Restore collection from file backup

Hi

Reinstalled windows and noticed when restoring Dopus settings that only a single file collection was restored when importing settings from a DPS backup file.

I've got a (Symantec) Ghost image of the C: drive from when I had a number of other collections and wondering how to restore additional file collections.

I tried simply copying the contents of the C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\Collections folder but there must be another part to it.

Any ideas on how to restore a file collection from a file backup as opposed to a Dopus preference backup?

Cheers

You did the right thing, but if you manually copy some collections into the config directory then you have to restart Opus for it to pick them up.

Excellent! thanks for that.

The process I went through for anyone else was:

  • close Directory Opus and the dopusrt.exe process
  • copy .col files back into the Collection folder in the user profile using Windows Explorer
  • re-open Directory Opus and there they were

:slight_smile:

I don't think you need to worry about dopusrt.exe in this case.

Copying the files using Opus and then restarting it seemed to work fine for me as well. (I only added collections; didn't replace any. Maybe if you replace some it would be best to use Explorer with Opus not running during the copy, as you did.)