Post #5559: Due to some bad experiences updating Blender, I reconfigure my entire setup ever
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- Author: taa1
- Date: 2025-08-06 09:25:45
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question - Quality Score: 8/10
- Reply to: post_05555
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addon-settings intermediate unsolved
⚙️ Related PME Features
- Menu Settings Import/Export
- Python Scripting
- Addon Configuration
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Due to some bad experiences updating Blender, I reconfigure my entire setup every time I update Blender (portable). I have created a script which makes many changes and configures 50+ addons in under a minute. I have noticed that some addons create external preferences.py or .json files that they automatically load if placed within their corresponding addon folders which makes restoring settings convenient. PME, which is one of my essential addons, didn’t seem to do that. The extra few clicks, searching for PME and then finding the exported settings file add up when doing this for a bunch of addons, so I was hoping there happened to be some way to do this for PME already.
I’d also be happy with being able to import the settings via python using a relative path, but have not been able to find a way of doing this. In other words, placing the PME_menu_settings file inside Blender_4.x/portable/addon_settings folder and then adding a line to my setup script that would automate pressing the import menus button and find the file relatively e.g. //portable\addon_settings\PME_menu_settings.
If there is a way of doing this, it would be great.
Thank you very much for making this awesome addon even better and more functional as well as helping so many people with it. I’ve read a lot of your posts here and can see how 1000s of people are able to suffer much less in Blender due to your support and contributions to this project.
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