Can you transfer Pages preferences from one mac to another?

[rovostrov]

I have a lot of autocorrect and personal preferences set up for Pages on my work
MacBook that I would like to transfer to another MacBook. Does anyone know how to
do this? I thought activating pages in iCloud would do it but had no luck with that.
I'm running Monterey, if that makes a difference.
Thanks in advance!!

 

[gregmac19]

You might want to try using Migration Assistant: https://support.apple.com/en-ph/guide/mac-help/mh27921/12.0/mac/12.0

 

[rovostrov]

You might want to try using Migration Assistant: https://support.apple.com/en-ph/guide/mac-help/mh27921/12.0/mac/12.0

Thanks for your help. I set up the new mac using migration assistant but for some reason, pages preferences didn't transfer. I'll try to give it another go, maybe it was just a glitch the first time.

 

[Yebubbleman]

I have a lot of autocorrect and personal preferences set up for Pages on my work
MacBook that I would like to transfer to another MacBook. Does anyone know how to
do this? I thought activating pages in iCloud would do it but had no luck with that.
I'm running Monterey, if that makes a difference.
Thanks in advance!!

Your preferences files will largely be stored in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages/Data/Library/Preferences. You can try copying the files you have from there into the same location on your new Mac. Though, I'd make sure that the version of Pages (and of macOS) match on the two machines. It's messy and I'd generally rather just recreate the settings on Pages with the two machines side-by-side, but if you don't want to go through all of that, this method SHOULD work.

 

[rovostrov]

Your preferences files will largely be stored in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages/Data/Library/Preferences. You can try copying the files you have from there into the same location on your new Mac. Though, I'd make sure that the version of Pages (and of macOS) match on the two machines. It's messy and I'd generally rather just recreate the settings on Pages with the two machines side-by-side, but if you don't want to go through all of that, this method SHOULD work.

That worked perfectly! You saved me a lot of headache and time. I really appreciate your help with this!

 

[Yebubbleman]

That worked perfectly! You saved me a lot of headache and time. I really appreciate your help with this!

Glad I could be of help!