Back Up and Restore Your Settings

Overview

All settings are contained in a single folder. No settings are kept in the Registry. This means that backing up and restoring your settings is a simple matter of copying/restoring the settings folder. Applies to all products.

Back Up Your Settings

To back up your settings, do the following:

1. Go to the "Help" menu (not button) > "Support Options" (or just "Support")
2. Click the "Browse Settings" button
3. An Explorer window will open to your settings folder; minimize it for now
4. Go back to the "Help" menu > "Support Options"
5. Click "Close All FileCenter Apps"
6. Go back to the Explorer window with your settings in it
7. Copy all of the files and folders to your backup location – another folder, a thumb drive, a USB drive, a CD or DVD, etc.

Restore your settings

To restore your settings, do the following:

1. Go to the "Help" menu (not button) > "Support Options"
2. Click the "Browse Settings" button
3. An Explorer window will open to your settings folder; minimize it for now
4. Go back to the "Help" menu > "Support Options"
5. Click "Close All FileCenter Apps"
6. Go back to the Explorer window with your settings in it
7. Copy all of the files and folders from your backup location back into the settings folder, replacing the existing files
8. Start your program

If there are any errors or problems, make sure that the backup files were from the same version of your program, and that they were restored to exactly the same location.

Network Settings

If you use System Settings on your network, many of your FileCenter settings will be coming in from a shared network folder. You can see what this folder is by going to the FileCenter "Tools" menu > "System Settings Path".

You may also have a shared Separators database that resides on the network. You can see the database path in the "Tools" menu > "Settings" > "Separators" > "Separators Database Location".