lost most of my locked tabs in xyplorer windows 10

[iaseac]

I lost about 15 or 20 highly renamed valuable tabs. In the middle of file moving and hand sorting, there was a click, and the tabs were gone.
After some checking, I elected to exit without saving. On restarting, the tabs remained gone. Then I tried go-back in XY, and that clearly did not work either.
Did a Bing and a Google - this has been a problem for others this year. The Revert to Saved did not have any answers. I have done nothing special to save locked tabs because I thought they were safe 'being locked.' I did this kind of backup C:\Users\bob9\AppData\Roaming\XYplorer\ using sync software. I prefer to do a win-10 go-back but I do not know if this would repair XY.

Any suggestions - anyone?

[admin]

We're not aware of any problems with disappearing tabs. Of course, you can actively remove tabs, switch tab sets, or delete the files containing tab-related configuration data. If you have a previous backup (File | Settings Special | Backup Application Data Folder...) it is no problem to restore everything (File | Settings Special | Restore Application Data Folder...).

Only you know what backups you have. I can't tell you what a "win-10 go-back" will do (but I would be careful with this).

[iaseac]

Thanks for the reply. The Restore Application Data Folder - restored one data folder but not THE folder. It was a few months old and Jupe had helped me resolve some conflicts within XY - and that would have been lost. I resorted to other measures outside of XY.
Looking at Settings Special #180 - I'm very interested. All the Save alternatives. I attempted to look up if #193 would save everything. I thought we had a way to F1 by the numbers by the numbers. Am I mistaken?

[admin]

In this menu, "Configuration" refers only to XYplorer.ini. The tab information is not stored here, but in the pane.ini files of the current tabset of both panes. I would recommend to backup the whole settings from time to time with File | Settings Special | Backup Application Data Folder....

[iaseac]

Beautiful!
Does this back up everything?
Is this a single file I can copy to my backup PC and have everything available except screen size?
Is there a way to automate this and store it automatically? Or in a perfect world, the last say five configurations?
(I was out yesterday - sorry.)

[admin]

Not a single file, but a single folder.

[iaseac]

Is there any limitation on naming that folder and Where it is saved?

[admin]

No.

[iaseac]

Attempting to understand the XY world. I hoped to save everything with your#196 Does it work that way? Used Copilot to help understand ...

[admin]

Better use F1.

[phred]

Better use F1.

Or create a browser link to the online PDF User Manual so you'll always have access to the latest version...
https://www.xyplorer.com/download/XYplorerHelp.pdf

[RalphM]

Whatever Update regimen you are following, the F1 help will more likely show you what is possible with your currently installed version.