Settings considerations

Commander has application, gesture and action settings, along with a number of application presets.

Given that application, gesture and actions settings can be tailored to cater for individual user requirements, these are held in their own persistent file to avoid them being lost if the software is reinstalled, thus being retained during a reinstallation of the UPDD driver and Commander software.

Should you want to revert to the default set of applications, gestures and actions, you can do the following:

• Since UPDD V7.0.48, uninstalling the UPDD software using the supplied uninstall utilities will optionally delete the Commander user settings
• Select 'Reset All Touch Gestures To Defaults' from the Commander File menu 
• Manually delete commander settings and presets as described below

Further, should you want to return individual application settings to the default settings as originally supplied, you can select the Application from the Preset menu.

The example below is resetting 'All Applications' entry to its original settings:

Manually delete settings

Preset

The location of the application presets are listed here. Delete the sub folders and files within the preset folder.

Gesture settings

These are the settings shown in the main Commander dialog and relate to the applications and their gestures and actions.

This setting file can be removed if required, such as to take them back to default settings or to remove them prior to installing a new version of the software, by stopping Commander and removing the file using the following commands:

MacOS

In a terminal window

upddprocesses stop -c
defaults delete com.touch-base.upddcommander   (this file is used by commander pre 1.4.6 release)
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.touch-base.upddcommander.ini (this file is used by commander since 1.4.6 release)
(at this point you can either start command to recreate the setting from the default set or install the software)
Install UPDD software at this point
or
upddprocesses start -c -this will restart Commander

Windows

Quit UPDD Commander from the system tray icon

Now delete file C:\Users\<your username here>\AppData\Roaming\Touch-Base Ltd\UPDD Commander\settings.ini
A shortcut you can use to get there is to type this into the address bar of an explorer window:
%appdata%\Touch-Base Ltd\UPDD Commander\ and right click on the file and select delete
or
in a CMD window run the command del "%appdata%\Touch-Base Ltd\UPDD Commander\settings.ini"
Install UPDD software at this point 
or
Start UPDD Commander by double-clicking on the program in c:\program files (x86)\updd

Global setting

These are held in the settings tab within the Commander dialog and hold configuration setting for the Commander application.

These setting are set for optimal performance and likely default settings and are held in the standard UPDD database file.

They are lost if the UPDD software is reinstalled as this will overwrite the UPDD database file.

Uninstall

Since UPDD v7.0.48, uninstall can optionally delete the UPDD Commander application, gesture and actions setting as controlled by global setting updd_commander_uninstall_settings 

This setting indicates how UC gesture settings should be handled during uninstall

0 – Retain
1 – Remove
2 – Request (default – show dialog to confirm deletion, given that they may want to be retained)