All Preferences Reset for no reason.

[bramson]

Problem Description

I started Spyder v6.0.0a4 from the console as usual after an unwanted Windows Update (that I had to uninstall anyway).
All of my settings have been reset.

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. I don't know what reset Spyder preferences, but it wasn't me.
2. Start Spyder from console
3. Notice preferences have been reset.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expected my preferences (which take many, many minutes to setup with the preferences menu panel) to be saved and used whenever I start Spyder.

Versions

• Spyder version: Spyder v6.0.0a4
• Python version: 3.11.7
• Qt-main version: 5.15.8
• PyQt version: 5.15.9
• Operating System name/version: Windows 11

Dependencies

Mandatory:

atomicwrites >=1.2.0 : 1.4.1 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0 : 5.2.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0 : 3.0.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0 : 2.5.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111 : 20230430 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2 : 3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=8.13.0,<9.0.0,!=8.17.1 : 8.21.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2,<0.20.0 : 0.19.1 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7 : 1.0.3 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0 : 4.21.1 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0 : 24.3.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0 : 7.16.0 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0 : 1.6.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0 : 3.4.0 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0,<0.9.0 : 0.8.3 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0 : 4.9.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4 : 0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3 : 5.9.8 (OK)
pygments >=2.0 : 2.17.2 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0,<3.1 : 2.17.7 (OK)
pylint_venv >=3.0.2 : 3.0.3 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0 : 0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.10.0,<1.11.0 : 1.10.0 (OK)
pylsp_black >=2.0.0,<3.0.0 : 2.0.0 (OK)
pyuca >=1.2 : 1.2 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.2.0,<3.3.0 : 3.2.3 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.2.2 : 0.2.2 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.3.0 : 1.3.0 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.5.1,<5.6.0 : 5.5.1 (OK)
qtpy >=2.4.0 : 2.4.1 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7 : 1.2.0 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0 : 69.0.3 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 7.2.6 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=3.0.0b4,<3.0.0b5 : 3.0.0b4 (OK)
superqt >=0.6.1,<1.0.0 : 0.6.1 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0 : 4.5.0 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1 : 0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3 : 4.0.0 (OK)
zmq >=22.1.0 : 25.1.2 (OK)

Optional:

cython >=0.21 : None (NOK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0 : 3.8.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7 : 1.26.4 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1 : 2.2.0 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0 : 1.12.0 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.12 (OK)