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# Editing Locally

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Live config changes can be made locally for development purposes.

When you run with Play-In-Editor, live config settings will be generated for your game session, which can be navigated to from the editor pop-up on the bottom right corner of your screen.

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Clicking `Open` opens an explorer window containing `json` files of your available live config settings.

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Open these files on your text editor of choice and view/amend your settings as necessary. Once the file is saved, your setting changes should be picked up by the PIE client/server within seconds.

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Note that any changes you made will not persist between PIE sessions. A new set of config files would be generated every time a new PIE session is started. If you'd like to make changes to your setting that persists, refer to [Overriding Defaults](/creation/unreal-development/features-and-tutorials/live-config/overriding-default-live-config-settings.md).\
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It is highly recommended that you test any changes made to Live Config (i.e. either after[Adding New Settings](/creation/unreal-development/features-and-tutorials/live-config/adding-new-live-config-settings.md) or [Overriding Defaults](/creation/unreal-development/features-and-tutorials/live-config/overriding-default-live-config-settings.md)) on PIE before deploying your world. Any errors on your Live Config setup will result in the following failure pop-up to appear instead, and you can refer to your Editor logs to debug the issue.

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## Via The Console

see [Live Config Console](/creation/unreal-development/features-and-tutorials/live-config/viewing-and-editing-live-config.md#via-the-console)


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