Update resets preferences

There are two parts to my problem, but they’re linked:

  1. Ever since I upgraded from Dopus 11 to Dopus 12, every update — including the upgrade to 12 itself — resets my user preferences. When installation is complete, I click the “restart my computer now” button, but on restart the computer hangs with a blank black screen.

When I shut down & restart again, my customized toolbar & menu & my lister layouts come thru ok, but everything else — colors, fonts, columns, status bar, folder tabs etc — gets reset to the default values. Given how customizable Dopus is & how much I customize it, this is a major pain in the ass.

I’ve since located & backed up the config files, so hopefully next time this happens I’ll be able to rectify it more easily, but I’m concerned that overwriting the config files of a new update with older files might lead to a whole different set of headaches. In any case, this just shouldn’t be happening in such an expensive — tho admittedly sophisticated — piece of software.

  1. I’m running Win 10 Home 64-bit on an Asus K20CD, but I can’t tell you exactly which version of Dopus 12 I’m using. On the help screen of most software I’m familiar with, there’s an “about” button that tells you the version, etc. I can’t find any such thing on Dopus. Am I overlooking something? It seems the only way to dig out that info would be to run a script & I don’t know how — nor have time to teach myself — to run a Dopus script.

Am I the only one having this problem? What am I doing wrong?

Oops! My bad. Kindly ignore part 2. Pretend I never said that. I just figured out I'm running Dopus 12.2 x64.

It sounds like your PC is failing to shut down or start up and falling back on a restore point or something.

See what the system Event Viewer says, which may tell you what is failing or happening.

If your system is having problems starting up or shutting down, it's best to solve them first and worry about Opus afterwards, as the problem with Opus is quite possibly just a symptom of that.

Note that if you uninstall Opus before installing a new version, that will wipe your config. Updates should be installed over the top.