Restoring Backups ??

Published on November 15, 2008 By BSkiLLs In WindowBlinds

I recently had to do a reformat as i believe Skinstudio cause some issues and deleted my main account folder. (even though i could still get to it from "my computer >> C: >> doc & settings >> )

but deleted it straight from the c: drive view. Anyways not going to get to much on that one but. I copied my windowsblinds folder from " all users \ blah blah \ windowblinds \ etc etc....

My question is, how can i back up better ?? and also how do i restore my back-ups from that folder into windowsblinds as thats all my skins. None of the folders as most of you know have the .wba in them. They are the extracted versions . So how would i add them back into windows blinds so i can use them ??? Plus do it pretty fast as i have like 50 to 100 to add back.

I tried to just paste one in there to see if it wou;ld show in the program but it would not of course.

Thanks for any and all help.

Comments

BSkiLLs

on Nov 15, 2008

By the way, i know you can of course save the .wba's instead of install / open them as you download them but, wondering different ways since this plus just want to know because of the ones that install right after download ones we do not select to install or open with windowblinds as the download menu options.

Mainly the ones we do not have the .wba for only the extracted versions of them as in folder form.

Fuzzy Logic

on Nov 15, 2008

You can set up dozens of different 'profiles' for all sorts of things. It's never let me down yet.

You can copy and paste a folder back into WindowBlinds, but when you have you'll need to 'rebuild list' in 'Skin Options', WindowBlinds, for them to show.

BSkiLLs

on Nov 15, 2008

Deionychus

reply 2

A useful free back up program is SyncBack. You can set it to copy your folder at regular intervals. Then when you need to restore, you can just copy the whole thing back (or individual items if you wish).

You can set up dozens of different 'profiles' for all sorts of things. It's never let me down yet.

You can copy and paste a folder back into WindowBlinds, but when you have you'll need to 'rebuild list' in 'Skin Options', WindowBlinds, for them to show.

OK, thanks. Yeah, i heard about that program. Its like a mirror isn't it ??

I have a couple externals and am doing that here next week with mirroring them for other reason but.

OK. Thanks i think you might of answered me to on that last part of what you said. I forgot to hit rebuild list. Let me try. Thxs again and if not i will be back and post and see whats up.

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