Power went out - everything reset to default settings

Rhino
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FYI - I was working Sat night on a model and the power went out.
I could not recover my work.
But I noticed that I lost all my viewport display settings (e.g., customized shaded settings, etc.) and all my custom aliases and keyboard settings were gone on every model I opened. Everything got reset to default it seems. Also I put picture frames into som layouts and I have to replace all those pictures as their reference files was wiped out. This is a massive headache and time suck for me as I have hundreds of files.

WHAT HAPPENED!!!

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I don’t know what to tell you.
I have dodgy power too so I put my computer and Internet on UPSs.

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If you were on a pc, check your trash for your last autosave.

the way autosave works is it saves an autosave file in a temp folder, if rhino closes correctly, that gets flipped to the trash-

you will notice at then end of a long session you will see several autosaves in your trash-

as far as restoring your settings, if you had them saved somewhere, simply reload them. If you didn’t, it’s a good time to create a settings file and have it stored somewhere handy ( I have mine in a dropbox so I can get to it from anywhere)

I also personally run carbonite in the background as a continuous backup, and as John said, I also have a battery backup to my machines to avoid meltdowns like this.

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I made this Python script to back up my settings - for what it’s worth.

You need to edit this line (in red) and put in the path that you want instead:

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When you run it, it makes a copy of your entire V8 settings folder and any .rui’s you might have in the UI folder. It only copies files from one place to the other, so there is no danger involved.

If something goes south:

  1. Close Rhino, navigate to the folder where your settings are:
    C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\settings

  2. Delete the entire “settings” folder and replace it with a copy of the “settings” folder out of the backup.

  3. If you have a custom .rui, delete that one and replace it with the one from the backup.

  4. Restart Rhino, you will be back to the state when you ran the backup script.

V8SettingsBackupV1.py (2.4 KB)

Let me know if you have any questions…

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That’s weird, it’s like you just opened up Rhino for the first time and did all your customization then never closed it before the outage? I’m not sure that would even do it.

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Maybe I’m mistaken but ISTR there have been a couple of reports of mystery wipeouts of saved settings and toolbars…

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Exactly!
It is weird…now finding display settings that were wiped out. Thankfully when I open finished models all the display settings are there.
Clint