Importing / Exporting Global Options

Actions for importing, exporting, and resetting global options are available in the Options menu. The export operation allow you to save global preferences as an XML options file and the import operation allows you to load the options file. You can use this file to reload saved options on your computer or to share with others.

The following actions are available in the Options menu:
Reset Global Options
Restores the preference to the factory defaults or to customized defaults.
Import Global Options
Allows you to import a set of Global Options from an exported XML options file. You can also select a project-level options file (.xpr) to import all the Global Options that are set in that project file. After you select a file, the Import Global Options dialog box is displayed, and it informs you that the operation will only override the options that are included in the imported file. You can enable the Reset all other options to their default values option to reset all options to the default values before the file is imported.
Export Global Options
Allows you to export Global Options to an XML options file. Some user-specific options that are private are not included. For example, passwords and the name of the Review Author is not included in the export operation.

Oxygen XML Editor automatically stores your options in an XML options file. Depending on the platform you are using, this file is located in the following directories:

  • [user-home-folder]\AppData\Roaming\com.oxygenxml for Windows Vista/7/8/10
  • [user-home-folder]\Application Data\com.oxygenxml for Windows XP
  • [user-home-folder]/Library/Preferences/com.oxygenxml for OS X
  • [user-home-folder]/.com.oxygenxml for Linux

The name of the options file of Oxygen XML Editor 18.0 is oxyOptionsSa18.0.xml.