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I was given the following error in sublime text during the build process:

LaTeXTools: you need to migrate your preferences. See the README file for instructions.

What do I need to do to fix it?

chris Frisina
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tldr: In Sublime Text, open the command palette from the Tools menu, search for "LaTeXTools: Reconfigure and migrate settings," and hit Return.

There was an update to the package LaTeXTools as of 3-12-2014. The preferences were restructured in the package, and likely you installed it via the Command Palette Install Package, which auto updates packages. You will see in the readme, you just have to follow the directions copied from the site:

Latest revision: 2014-3-12.

Highlight: New, fully customizable build system! See below for a complete description. Note that, for now, things work more or less as before, but the infrastructure is there to customize things beyond your wildest dreams!

NOTE: due to the change in the build system, I had to overhaul the preferences settings. Please read this before proceeding any further:

  • From now on, LaTeXTools will use a single settings file, called LaTeXTools.sublime-settings, which must exist in the User directory. By this I mean that LaTeXTools will not work until you have a proper LaTeXTools.sublime-settings file in the User directory.
  • Because of this, LaTeXtools provides an easy way to create it, and even automagically migrate your settings from any old LaTeXTools Preferences.sublime-settings file you may have. In Sublime Text, open the command palette from the Tools menu, search for "LaTeXTools: Reconfigure and migrate settings," and hit Return. That's it! See the Settings section for other ways to migrate or reconfigure settings.
  • The old settings file, LaTeXTools Preferences.sublime-settings, will no longer be honored.
  • The LaTeX.sublime-build file is now for internal use only. Do not modify it! If you have a customized copy in User, delete it (but do not delete the original in the LaTeXTools directory). See the Settings section below for ways to easily customize the build command.
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  • Your solution works perfectly, but I wonder where exactly is the User directory? Is it my personal user dir? In that case I don't see the indicated file ... – Heisenberg Mar 18 '14 at 05:07
  • @Anh 'Your Hard Drive name'/Users/'Your User name aka home folder'/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text '2 or 3'/Packages/User/LaTeXTools.sublime-settings – chris Frisina Mar 18 '14 at 12:53
  • Thanks! To be precise, for other Windows users, it's /AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 2/... instead. – Heisenberg Mar 18 '14 at 13:22
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Hi all (I'm the author of LaTeXTools),

a quick way to find the User directory is to select Browse Packages from the Preferences menu (on Windows---don't have a Mac handy to check). You will see one directory for each installed package, plus the User directory.

Marciano Siniscalchi
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Preferences->package settings->LaTeXTools->Reconfigure LaTeXTools and migrate settings in order to create the LaTeXTools.sublime-settingsfile.and migrate your preferences .

Just from my question (How to modify the LaTeXTools.sublime-settings to make it work in Windows (MiKTEX))

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