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Library location, how long traces are kept, moving your library, and resetting.
Housekeeping for your library and Activity history. Most people never need to change anything here.
What's here #
Library shows the library folder, with Show in Finder.
Traces sets Keep traces for (1 to 365 days) and Keep at most (runs). Older runs leave Activity, and whichever limit hits first applies. Failed runs are kept at least 90 days.
Palette hold sets the Hold time: how long the palette hotkey is held before it acts on the selection, and how long the Clipboard History key is held before it opens Paste As. A shorter press opens the palette or the history. It is greyed out unless one of those holds is on.
Move your library has Export Library…, which writes one .switchboard file, and a pointer to Settings › Imports, where every app you can bring in is one row. To move only some macros, select them in the editor and use File › Export Macro… (⇧⌘E).
Reset has Show Welcome Again, and Reset Settings…, which returns every setting to its default. Macros and groups are not touched.
About shows the version and update details.
Tricks #
Raise the trace limits if you want older runs to look back through in Activity.
Export before a big change; the file is a copy you can import later.