Directory-based settings
In the Rider settings dialog CtrlAlt0S, you can look at page icons to see, which setting-management mechanism is used for specific pages:
Pages that are not marked with any icon host IDE settings which are saved in your user profile.
Preferences for Rider's front-end features, which are based on IntelliJ Platform, are saved in the directory-based format — in XML files in two specific places:
Your IDE settings — such as IDE layout, preferred keymap, editor settings — are saved in your user profile (%APPDATA%
\JetBrains on Windows, ~\Rider2024.2 /.config on Linux, and ~/JetBrains /Rider2024.2 /Library on macOS)./Application Support /JetBrains /Rider2024.2 Here is how to share directory-based settings for solution.
Your solution-specific settings — for example, Version Control integration, code style preferences — are saved under .idea
\.idea.[Solution_Name] (hidden on macOS) in the solution directory.\.idea Here is how to share directory-based settings for the IDE.