Hello folks!

- Yes, I admit, I'm too lazy to search the forum for this. Faster to ask right away. Anyway, when making a fresh system install, what files should be backed up to keep LFS exactly the same way as prior to the OS install? Or even better, perhaps some one already wrote a small application to do this?


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Save the whole folder, install LFS on the new OS, and paste the old folder over it. (Don't unlock it until you paste it, so you won't waste one unlock)

Or if you just need the settings, copy the cfg.txt in your old LFS folder.

If your LFS folder is in drive D, E, F or something else than your system drive (most cases drive C:\)
Than you wont need to backup anything. BUT! If your really doing a fresh system install.
In my case, that means erase everything & start clean.

If thats the case: delete LFS.exe (might be infected) & copy everything else.
After you have the new operation system installed, download&install a fresh LFS.
Then just paste back the old files over the new ones in LFS folder.

Thats it.

Quote from nacim :

Or if you just need the settings, copy the cfg.txt in your old LFS folder.

Ok, but there's more than that one would want to backup.
Replays (mpr, spr), layouts, skins, textures, scripts...

Use the solution said in first post then.

Quote from Whiskey :

...save the whole folder

- I tried the approach you suggested. And this is what I learned; to copy only the LFS folder will result in the loss of most settings. At least if the user runs W10 Pro 64. This because W10 is using (when it does, for what and for what reason I don't know) a dedicated area to save game and user settings, settings that the game itself automatically saves whenever a change occurs. Files that are manually added by the user, for instance downloaded setup or skin files, will still remain unaffected within the LFS folder. If this behaviour is hard coded into LFS or just a new way for W10 to save settings, I can't say. Anyway, the folder to copy is located in the 'Local' branch under 'AppData' and is called 'VirtualStore'. I have seen this folder before, but gave it little attention believing it was for the online Windows Store integrated with W10. Case closed.


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