We keep a test data version of our files to go & play in. We update the files maybe once a week. We keep the screen colour orange & our live working copy green. When we copy over the data into test is there an easy way to change the colour to orange again by copying just the ini files? We would prefer that users not be able to customize their own screens. Is there a togle to turn off this option?

Hi Bruce,

The screen colour is defined in User Preferences, on the Appearance tab. If you don't want users to have any of their own User Preference settings in the 'test data' area, then you can sign into Adagio and the 'test data' as SYS, open User Preferences and set the screen background colour, and finally click the 'Set All Users' button. This pushes all the SYS user preferences to any other user of the 'test' data.

It is conceivable to restore the 'test data' files that store the background colour setting, but that would also copy over all other settings stored in these data files (not just the colours).

Bruce:

I haven't tested this but this might work;

Most of the User Preferences are stored in a set of files that start with the prefix SD. When deleting the old test data don't delete the SD* files. When copying the live data to the test folder don't including the SD* files. This should leave the test User Preferences unchanged (orange back ground color intact).

As this experiement is only being done on your test data, if it doesn't work no harm has been done. If this doesn't work then another option would be to determine which file contains the color selection and try exclusing that file from being overwritten in the same manner (sorry I don't know where the selected color is stored off the top of my head).