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# Save properties

- OCCURRENCE
- DESCRIPTION
- NOTES
- GENERAL NOTES ABOUT PROPERTIES
- EXAMPLES
- WARNINGS
- BUGS

## OCCURRENCE

### In 'Properties' menus

## DESCRIPTION

### Saves the userdefined setup (colours, fonts, ...) to property files. These files are located in the directory pointed to by the environmentvariable $ARB_PROP (which defaults to '~/.arb_prop' in your home directory). See also ´ARB environment variables´.

## NOTES

### To reset ARB to it's defaults simply remove one/all *.arb files from the directory '~/.arb_prop'

### The files in ~/.arb_prop are textfiles. Advanced users may remove or change single sections or entries.

### You can hand over your properties to another user by giving him your property-files.

## GENERAL NOTES ABOUT PROPERTIES

### Most settings you can change in ARB are saved either

- to properties or
- with your database.

### Nevertheless some setting are not stored anywhere (some intentionally, some by mistake).

### Please notify arb@arb-home.de if you think

- a setting should be saved in properties (instead of always setting the same useless default value)
- a setting should be saved in the database instead of properties (or vice versa)

## EXAMPLES

### None

## WARNINGS

### Better make backups of these files before you change them.

### Be careful with ARB_MERGE: It uses the same properties as ARB_NT!

## BUGS

### No bugs known