22.2.1 Change preferences within Geneious Prime

Start a fresh copy of Geneious Prime, set it up the way you want. Shut down and then copy the file Geneious 2022.0 Data/user_preferences.xml.

On Windows and Linux, copy the file to the Geneious installation directory and rename it to default_user_preferences.xml.

On MacOS rename the file to default_user_preferences.xml and copy it to either
/Users/(username)/Library/Application Support/Geneious/ (to set preferences for a single user account)
or
/Library/Application Support/Geneious/ (to set preferences for all users of a computer)

The default preferences set for all users of a computer will take precedence over default preferences set for individual users.

After copying the default_user_preferences file to the appropriate location, when users start Geneious Prime for the first time they will get the configuration you set rather than the normal default.

Examples of features you can change:

• Turn off automatic updates
• Set default custom BLAST location
• Set up a shared Database
• Set up a proxy server default
• Turn off particular plugins

Any users who have already run Geneious should click the “Reset All Preferences” button in the Geneious Preferences to load these defaults.