Following advice from the question How to upgrade TeXLive 2009 to TeXLive 2010, I'm installing TeXLive 2011 (on Windows Vista) in a new directory. Overall, this seems fine, after copying my texmf-local tree and running mktexlsr, but all of my TeXWorks settings are reset to the default.
This includes both editor options (like editor font settings) and typesetting options (e.g. I added a menu item for glossary processing with makeindex)
Is there an easy but safe way of:
- Finding where they are?; and
- Merging them?; or
- Safely copying my (old) settings over the new ones?
- Altering my Windows file associations at the moment I'm ready for the definitive move from 2010 to 2011?
Best Answer
As Herbert said, there's a
.texliveYYYYfolder in your home directory.So for question 1 (where are the TeXworks files?), in my relatively untouched install, there's a
.texliveYYY\texmf-config\texworksfolder with the following:Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is B068-2864 Directory of C:\Users\me\.texlive2010\texmf-config\texworks 07/08/2011 11:10 AM . 07/08/2011 11:10 AM .. 07/08/2011 11:10 AM completion 07/08/2011 11:10 AM configuration 07/08/2011 11:10 AM dictionaries 07/08/2011 11:10 AM scripts 07/08/2011 11:10 AM translations 07/08/2011 11:10 AM TUG 07/22/2011 06:12 PM 1,277 TwFileVersions.db 1 File(s) 1,277 bytes Directory of C:\Users\me\.texlive2010\texmf-config\texworks\completion 07/08/2011 11:10 AM . 07/08/2011 11:10 AM .. 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 1,165 tw-basic.txt 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 1,903 tw-beamer.txt 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 53 tw-context.txt 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 20,182 tw-latex.txt 4 File(s) 23,303 bytes Directory of C:\Users\me\.texlive2010\texmf-config\texworks\configuration 07/08/2011 11:10 AM . 07/08/2011 11:10 AM .. 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 803 auto-indent-patterns.txt 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 215 delimiter-pairs.txt 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 377 smart-quotes-modes.txt 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 1,704 syntax-patterns.txt 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 1,208 tag-patterns.txt 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 1,590 texworks-config.txt 6 File(s) 5,897 bytes Directory of C:\Users\me\.texlive2010\texmf-config\texworks\dictionaries 07/08/2011 11:10 AM . 07/08/2011 11:10 AM .. 0 File(s) 0 bytes Directory of C:\Users\me\.texlive2010\texmf-config\texworks\scripts 07/08/2011 11:10 AM . 07/08/2011 11:10 AM .. 07/08/2011 11:10 AM Hooks 07/08/2011 11:10 AM LaTeX styles 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 278 launchPdf.js 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 392 makeBold.lua 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 379 makeBold.py 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 476 system.js 07/08/2011 11:10 AM Text transforms 4 File(s) 1,525 bytes Directory of C:\Users\me\.texlive2010\texmf-config\texworks\scripts\Hooks 07/08/2011 11:10 AM . 07/08/2011 11:10 AM .. 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 1,795 babelLanguage.js 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 4,446 latexErrors.js 2 File(s) 6,241 bytes Directory of C:\Users\me\.texlive2010\texmf-config\texworks\scripts\LaTeX styles 07/08/2011 11:10 AM . 07/08/2011 11:10 AM .. 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 825 toggleBold.js 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 827 toggleEmph.js 2 File(s) 1,652 bytes Directory of C:\Users\me\.texlive2010\texmf-config\texworks\scripts\Text transforms 07/08/2011 11:10 AM . 07/08/2011 11:10 AM .. 07/08/2011 11:10 AM 2,527 titlecase.js 1 File(s) 2,527 bytes Directory of C:\Users\me\.texlive2010\texmf-config\texworks\translations 07/08/2011 11:10 AM . 07/08/2011 11:10 AM .. 0 File(s) 0 bytes Directory of C:\Users\me\.texlive2010\texmf-config\texworks\TUG 07/08/2011 11:10 AM . 07/08/2011 11:10 AM .. 07/22/2011 06:12 PM 10,030 TeXworks.ini 1 File(s) 10,030 bytes Total Files Listed: 21 File(s) 52,452 bytes 29 Dir(s) 376,468,918,272 bytes freeFor questions 2-3 (how to merge or use all of the old settings?), I'd backup the settings from both the older version and 2011, and then check them for differences, or possibly just overwrite the new files with the old contents. An editor like Notepad++ can make the file comparison simpler, if you don't already have better tools for that.
For question 4 (how to set file associations?), I think TeX Live Manager will handle that. Start the new version's tlmgr, and go to "Options / General". There's a "Change file associations" entry there that can be set to none, new, or all.