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and44 · Dec 3rd 2014

I had a OS crash, and had to start over.. (pain in the ass) - anyway long story short, im back up now..
I had to re-install a few programs from fresh, Rig Manager being one of them.

However I worked on a lot of rigs that I took FROM the profiler and put them in a folder within the RigManager.

Now I cant seem to locate where this is? or would be?

Can anyone point me to the place on a windows system where it would be?

Thanks
A

315ea75b3a1edca04b66d0d49de1e7e757bfdcd5 · Dec 3rd 2014

Hello Andy, not sure I get it right but..

Your Rig Manager database is located in /Users/<name>/AppData/Local

You got a "Kemper Amps" folder inside.

mwinter77 · Dec 3rd 2014

'Your User Name'\AppData\Local\Kemper Amps\Rig Manager\

Looks like someone answered as I was typing this...

and44 · Dec 3rd 2014

Thanks guys, sadly there is not much there..

mwinter77 · Dec 3rd 2014

That sucks - sorry to hear that. I am backing up my RM directory to the cloud as I type this!

sambrox · Dec 3rd 2014

Yeah, I think if you reinstall, it overwrites that directory. You have no back up or archive? If the answer's no, I'm still pretty sure there's a nerd somewhere that knows how to retrieve the files It's certainly possible.

Hope you get it sorted.
Cheers,
Sam

ps from Google

Ingolf · Dec 3rd 2014

Ouch! I hope you can find your files.

Raoul23 · Dec 3rd 2014

No way Andy I hope some Windows genius on here might know how to sort it for ya. I always back up my RM every time i add a rig. I had to restore my OS with Acronis once and lost all my rigs I'd saved.

and44 · Dec 3rd 2014

windows restore saved the day!!..
Im not loosing 3 months work thankyaverymuch windows bugs!!

Seems like Ive backed up the wrong files then to the cloud for the last 3 months.. DOH!
Im SO glad this topic happend.. as least I know where to backup from now.

Phew.. all safe now.. stress is off. I can go have a heartattack another day!

Thanks to all that replied.

Raoul23 · Dec 3rd 2014

Quote from and44

windows restore saved the day!!..
Im not loosing 3 months work thankyaverymuch windows bugs!!

Phew.. all safe now.. stress is off. I can go have a heartattack another day!

Thanks to all that replied.

Excellent News Andy bet you feel really relieved now

Ingolf · Dec 3rd 2014

excellent!

MagnaVox · Dec 3rd 2014

Quote from mwinter77

That sucks - sorry to hear that. I am backing up my RM directory to the cloud as I type this!

Me too!!!

sambrox · Dec 3rd 2014

Quote from and44

windows restore saved the day!!..
Im not loosing 3 months work thankyaverymuch windows bugs!!

Seems like Ive backed up the wrong files then to the cloud for the last 3 months.. DOH!
Im SO glad this topic happend.. as least I know where to backup from now.

Phew.. all safe now.. stress is off. I can go have a heartattack another day!

Thanks to all that replied.

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Excellent news!!!

Cheers,
Sam

viabcroce · Dec 4th 2014

Fiewww...

For the sake of us all, where were the files?

mwinter77 · Dec 4th 2014

Quote from viabcroce

For the sake of us all, where were the files?

If you are asking where Windows stores them for RM they are at:
\users\'Your User Name'\AppData\Local\Kemper Amps\Rig Manager\

viabcroce · Dec 4th 2014

Thanks mwinter, I just had the impression that Andy's files were not where they were supposed to be

Michael_dk · Dec 4th 2014

phew!!! Glad to hear it, that woulda sucked!!!

Which cloud backup service do you use? What had happened?

and44 · Dec 4th 2014

It was very lucky.. here is the scoop. (For those interested)

Im a Protools HD user, and I was forced to update my PACE drivers for ilok (yes forced) - so I went ahead. but the computer crashed on install, and after that i was getting all sorts of install errors. - Not hearing back from PACE support (typical, those guys have the power to shut down studios world wide, and they don't care), anyway I decided to tackle it myself, I armed myself with strong coffee and my Google fingers. but to no avail. - I read a few posts of "What to do" so I tried them, fast forward a bit. and I was then left with NO pace drivers, No ILOK manager software, NO protools on my system. and a dodgy bug in windows!..

I have a OEM version of Win7 Ultimate 64 here, so I did not have the disk for it...I ran out to get a copy of the same, but DOH they dont sell it anymore..so I picked up Win8 Pro instead. - Installed, and finally got all the drivers back to work and loaded ProTools again and all is well.

I backed up all my data before this happend, and I copied the Rigmanager from program files. (DOH)

I installed the rigmanager of course,.. but then having read the location of where they were, I looked for it. and was unable to see any files.. (as win8 just overwrote the files) so the "users" file was still populated with my old data.. but sadly not RigManagers stuff.

However. luckily and thankfully, win8 copied the folder Windows.old, and inside was indeed my users folder where my rigs were still intact. happy as hell! as I had a sunken feeling I'd lost them.

I now use a cloud system provided by my server host to remote backup data (all my studio work goes there now) as well as a portable harddrive I use locally. set to run every morning

Morale of this story.. DON'T EVER UPDATE YOUR PACE DRIVERS.. or run Cubase instead!! lol

Ingolf · Dec 4th 2014

Just FYI: You can download Win 7 installation images and go from there, too.

db9091 · Dec 4th 2014

Andy,

There is this new backup service called ME where you can store all your newly made profiles so that if you ever have such a problem again you can recover them safely and in a timely manner.

To learn more about ME just ask ME

Oh, almost forgot, ME is FREE!!

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