Saving Settings in Photoshop

Hey. everyone once in a wihle, i'll open photoshop to find all my settings have been erased, such as which scratch disk to use, how many files in the history, and what palettes are open. Is there a way to save settings in a file, so i can load them, and be happy again? thanks

Hi, you can press ctrl +k and there are the settins that you search.(save pallte locations)

yeah, that is checked, but every once in a while, the layer locations, and all my personalized settings are lost. There is no way to save all my settings in some file i can just load to restore?

no.. not really.
are u on a mac or PC? on a mac the file that deals with that.. sometimes needs to get trashed when the machine acts up. so is hard to keep.
i can dig it.. but it shouldnt happen unless you purposely trashed the prefrerences yourself. which i doubt you did...
and what "BlueBalance" was talking about only covered the location of your palettes not the actual prefs. themselves.

yeah, i'm on a PC... you're right, i didn't personally trash the file... i am not sure why it does what it does. I guess I'll just be forced to reset everything when this happens. Thanks both of you for the replies.

There a lot of thing you couls save...

Swatch (your colors)
Styles
Actions

For these go on their pallet, the little aroow menu and you will see the save options...

Brushes
Custom shape

Whe the tool is selected you have acex to a save fontion...

Cuves can also be saved rigth form the diloag box...

Keep all thse file on a safe locations...