# old version Exported Preset help

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/old-version-exported-preset-help/45382>\
**Category:** Configuration Help & General Discussion\
**Tags:** touch-bar\
**Created:** [October 9, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/old-version-exported-preset-help/45382 "2025-10-09T19:12:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Chance\_Dominguez](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/chance_dominguez/32/41642_2.png) [@Chance\_Dominguez](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Chance_Dominguez)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/old-version-exported-preset-help/45382/1 "2025-10-09T19:12:24Z")

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> hello, i have a exported preset from a Mac i had to replace.. i found the document. but it didnt save in a .bttpreset format. the preset is basically keystrokes for a Audio Workstation DAW. Combinations of keystroke’s i didnt want to remember.
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> Is there a way i can convert this script looking text to be able to import onto my new mac? would hate to have to rebuild this preset again.
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> i cant upload the file because the file type says its just a document. when i change the extention to “.bttpreset”, btt wont read it for import. was hoping to be able to convert this somehow or something.. if possible
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> heres the Text the document shows when opened

```auto
bookmark88`:ï∂üûl≈AåApplicationsTouchbar App Presets$¥9Œ=P`A≈lûÑôÆ£	file:///Macintosh HDêÇñÁAƒ‚ªn$A9B5FB5D-38CA-43B3-9FDC-20C34ED89108ÅÔÔ/0dnibrdlfÃ˛ˇˇˇ@pê@Ä H ∏ » ¸ ‹ Ï (0 ∞–∞–$"T

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/old-version-exported-preset-help/45382/2 "2025-10-09T23:47:06Z")

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could you send that to [andreas@folivora.ai](mailto:andreas@folivora.ai)? It doesn't look like BTT's preset format, but could maybe be a database file. How old was the version you exported this from?

//edit: if this is the whole content of the file - this is not the actual file but some sort of link to it

//seems to bd a finder alias: [Bookmarks, a type of Alias: their access and use – The Eclectic Light Company](https://eclecticlight.co/2020/05/21/bookmarks-a-type-of-alias-their-access-and-use/)  
maybe the original file is still somewhere in your backup?

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**Author:** ![Chance\_Dominguez](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/chance_dominguez/32/41642_2.png) [@Chance\_Dominguez](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Chance_Dominguez)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/old-version-exported-preset-help/45382/3 "2025-10-09T23:50:41Z")

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it was from 2021, i cant remeber the version but i sware i just found the old log since i installed the exact old version i made it on and then i had to update when i opened BTT

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**Author:** ![Chance\_Dominguez](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/chance_dominguez/32/41642_2.png) [@Chance\_Dominguez](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Chance_Dominguez)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/old-version-exported-preset-help/45382/4 "2025-10-09T23:51:54Z")

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Unfortunately it is the entire content of the file. i guess that means ill be remaking it. oh well, at least now i can share it to the local form to find for myself again if i ever need it