Troubles with copying configuration from Mac to Windows 10

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Troubles with copying configuration from Mac to Windows 10

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TVP 11.5.1
I work on Windows temporarily. I wanted TVPaint to be exactly as on my Mac. So I have copied the default configuration folder from Mac to Windows 10. When I turn on TVPaint - several problems accur:
1. There is no File Menu! And on Windows version there is also no preference to use the TVPaint menu, like there is on Mac - so nothing in the Preferences could change this. I tried to play around with the configuration files - tried copying folder by folder, but apparently the setting is inside the config.ini file. So finally I just edited the config.ini file and manually changed the usetvpaintmenu line to 1 instead of 0. And voila - now I have a working menu. I couldn't find anything in the file that represents the Windows File menu, but TVPaint menu is good too. However I think it's some kind of an overlook in the Preferences...
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2. A problem that occurred also on Mac, but on Windows it became destructive: ALL my custom brushes are broken now (not just a few that happened on Mac). A relevant thread was opened here: https://www.tvpaint.com/forum/viewtopic ... 27#p124715 , but now on Windows this became more serious, so I will repeat it in this thread. It seems purely 11.5.1 problem, since copying configuration folders used to work well in previous versions (at least that's what I remember). Since ALL of my custom brushes don't work, I will need to export the Custom Panels one by one in the working version of TVP, then import them here. It is a lot of work, since I have tens of Custom Panels... One thing I noticed, is that when I click a broken custom brush tool for the first time, there is a new .ini file created in the CustomBrush folder, but there is no .dip file with that name (see screenshot)
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Re: Trouble copying configuration from Mac to Windows 10

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Hello Soom, it is possible to select the file explorer via the Interface menu indeed.
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Re: Trouble copying configuration from Mac to Windows 10

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Hi Dean
but I don't need the file requester to be tvpaint - I was talking about the whole top menu that disappeared - like in the screenshot.
but actually copying configurations soon manifested many more problems (I added a comment in the relevant thread: https://www.tvpaint.com/forum/viewtopic ... 27#p124715)
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Re: Trouble copying configuration from Mac to Windows 10

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Oh I thought that you had a secondary problem which was that the file requester was TVPaint's and not Windows explorer. I think we're going to need Xavier for this one :)
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Re: Trouble copying configuration from Mac to Windows 10

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Dean wrote: 16 Apr 2021, 14:21 Oh I thought that you had a secondary problem which was that the file requester was TVPaint's and not Windows explorer. I think we're going to need Xavier for this one :)
Poor Xavier is being bombarded by all those little nerdy stuff :cry: :/
I have updated the thread because there is a bigger problem all together with copying config files...
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