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Customisation settings backup

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Do I have to back up my revised settings since they were last done in 2015?
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On the assumption that you have changed some settings and added some customisations over the intervening two years, then that is a good idea.

The current Backup and Restore Family Historian Settings Plugin does have an option to Restore from Backups taken with an earlier Version of FH, and offers not to overwrite customisations with the same Name but a later Date.

However, it would be wise to take a Backup snapshot of whatever settings you have now.
You never know when your PC or HDD will crash and require everything to be re-installed from scratch.
So both Project and Settings backups on external media must be a daily/weekly regime, which can be mostly automated.
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Is there a default drive that the settings back up goes to? Currently I'm unable to find it, can I make the default a portable hard derive?
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I have moved this to the Plugin Discussions Forum.

By default the Plugin should use the same folder as for your Project Backups.
i.e. Whatever is defined in Tools > Preferences > Backup > Default Backup Folder.

But on its Options tab you can Choose Backup Folder to be wherever you like.

In its Status panel that folder is shown in the Backup Data: box.

Are you saying you cannot find your settings backup taken in 2015?

Have you changed PC since then, or made any other significant changes to where FH stores its data?
If so, did you copy the Plugin nominated Backup Data folder to new location?
Try searching for files such as Registry.keys or Version.data that exist within the Family Historian folder that itself exists within the Plugin nominated Backup Data folder.
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