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How to Restore Custom Toolbar & Other Settings?
Posted: 20 Feb 2014 06:27
by Laurie Nelson
My computer crashed & I had to restore the OS. After re-installing XYPlorer, I copied the usual files (*.ini, catalog.dat files, etc.). I didn't lose any catalog data, but my toolbar is not the way I set it up and the mini tree isn't loaded (I had one of my catalogs in it). What am I doing wrong?
Vista Home Premium 2008 x64--I had to reinstall the original OS then Service Pack 2 & about 100 updates. Then I had to re-install it all over again. I've been working on getting my system back almost non-stop for 6 days & still have problems I can't figure out. I have a number of programs I still want to re-install, so I'm so tired I'm probably not thinking clearly about XY. And I don't want to have to set up my toolbar & mini tree again.
TIA for any help.
Re: How to Restore Custom Toolbar & Other Settings?
Posted: 25 Feb 2014 09:57
by admin
The toolbar data are in the INI file (usually called XYplorer.ini). Are you sure that you picked the right INI file?
Re: How to Restore Custom Toolbar & Other Settings?
Posted: 25 Feb 2014 23:36
by eil
i once had same thing. one morning XY kinda crashed and most of my setting(actually all that were in .ini) were lost./ and while i was trying to know waht happened, a backup that XY does appeared to be made of new corrupted file.
Re: How to Restore Custom Toolbar & Other Settings?
Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:28
by admin
I hope you all know that those settings are not lost since XY always keeps a backup of them in <xydata>\AutoBackup\.
eil wrote:i once had same thing. one morning XY kinda crashed and most of my setting(actually all that were in .ini) were lost./ and while i was trying to know waht happened, a backup that XY does appeared to be made of new corrupted file.
I cannot see why a crash would destroy a file. At what moment crashed it? When closing?
And the corrupted backup was the one in <xydata>\AutoBackup\?
Re: How to Restore Custom Toolbar & Other Settings?
Posted: 26 Feb 2014 10:47
by eil
admin wrote:I cannot see why a crash would destroy a file. At what moment crashed it? When closing?
And the corrupted backup was the one in <xydata>\AutoBackup\?
no idea. one evening i finished my work ordinary and all was fine, the other day XY started with like "fresh" settings. at first i couldn't understand/believe what happened, so made few start/close, till i understood only separate files are safe. probably that's when backup saved new "corrupted" version over good one.
Re: How to Restore Custom Toolbar & Other Settings?
Posted: 26 Feb 2014 15:16
by admin
eil wrote:admin wrote:I cannot see why a crash would destroy a file. At what moment crashed it? When closing?
And the corrupted backup was the one in <xydata>\AutoBackup\?
no idea. one evening i finished my work ordinary and all was fine, the other day XY started with like "fresh" settings. at first i couldn't understand/believe what happened, so made few start/close, till i understood only separate files are safe. probably that's when backup saved new "corrupted" version over good one.
Weird. If this ever happens again please make a copy of the corrupt XYplorer.ini before you overwrite it. Then send it to me. It might help me to find out what happened.