diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/Base.java b/app/src/processing/app/Base.java
index 20a4658aa..f6f418117 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/Base.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/Base.java
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ public class Base {
 
     BaseNoGui.initPortableFolder();
 
-    BaseNoGui.prescanParameters(args);
+    BaseNoGui.initParameters(args);
     
     BaseNoGui.initVersion();
     VERSION_NAME = BaseNoGui.VERSION_NAME;
diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/BaseNoGui.java b/app/src/processing/app/BaseNoGui.java
index e6ae03115..825af095c 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/BaseNoGui.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/BaseNoGui.java
@@ -677,9 +677,7 @@ public class BaseNoGui {
     
     initPortableFolder();
     
-    PreferencesData.init(null);
-    
-    prescanParameters(args);
+    initParameters(args);
     
     init(args);
   }
@@ -744,7 +742,7 @@ public class BaseNoGui {
     }
   }
 
-  static public void prescanParameters(String args[]) {
+  static public void initParameters(String args[]) {
     String preferencesFile = null;
 
     // Do a first pass over the commandline arguments, the rest of them