Backing up Daz studio settings?

hacsart

Is there a way to backup the program settings for Daz Studio? Had a Windows crash, and lost all interface customization as well as author info, etc? Studio 4.9 on Win 8.1

Thanks!

Richard Haseltine

You can save your layout from Window>Workspace>Customise. You can also back up the C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\Daz 3d\Studio 4 folder, and the C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\Daz 3d\cms folder for the content database.

nicstt

you can also save the specific registry settings which is useful, but if you're not familiar with it - potentially risky.

 

hacsart

Thanks - restored the appdata folder form a backup and that got most of it.. Will look at what is stored in the registry...

Richard Haseltine

Rob now has some sample scripts that will help with backing up and restoring:

backup just the layout files
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/file_zip_compress_each/start

restore layout files
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/file_zip_extract_each/start

There are also a couple for backing up/restoring folders as a whole

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/file_zip_compress_all/start
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/file_zip_extract_all/start