Migrating Accordance Desktop to Another Computer

Need to migrate Accordance Desktop to another computer? These are the following folders you will want to migrate to ensure your entire Accordance library, files, and settings are successfully migrated.

Accordance for Mac

There are 4 folders that you will want to migrate:

1. The Accordance app (the program itself) located in the Applications folder.

2. The Accordance folder (which holds your modules and support files) is located in either your Home User library or the Macintosh HD Library: Go to [username]/Library/Application Support/Accordance. (If your Home library is hidden, you have to hold down your Option key while you have the Go menu open in order to see the hidden Library underneath Home in the Go drop down menu) OR

Go to Computer/Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Accordance.

3. The Accordance Preferences folder (which contains your individual preferences) is located at [username]/Library/Preferences/Accordance Preferences (If your Home library is hidden, you have to hold down your Option key while you have the Go menu open in order to see the hidden Library underneath Home in the Go drop down menu).

4. The Accordance Files folder (which holds your workspaces, highlights, user notes, tools etc.) located in your Documents folder.

Accordance for Windows

There are 4 folders that you will want to migrate:

1. The Accordance program: (remove or rename the OakTree folder) under C:\Program Files (x86)\Oaktree\Accordance\Accordance.exe

2. The Accordance folder which contains the modules, etc.: (remove or rename the Accordance folder) under C:\ProgramData\Accordance

3. Preferences: (remove or rename the Accordance folder) under C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Accordance\Accordance Preferences

4. User Content: (remove or rename the Accordance Files folder) under This PC\Documents\Accordance Files or  C:\Users\[username]\Documents

AppData and ProgramData are hidden folders. To show hidden folders on Windows 10 or 11, go to File Explorer > View > Check Hidden Items.

For legacy versions of Accordance (10 or below):

We all need to remember that in Accordance 7 and OS X not all Accordance files are kept in the Accordance folder. Each user's preferences and saved work are stored in his Home:

These files should be backed up from time to time, and should be copied to a new Mac if the Accordance folder is copied.

However, when using backup software, or migrating to another Mac, the file types may not be retained. You can simply copy back these folders from your original Home folder.

If you simply delete your

Accordance will recreate them from the Preferences in the Accordance folder so you will have your modules but you will lose your ranges, settings, arrangements of modules, etc.

As long as these Preferences are bad or corrupt (which can also happen occasionally in normal use since these files are constantly being updated), reinstalling Accordance will make no difference. It is rarely necessary to reinstall everything, please do it only as a last resort. The Preferences are the key to most issues with Accordance not running.

In addition, if you get an error message about one of these files, you can simply delete it and Accordance will recreate it: