"long, long time since i had any experience with vegas, but, check in task manager that vegas isn't already running in the background - it's a long shot...

i've got my old 12 reg somewhere if it'll help out... pm me as i don't check in here anymore."

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It's late, I'm still using old system right now, so can't check** if VP is running in background (I don't recall that it ever has, at least not the main Vegas .exe). So I'll check tomorrow at some point.

(**I have to swap out monitors, mouse/keyboard, APC battery backup USB connection and move 2 logical drives between the two systems to be able to use one or the other - I can't do so simultaneously).

As to v12 offer, I'll email directly.

Bump for it's been a couple of days of crickets over here.... :)

Could someone please respond to the core question of the OP? Thanks.

"Yet as subject line states and as shown in 1st screen capture, I would also like to save everything in Options/Preferences (settings in all tabs, not only "General" as shown), if such is possible.

I saw no in-Vegas way to do so, but perhaps someone knows what folder/s or directory contains that data so I can copy/paste it into the re-installed Vegas, be it \Appdata or Programs folder or folders."

I think those options/preferences are stored in the registry. I suppose it might be possible to export and import a registry file from system to system or from version to version but my feeling is that it would be more trouble than it's worth, or just impossible. The fact that nobody has created a 3rd-party utility for that would seem to confirm that. I've always just manually set options and preferences in a new version or on a new system.

2 old threads worth a look:

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/migrate-transfer-project-properties-templates--98613/

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/preferences-export-where-in-windows-registry-vegas-pro-14-is-stored--106160/

It is a common request to provide a way of doing this. We have, however, not been able to get this feature into the application to this point. The biggest problem is that the design of the preferences and other settings was not designed in a way to be easily ported between versions and that this code is so integrated throughout the application that it is a very monumental change to replace the current preference and settings mechanism.

With all that said, even if we did do this work to replace the preference code with something much more flexible, it likely would not be backwards compatible, meaning there would not be a way to import setting from old versions of VP that did not have the new preferences code.

This is something relatively high on our priority list, but, as is often the case, higher priority things may pop up that push this work to the back burner again.

"-- Replace new default Render Templates folder with the original copied and saved elsewhere before uninstallation."

Show hidden files in the Control Panel/Folder Options/View.

Custom Templates are found in these typical locations by type:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Sony\Render Templates\avc-mc