{"id":9874,"date":"2023-06-20T14:47:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=9874"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:38:23","slug":"relocate-the-12build-preferences","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/knowledge-base\/relocate-the-12build-preferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Relocate the 12-Build preferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Close all 12-Build projects.<\/li>\n<li>Create a folder on the <em>Desktop<\/em> or in <em>Documents<\/em> folder. Name it \u2018<em>12Build_prefs<\/em>\u2018.<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>C:\\Program Files (x86)\\BuildSoft\\12Build <\/strong>and look for the file <em>12Build.ini\u00a0 <\/em>Copy this file to your desktop.<\/li>\n<li>Open the file with Notepad and change the <strong>Dir<\/strong> location to\n<pre>[Path pref]\nDir=C:\\Users\\**YourUsername**\\Documents\\12Build_prefs\\<\/pre>\n<p>(Replace Documents by Desktop, if you have chosen Desktop)<\/li>\n<li>Save this file<\/li>\n<li>Copy this file and paste it to 2 locations: the installation folder and AppData folder\n<ul>\n<li><em>Installation folder<\/em>: <strong>C:\\Program Files (x86)\\BuildSoft\\12Build<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>App data folder<\/em>: Go to\u00a0<strong>C:\\Users\\**YourUsername**\\AppData\\Local\\VirtualStore\\Program Files (x86)\\BuildSoft\\12Build<\/strong><br \/>\nNote: the folder \u2018AppData\u2019 is a hidden folder. You can show the hidden folders in the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/14201\/windows-show-hidden-files\">folder options<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Copy the contents of the Appdata folder to the <em>12Build_prefs<\/em> folder<\/li>\n<li>Launch 12-Build. 12-Build should start in a normal way.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close all 12-Build projects. Create a folder on the Desktop or in Documents folder. Name it \u201812Build_prefs\u2018. Go to C:\\Program Files (x86)\\BuildSoft\\12Build and look for the file 12Build.ini\u00a0 Copy this file to your desktop. Open the file with Notepad and change the Dir location to [Path pref] Dir=C:\\Users\\**YourUsername**\\Documents\\12Build_prefs\\ (Replace Documents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[1235],"ht-kb-tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/9874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/9874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15272,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/9874\/revisions\/15272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=9874"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=9874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}