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Where are Keywords, Favourites etc. stored?

Are they stored in the app, the Library or the preferences? I think it is probably the Library?


What about custom keyboard shortcuts?


Will they be lost if preferences are deleted?

Posted on Jun 26, 2020 7:15 AM

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Posted on Jun 26, 2020 8:13 AM

Keywords and Favorites are stored in Libraries.

Keyword shortcuts (not to confuse with keyboard shortcuts - see below) are stored in the preferences.

Assignment of keyword shortcuts Control-1, ..., Control-0 is saved in the preferences:


I made two scripts a few years ago that allowed one to save those shortcuts and reload them.

I haven't tested them on the current version.




Resetting preferences does NOT delete custom keyboard shortcuts

They reside in

~/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro/Command Sets



Also: Workspaces live in


~/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro/Workspaces


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Jun 26, 2020 8:13 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

Keywords and Favorites are stored in Libraries.

Keyword shortcuts (not to confuse with keyboard shortcuts - see below) are stored in the preferences.

Assignment of keyword shortcuts Control-1, ..., Control-0 is saved in the preferences:


I made two scripts a few years ago that allowed one to save those shortcuts and reload them.

I haven't tested them on the current version.




Resetting preferences does NOT delete custom keyboard shortcuts

They reside in

~/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro/Command Sets



Also: Workspaces live in


~/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro/Workspaces


Jun 26, 2020 9:47 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

With a little care, one may be able to just "transplant" the keywords from the old plist file to the new.

These are XML files.

One can open them in a text editor like BBEdit, search for FFKeywordGroups and copy the relevant part - beware that it is easy to this the wrong way and cause the file to be malformed.

I had these two keywords just for testing:



With FCP X closed, I was able to locate that section in the new preferences:



and pasted over the ones from the other file.

Started FCP X again and it worked nicely.

Jun 26, 2020 9:24 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

Apparently, yes.


One other thing: at least for me, when I delete preferences, I get a file on my desktop, like this:


VideoAppDiagnostics-FinalCut-2020-06-26-154529.tar.gz


It contains, among other things, a copy of the deleted preferences.

Now it seems that not everyone will get such a file. I can't say if I did something for this to happen, I certainly don't remember doing anything.




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