New Computer - How can I transfer settings?
A virus ate my computer and I spent most of yesterday happily reinstalling the OS and all my apps without any anger at all. But now I've fired up Capture One to find that despite my best efforts copying the folder before nuking the drive, I've lost all my user styles, recipes, and basically everything. I can't even crop any more 'cause the NEF preset is gone, and I'm pretty sure I never set that in the first place.
So my question is: how can I get it all back? Is there any way to copy over all my painstakingly collected styles? Do I have to re-create all my recipes?
So my question is: how can I get it all back? Is there any way to copy over all my painstakingly collected styles? Do I have to re-create all my recipes?
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1. Found the styles, in the old app's 'styles' folder. Of course. 😉
Weirdly half were in the most recent installation, the rest were in an old trial installation folder I didn't realize was still there. All of them were available in my old installation of C1, despite them being spread around on the drive.
2. Managed to set the crop ratio manually to the pixel dimensions of a D700 NEF (4256 x 2832) but I'm quite surprised there's no 'original' option. I also don't remember setting this last time I installed the program.0 -
Styles, presets, recipes and so on are stored in your user profile.
Windows keeps for all your custom made program settings a separate folder in your profile. Question is, where is that folder?
On Windows 7 the default location is hidden (unhide in folder settings):C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\CaptureOne
Whether you are able to restore the data depends on your backup.0 -
Yeah, I don't back up my user profile directory. Why would I? I didn't create that folder, I don't know where it is, and any app that's putting things there is doing so without my permission. I mean, it's normally hidden? What kind of dumbassery is that!?
Capture One is, so far, the only app that has ridiculous activation issues (You used them all! Click here to un-use them all!), and it's the only one storing user data anywhere but where I asked it to. Damned happy the actual photo data is stored with the photos themselves, or I'd be setting everything I own on fire.
If C1 wasn't so amazing with its output I wouldn't put up with this crap. Oh, how I suffer for what I do. 😉
But thank you for the response.0 -
Capture One's use of the user's profile folder is totally in line with Windows application specifications made by Microsoft. If would take a look there you'll find many other applications' folders. The hidden specification is from Microsoft as well.
Whether or not this is tranparent to the user is another story but regular backup software should cover this.0 -
You're probably right, but Microsoft is not known for making easy-to-use software. When I needed to transfer my non-MS email program to a new machine, I dragged and dropped the app folder. That was it, done. A co-worker tried the same with Outlook, and it was an endless ordeal of permissions, user accounts, file version compatibility, etc. That MS says developers should use the user folder does not mean it's a good idea. I'm not kidding when I say none of my other apps use it either (oh, well, my browser stores some stuff there I guess).
/rant
Still, if the only thing I actually lose is recipes, I'm going to continue not backing up a folder that's hidden from me and that I didn't ask for. 😉
I guess now I'm wondering why C1 doesn't have a backup feature so the user can continue being blissfully unaware of these hidden shenanigans? Sorry, I don't mean to sound like a dick, but I've been using computers forever and I know how they work, and how I want my stuff sorted out. It pisses me off to no end when things are unnecessarily difficult to use.0 -
A backup feature would make sense. I am afraid that the majority of users is not aware of this kind of data.
The concept of separating user data from computer or system data on PCs goes some way back (the predecessor of Windows 7 introduced it 20 years ago). In more recent versions it was refined to handle user specific application data. Mac OS X uses the same scheme.
But yes, more often than not this kind of data is lost 'in translation' so to speak, and that is a saddening thought as it don't has to be.0
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