{"id":2269,"date":"2018-01-17T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T10:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildsoftsupport.com\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2269"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:39:06","slug":"how-to-reset-the-1-2-build-preferences","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/knowledge-base\/how-to-reset-the-1-2-build-preferences\/","title":{"rendered":"How to reset the 12-Build preferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About the Preferences<\/h2>\n<p>\u2018<strong>Preferences\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>are settings that are user dependant, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Units and decimals<\/li>\n<li>The language<\/li>\n<li>Colors<\/li>\n<li>\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the first startup of 12-Build, 12-Build takes the default values (stored in the Program Files). When you work with 12-Build, you will customize these settings along the way.<\/p>\n<h2>Workflow to reset the preferences<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Close all 1\u00b72\u00b7Build projects.<\/li>\n<li>Go to\u00a0<strong>C:\\Users\\**YourUsername**\\AppData\\Local\\VirtualStore\\Program Files (x86)\\BuildSoft\\1 2 Build.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nThe folder &#8220;AppData&#8221; is a hidden folder. IYou can show the hidden folders using the menu &#8220;View &gt; View &gt; Show hidden items&#8221;.<br \/>\nIf you see the folder &#8220;AppData&#8221; now, skip step 3 and go to step 4.<br \/>\nIf you still don&#8217;t see the folder &#8220;AppData&#8221; now, go to step 3.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15264\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PRefs12Build1b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1464\" height=\"735\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>C:\\Program Files (x86)\\BuildSoft\\12Build<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sort the content of this folder by date.<br \/>\nThe preferences are stored in the same folder as the installation files. You can detect the preference files by sorting the folder by date. The preferences always have a more recent date. While the installation files have older dates. This 1\u00b72\u00b7Build is from 2021. Anything more recent than 2021 is a preference file, thus all files above the line are preference files.<br \/>\nSelect all preference files and delete them. Then, skip step 4 and go to step 5.<strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15265\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PRefs12Build2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1114\" height=\"778\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Delete the content of this folder.<\/li>\n<li>Restart 12-Build.<br \/>\nIf do did the procedure correctly, 12-Build will ask you the language.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13845 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/12BuildLanguage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"229\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Preferences \u2018Preferences\u2019\u00a0are settings that are user dependant, for example: Units and decimals The language Colors \u2026 At the first startup of 12-Build, 12-Build takes the default values (stored in the Program Files). When you work with 12-Build, you will customize these settings along the way. Workflow to reset&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[1235],"ht-kb-tag":[558,303,617,557,729,730],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15273,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2269\/revisions\/15273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}