Open multiple LightBurn instances on a Mac?

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If you’re curious, @adammhaile had an interesting post where he shows how to use independent prefs file for different instances. He shows this for Windows but looks like the principles could be used for other OSes.

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It pretty much confirmed to me that one instance of LightBurn was overwriting the other. Hence your problems. Given what you want to do and how LightBurn handles preferences, I believe you need another solution. It’s possible to tell LightBurn to use a different path for the preferences, but it takes a little work. We’ll make it easier in the future most likely, but for now here’s how to do it. Follow these directions exactly: Open LightBurn and go to File > Export Prefs. Save the .lbprefs f…