I purchased and installed the Syncovery 10 upgrade. Everything was fine until I went into settings and selected "Registry (user-specific)" for "Store Preferences And Profiles In".
I was prompted to back up my settings, and accepted the offer. I was prompted to enter a password, but since I don't care about my settings being encrypted, left it blank and simply hit "OK". There were a bunch of error messages, and now Syncovery is a blank slate. All of my settings and profiles are gone.
Pointing Syncovery to the Syncovery.ini file in my AppData\Roaming directory does not help.
I do have copies of the old Syncovery.ini file. I'm not willing to reconfigure everything. How do I get back to where I was?
Upgraded to Syncovery 10, lost all of my settings and profiles
Re: Upgraded to Syncovery 10, lost all of my settings and profiles
I think I've managed to get back to where I was. But I want to store my settings in the registry. How can I do that without recreating all of my profiles and settings?
Edit: I guess that I simply have to reconfigure everything manually, but can export and then import the profiles? Can I just say that this is more difficult and stressful than perhaps it should be? I didn't expect to lose everything simply by selecting "Registry". I expected everything to be transferred over automatically.
Edit: I guess that I simply have to reconfigure everything manually, but can export and then import the profiles? Can I just say that this is more difficult and stressful than perhaps it should be? I didn't expect to lose everything simply by selecting "Registry". I expected everything to be transferred over automatically.
Re: Upgraded to Syncovery 10, lost all of my settings and profiles
Hello,
to be honest, saving profiles in the registry is a legacy mode and only provided for backwards compatibility. Or simply because I didn't have the guts to take it out. It is not tested whatsoever and you will definitely run into serious problems if you try to use it.
Please don't!
to be honest, saving profiles in the registry is a legacy mode and only provided for backwards compatibility. Or simply because I didn't have the guts to take it out. It is not tested whatsoever and you will definitely run into serious problems if you try to use it.
Please don't!
Re: Upgraded to Syncovery 10, lost all of my settings and profiles
LOL, OK. I had already decided to use an .INI file in %AppData%\Syncovery instead.
BTW, Syncovery uses %AppData% by default (if "each user's 'Application Data' folder' is chosen), which I am sorry to say, is not ideal or expected. It should use %AppData%\Syncovery, and not store its files in the \Roaming folder itself.
It's also strange that Syncovery would use %AppData% (i.e. "\Roaming") at all, since it wants to use a machine- or user-tied encryption key by default. If you're machine- or local-user-tied, you'd want to use %LocalAppData% (i.e. "\Local"), not %AppData%. I assume I don't need to explain why this is so.
OK, I'll shut up.
Thanks for the reply!
BTW, Syncovery uses %AppData% by default (if "each user's 'Application Data' folder' is chosen), which I am sorry to say, is not ideal or expected. It should use %AppData%\Syncovery, and not store its files in the \Roaming folder itself.
It's also strange that Syncovery would use %AppData% (i.e. "\Roaming") at all, since it wants to use a machine- or user-tied encryption key by default. If you're machine- or local-user-tied, you'd want to use %LocalAppData% (i.e. "\Local"), not %AppData%. I assume I don't need to explain why this is so.
OK, I'll shut up.
Thanks for the reply!
Re: Upgraded to Syncovery 10, lost all of my settings and profiles
Thanks, I will look into it.