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Preference Manager Changelog

Changes in Preference Manager 4.5.4

  • Removed telemetry from the app
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a "Background Items Added" alert to appear multiple times
  • Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
May 2023

Changes in Preference Manager 4.5.3

  • Improved compatibility with Adobe Creative Cloud 2022
April 2022

Changes in Preference Manager 4.5.2

  • Stability improvements
June 2021

Changes in Preference Manager 4.5.1

  • Minor bug fixes and stability improvements
May 2021

Changes in Preference Manager 4.5

  • Native support for M1 Macs
  • Compatibility with macOS 11.0 Big Sur
  • Improved visual quality of app icons
  • Various fixes and code modernizations
February 2021

Changes in Preference Manager 4.4.4

  • Compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina
  • Dark Mode support
  • Fixed an issue where enabling a password at startup couldn't be disabled again
  • Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
October 2019

Changes in Preference Manager 4.4.3

  • Support for backing up and restoring FCPX workspaces
  • General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
March 2019

Changes in Preference Manager 4.4.2

  • Replaced Growl with native Notification Center alerts
  • General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
March 2018

Changes in Preference Manager 4.4.1

  • Disabled preference locking for certain apps due to incompatibility with newer versions of macOS
  • Fixed several issues with how unlockable preferences are displayed in the Lock pane
  • General bug fixes and performance improvements
May 2017

Changes in Preference Manager 4.4

  • Preference Manager now requires OS X 10.8 or higher
  • Kollaborate support removed (for now)
  • Support for backing up FCPX metadata definitions
  • Improved support for Adobe Premiere workspaces
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a hang when managing auto backups
  • Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
October 2016

Changes in Preference Manager 4.3.2

  • Improved Premiere Pro support
October 2015

Changes in Preference Manager 4.3.1

  • Improved compatibility with FCPX
August 2015

Changes in Preference Manager 4.3

Important: due to changes to Avid Media Composer support, backups of Media Composer preferences will need to be recreated with this version.

  • Preference Manager is now 64-bit only
  • Improved compatibility with Adobe Prelude and Media Encoder
  • Improved support for Avid Media Composer sub-users
  • Improved compatibility with OS X 10.10
  • Various other fixes and tweaks
August 2015

Changes in Preference Manager 4.2.8

  • Support for Adobe Creative Cloud 2015
  • Added auto-detection of future Adobe cloud updates
  • Various other bug fixes and tweaks
June 2015

Changes in Preference Manager 3.1.2

Last 10.5-compatible version

June 2012

Changes in Preference Manager 2.0.7

Last 10.4-compatible update

May 2010