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VS on Windows, of course, has an Export / Import feature for your Settings, so they can be easily re-installed on new machines or shared with other team members.

Does VS for Mac have the same functionality? I can't find it.

As an alternative, where or what file are my Preference changes saved to? I searched in my $HOME/Library folders, but couldn't find anything obviously relevant.

I'm using VS for Mac 8.4.1.

This question was originally asked here by Scott Cadillac. This post got an interesting response by Matt Ward about were the preferences are stored: link

The accepted answer shows here the custom keybindings are stored

Thiago Hufnagel
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    This question seems to be heavily based on, if not copied outright from, [this one on the VS Developer Community forums](https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/182137/how-to-export-vs-mac-preferences.html). If you're looking for an updated answer, that's fine, but please be sure to [give credit](https://stackoverflow.com/help/referencing) to the person who originally wrote the question, as you should do when you borrow *anyone's* work. If by some chance you haven't already seen that, perhaps the answers there will be useful to you. – Cody Gray - on strike Jan 16 '20 at 18:14

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Take a look at /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/VisualStudio

Preference files in file system

It seems that Visual Studio uses the major versions like 7.0 and 8.0 to store the settings like shown in the screenshot. Minor versions like 8.2, 8.3 etc. only contain json files for the team memberships.

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