General

Automatically Check for updates at startup

If this option is checked, ProPresenter will automatically check for updates when the program launches as long as you have an internet connection. If you don’t want to be notified of updates automatically, uncheck this option, but remember to check regularly for updates.

Crash Reporting

If you uncheck this section, the application will not attempt to submit crash reports when the application fails to work properly. If your computer doesn’t have a consistent internet connection, you may wish to disable this option.

Library Folder

This menu allows you to select from multiple libraries as well as add additional libraries. Adding additional libraries will be covered later in this guide in the section title Working with the Library. You can click on the magnifying glass to jump straight into the folder in your file system.

Logo

The ProPresenter logo is the default logo. You can change this by clicking on this button and selecting your own image. Having your organization’s logo or other image here provides you with something to go to in an emergency. Checking Preserve aspect ratio will maintain the aspect ratio of the logo image.

Support Files

The Support Files is all the unique information about ProPresenter related to your settings. This includes templates, playlist data, props, etc. You can change whether this is stored for all users or only the current user account, or in a custom location.

The default setting is “Only this User”. In general, this information is kept unique between user accounts, however, if you have an administrator account and a standard user account, and want ProPresenter to be identical in each account, you can change this to “For All Users”. You will generally want to do this before you start adding content to ProPresenter to avoid any issues with your data.

The Custom Path option allows you to store this information in a custom location. This may be on a server or in a third-party cloud storage service, or even in a custom directory on your computer for other user accounts to be able to access the files easier.

Media Repository

This is the directory where any media purchased through the store is downloaded to and where media that is imported with bundles is stored. Click the magnifying glass to go directly to the selected directory.

For All users, Only this User, and Custom Path use the same rules as the Support Files.

If you check the Manage Media Automatically option, any media that you add to ProPresenter will be copied to this location. By default this option is not checked, so any media added to ProPresenter doesn’t move the original files. If you enable this option, all media files will be added to ProPresenter and automatically moved into your media repository, preventing accidental broken links. If you already have a well organized media storage method, you may not want to enable this option.

If you use the local Sync option you will need to enable Manage Media Automatically if you want to sync your media files. If you use the Cloud Sync option, this is enabled automatically when you first connect your account to ProPresenter.

Search Paths

If you need to move all of your media from on directory to another (e.g., ~/Desktop/ to ~/Documents/), you can add a new search path. When you restart ProPresenter, the links to your media will all be updated.

Copyright

Copyright settings are covered later in this guide in the section called Copyright Settings. The settings here are the global settings for Copyright display.

Reset All Preferences

This resets all the custom settings made in Preferences. This will reset the settings on each tab in Preferences. After you reset preferences you will see a second option to revert to the previous preferences. We added a restore utility in case this was accidentally clicked or doesn’t fix the issue you were trying to resolve.