Managing preferences
Managing preferences
You can manage, back up and restore your tablet settings and preferences for single or multiple users, either to your computer or to the Wacom Cloud, using the Backup and Restore capability of the Wacom Desktop Center. Wacom Cloud backup and restore uses Wacom storage on a secure remote server. See Wacom Desktop Center.
Backup and Restore using Wacom Tablet Preferences File utility
You can also back up and restore your settings and preferences to your computer with the Wacom Tablet Preference File utility.
For Windows systems:
- Windows 8® : From the Windows 8 Start screen, click the Wacom Tablet Preference File Utility tile. If you are using Windows 8 Classic View, press the Windows key on your keyboard, or select the Windows icon in the Charms bar, to access the Start screen.
- Windows 7® and Windows Vista® : Click the Start button and select All Programs. Select Wacom Tablet, then Wacom Tablet Preference File Utility.

- Close any open applications.
- Set your preferences as follows:
- To back up your preferences, click Backup... under My Preferences.
- To restore preferences that you had previously backed up, click Restore... under My Preferences.
- To remove preferences for the current user, click Remove under My Preferences.
- To delete preferences for multiple users, click Remove under All User Preferences.
- Relaunch any currently open tablet-aware applications that you may be running.
For Mac® :
- Open the main Applications folder.
- Open the Wacom Tablet folder and run the Wacom Tablet Utility.
- To back up your preferences, select Current User, then click Backup....
- To restore preferences that you had previously backed up, select Current User, then click Restore....
- To remove preferences, select Current User, or All Users, then click Remove.
Note: Administrator rights are required to delete preferences for all users.