oct 26, 2011)
- Support for backing up Premiere Pro sequence presets, styles and column settings
- Fixed a crash when performing a backup
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.0.5 (Oct 12, 2011)
- Support for the Final Cut Pro X trial
- Added an option to replace all files in a backup with the current versions on disk
- Fixed a crash when performing a backup
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.0.4 (Sep 27, 2011)
- Fixed a crash when opening a backup from Finder
- Added an option to zip and email a backup
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 3.0.3 (Aug 19, 2011)
- Linked projects can be added, viewed and removed by ctrl-clicking a backup.
- Fixed several issues when editing and renaming backups.
New in Preference Manager 3.0.2 (Aug 2, 2011)
- Added an option to automatically restore the default backup when trashing preferences
- Support for lockfiles in Lion
- Fixed an issue that could prevent backups being restored when opening a linked project
- Fixed a crash after editing a backup
New in Preference Manager 3.0.1 (Jul 15, 2011)
- Fixed an issue that could prevent Preference Manager restoring files in a linked backup if Final Cut Pro was already running
New in Preference Manager 3.0 (Jul 5, 2011)
- Complete 64-bit rewrite
- User interface overhaul
- Support for Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro for Mac
- You can now choose which files you wish to restore from a backup
- Auto backups are saved before major operations such as trashing and can also be scheduled to automatically backup on a daily or weekly basis
- Default backups allow you to specify a backup that is known to be good. This will then be restored automatically after a QuickFix to help you get back up and running quickly
- An unlimited number of Final Cut Pro projects can now be linked to a backup
- Hotkey support (if FCS Maintenance Pack or Pro Maintenance Tools is installed)
- OS X 10.7 Lion support
New in Preference Manager 2.1.6 (Jun 11, 2011)
- Improved compatibility with other Digital Rebellion products
- Fixed several issues where preferences would not trash due to incorrect permissions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 2.1.4 (Jan 31, 2011)
- Various UI and icon tweaks
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 2.1.3 (Jan 3, 2011)
- Fixed an issue that could cause tasks that require an admin password to fail if run more than once
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 2.1.2 (Oct 26, 2010)
- Fixed an issue where button bars and keyboard layouts would not be restored if the destination folder was locked or permissions were incorrect
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 2.1.1 (Aug 7, 2010)
- Fixed an issue where Preference Manager would sometimes refuse to launch
- Fixed a crash when selecting items in the Advanced pane
- Improved compatibility with network user accounts
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 2.0.9 (Jun 30, 2010)
- Tiger support removed
- Fixed a crash when selecting items in the Advanced pane
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 2.0.7 (Jun 13, 2010)
- Fixed an incompatibility with the Open in Editor function of Final Cut Pro
- Improved compatibility with FCS Maintenance Pack
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Preference Manager 2.0.6 (Apr 15, 2010)
- User interface improvements.
New in Preference Manager 2.0.5 (Feb 10, 2010)
- New feature: Preference Manager can now automatically launch the Final Cut Pro System Settings dialog when a new project is opened.
- User interface improvements.
- Improved compatibility with FCS Maintenance Pack.
- Bug fixes.
New in Preference Manager 2.0.4 (Sep 10, 2009)
- Feature: Final Cut Express support.
- Improvement: Snow Leopard compatibility.
- Improvement: Improved compatibility with FCS Maintenance Pack.
New in Preference Manager 2.0.3 (Jun 2, 2009)
- Improvement: Backups can now be edited.
- Improvement: Import Backup menu item adds a backup to the library without automatically restoring it.
- Improvement: Project filenames are now listed below the backup name for convenience.
- Feature: Support for Boris text plugin preferences.
- Bug Fix: Various minor bug fixes.
New in Preference Manager 2.0.2 (May 17, 2009)
- Improvement: Better support for prior versions of FCP.
- Improvement: New icons to differentiate project-linked backups.
- Improvement: Selections in the Advanced dialog are now remembered when the application is closed.
- Feature: Support for custom Compressor settings and destinations.
New in Preference Manager 2.0.1 (Apr 27, 2009)
- Bug fix: Tiger support now added.
- Improvement: Artwork and icon improvements.
- Improvement: Converts old PMB files to the new PMB2 format.
- Improvement: Project-linked backups now display the icon of the relevant application for easy identification.
New in Preference Manager 1.0.7 (Nov 3, 2008)
- Feature: Added user manual.
- Tweak: Cleaned up the icon a little.
- Tweak: Upgraded the Sparkle update framework.
New in Preference Manager 1.0.6 (Oct 20, 2008)
- Tweak: UI simplifications and various optimizations.
- Tweak: Shortcut keys supported on Restore dialog.
- Tweak: Select All buttons now alternatively function as Select None.
- Tweak: Items you select are remembered when you relaunch the application.
- Feature: Backups can now be renamed.
New in Preference Manager 1.0.5 (Aug 11, 2008)
- Feature: Preferences can now be locked to prevent modification by the user or application.
- Feature: Trashed preferences can now be restored from the Trash by going to File > Restore Trashed Preferences.
New in Preference Manager 1.0.4 (Apr 14, 2008)
- Feature: Backups are now stored in compressed files with the extension .PMB. These files can be moved to another machine to easily copy across preferences, button bars, keyboard layouts, etc just by double-clicking the file.
- Important: Your old backups will need to be converted to work with the new version. Go to File > Convert Backups to New Format, select the folders in your backup folder (default is ~/Library/Application Support/Digital Rebellion/Preference Manager/Backups) and they will automatically be converted.
- Tweak: Minor icon tweaks.
New in Preference Manager 1.0.3 (Apr 12, 2008)
- Bug fix: Fixed the annoying "The volume 'Digital Rebellion' could not be found" message that some users were having.
New in Preference Manager 1.0.2 (Apr 2, 2008)
- Bug fix: A check is now performed for unmounted external volumes. If you set your backup location to an external disk and unmount it, the app will copy files to the default location until you plug it back in.
- Feature: Added New Folder button to Browse dialog.
- Feature: Now backs up FCP button bars, keyboard layouts, column layouts, window layouts, track layouts, custom settings and user plugins.
New in Preference Manager 1.0.1 (Mar 24, 2008)
- Bug fix: The help link is now correct.
- Feature: You can now set a custom backup location (in Preferences). This feature was highly requested.
- Feature: If a backup exists, you now have the option of overwriting it.
- Feature: There is now a "Show in Finder" button in the Restore dialog.