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Backup all settings to reg file

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:13 am
by con.aba
Like in your amazing shell extension, there is a button to save the settings to a reg file.
I hope that you add this ability to you viewer, because its very helpful.

Many thanks.

Re: Backup all settings to reg file

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:00 pm
by budz45
but there is already the ability to do this manually via the use of xnview.ini file

Re: Backup all settings to reg file

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:39 pm
by con.aba
... How can I use this file, and where? ... please!

Re: Backup all settings to reg file

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:31 pm
by budz45
con.aba wrote:... How can I use this file, and where? ... please!
Image

..and then restart xnview.

Re: Backup all settings to reg file

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:47 am
by con.aba
Thanks thanks a lot for you help.

Re: Backup all settings to reg file

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:34 am
by Irving
But it doesn't save ALL settings in that one file, namely the customized toolbar settings which are instead saved in a couple of .bar files, and in a place entirely different than the default Program Files folder .ini file.

In my case, a single user for XP, the path is:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\XnView

EDIT: with Windows 9x the path is:

C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\XnView

Re: Backup all settings to reg file

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:01 am
by obelisk
Yes, usually I set to ini and then just bak all that folder, works great
I put my pics on network, so even the image cache works across PCs.

Re: Backup all settings to reg file

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:55 pm
by budz45
Right,

Although .ini method is just fine and is as standard, still maybe a feature to Load/Backup all settings could be useful even for users that do not use the .ini saving method but also for if do (use .ini) a Load/Backup feature could save time in manually having to open up folders just to save the .ini

There could also be a list of loaded settings too which is useful for beta testers (XnView MP) that move between same amount different computers and would prefer to have differetn separate setups:
Subject: Settings: Load/Backup a 'copy' of the settings