Patrick, thank you. I discovered something about what the file was named by searching further in the forum, and a little searching on my old and new systems revealed where the file was kept on my system. I made a slight change on each system to be sure I had the right files, and then I copied the entire contents of the Setup folder from the old to the new system. I probably got some things I do not really need, but I definitely got all my Grep Expressions! The location on the old system was where you said: Watson:Users:AllenW:Library:Application Support:BBEdit:Setup
The new system's file was *in an odd location, *but BBEdit is accessing it there so I'm sticking with it: Watson:Users:allen:Library:Containers:com.barebones.bbedit:Data:Library:Application Support:BBEdit:Setup On Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 10:43:40 AM UTC-8 Patrick Woolsey wrote: > On 1/26/24 at 2:20 PM, [email protected] (Allen Watson) wrote: > > [...] > >I want to retrieve my saved searches from the corrupt system. I > >know how to find them in the BBEdit/Setup menu, and I can > >double-click one at a time to see the content. But I have a lot > >of them. To switch back and forth for each one could take hours. > > > >Is there a single location on disk where the saved searches are > >stored? If so, where, and is it possible to simply copy that > >file from the old system > > > Per the "Setup" subsection of "BBEdit’s Supporting Folders" in > Chapter 2 of the included PDF manual (pages 38-39 of the current > edition), what you're looking for is: > > ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Setup/Grep Patterns.xml > > and this file is readily transferrable. > > [PS: This would also be an entirely acceptable support question. > :-) ] > > > Regards > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/> > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/eaa1b125-9cb7-4ab8-85ec-d5a65d3e112cn%40googlegroups.com.
