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I would like to locate the folder where Qt Creator saves all its settings (text editor preferences, syntax highlighting, etc.) so that I can back them up. Does anybody know where they are?

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See QtCreator Quick Tour.

Qt Creator creates the following files and directories:

QtCreator.db
QtCreator.ini
qtversion.xml
toolChains.xml
qtcreator
qtc-debugging-helper
qtc-qmldump

The location depends on the platform. On Linux and other Unix platforms, the files are located in ~/.config/QtProject and ~/.local/share/data/QtProject/qtcreator.

On Mac OS, the files are located in ~/.config/QtProject and ~/Library/Application Support/QtProject/Qt Creator.

On Windows in general, the files are located in %APPDATA%\QtProject and %LOCALAPPDATA%\QtProject. Yes, you can use these paths in Explorer and in various command line shells. The environment variables (between the %-signs) are expanded automatically. If you need the concrete paths, see below.

On Windows 10, 8, Vista and 7, the files are located in <drive>:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\QtProject and <drive>:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\QtProject.

On Windows XP, the files are located in <drive>:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\QtProject and <drive>:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\QtProject.

Kuba hasn't forgotten Monica
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Bill
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    One additional note (years later): if QT creator is running really really slowly (read: 100% cpu) this could resolve that. I had this problem with a centos VM, and deleting these files fixed it. – David D Sep 07 '16 at 20:57
  • Should we delete those two folders to make Qt Creator settings reset? – Franky Feb 28 '17 at 17:14
  • Another note: there are two copies of XML files in `$CREATOR_INSTALL_DIR/share/QtProject/qtcreator` and in `%APPDATA%/QtProject/qtcreator`: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13986917/2404492. The first fileset is created by `sdktool` and QtCreator copies it to the second one, appending manually added data. – Alexandr Zarubkin Jul 26 '19 at 10:49
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Starting from version 2.7 it's %APPDATA%/Roaming/QtProject on Windows 7 and 8.

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To complete Bill's answer, Qt Creator might also create files in \QtCreator\bin\ - this is where it's going to save all your projects by default.

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    `\QtCreator\bin\ ` is not a valid path on any major OS. You're using forward slashes, so I assume you're on Windows. Is this relative to the home directory (`%HOMEPATH%\QtCreator\bin\ `) or to the system drive (`%SYSTEMDRIVE%\QtCreator\bin\ `) or to the Qt installation directory ? Please consider completing your answer. – ssc Jun 14 '15 at 08:25