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Migrate Custom Page Sizes to New Mac

I have a MacBook Pro with Mojave and a new one with Catalina. I print a ton of posters (mainly through PowerPoint) on our Canon iPf-4000s and as such have a ton of custom page sizes I'd like to not to have manually recreate on the new Mac. I also have a TimeMachine backup drive of my old MacBook Pro as well.


I've read that the custom page sizes are located in: /Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompapers.plist but that path doesn't exist. I've also looked at the Home directory's Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompapers.plist but that file doesn't exist there either. Perhaps that is due to most of these instructions are for older versions of MacOS like Sierra?


How can I move these custom page sizes over? This last of paper sizes surely has to exist somewhere, right?

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Posted on Aug 23, 2021 7:02 PM

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Posted on Aug 23, 2021 7:26 PM

I'm on Mojave & that is the file that changes when I add a custom size i Text Edit Pace Setup..


/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompapers.plist


Or for short...


~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompapers.plist


~ tilde indicates  your home folder

Apple hid the Users' Library folders...


Method 1:

  1. From the Finder, select the Go menu at top of the screen, and choose Go to Folder.
  2. In the window that opens, enter ~/Library, and click Go.


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Aug 23, 2021 7:26 PM in response to Rahstl

I'm on Mojave & that is the file that changes when I add a custom size i Text Edit Pace Setup..


/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompapers.plist


Or for short...


~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompapers.plist


~ tilde indicates  your home folder

Apple hid the Users' Library folders...


Method 1:

  1. From the Finder, select the Go menu at top of the screen, and choose Go to Folder.
  2. In the window that opens, enter ~/Library, and click Go.


Migrate Custom Page Sizes to New Mac

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