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The best way to back up your foobar

Last night was the third time it happened... I hastily shut down my computer and forgot to turn off foobar. I realized my mistake in an instant and then restarted my machine to find that... once again, the .cfg file was screwed up. Attempting to learn from past mistakes I tried copying over an older .cfg file, but foobar wouldn't load properly. I then attempted to simply copy over an entire foobar2000 directory I had saved to make it exactly like it was.. but this also didn't work. Alas, after several hours of reconfiguring everything I have it back to just about the way I want foobar... But now I'm stuck in the same position of simply dreading whenever this happens nextime.

Does anyone

A. Know of a way to prevent this from happening? (I've searched about it before and the only steady answers I've come up with are "remember to close your foobar" and "don't use plugins"... )

B. Know of a really good way to back up ALL of you foobar settings?

The best way to back up your foobar

Reply #1 –
I wrote a little program to auto-backup your .cfg files. Apparently corruption's not as great of an issue with 0.9, so it's kinda redundant, but anyhow, here's a link to the thread where I posted it.
foo_loader

The best way to back up your foobar

Reply #2 –
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I wrote a little program to auto-backup your .cfg files. Apparently corruption's not as great of an issue with 0.9, so it's kinda redundant, but anyhow, here's a link to the thread where I posted it.
foo_loader
[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=353447"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]


Awesome! I'm definitely going to give this a try. thanks.

The best way to back up your foobar

Reply #3 –
I've been using canar's "foo_loader" for a while now. Saved my a** many times, a must have.  Works very well.
My English sucks... Forgive me :(

The best way to back up your foobar

Reply #4 –
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Does anyone

A. Know of a way to prevent this from happening? (I've searched about it before and the only steady answers I've come up with are "remember to close your foobar" and "don't use plugins"... )

Not a long time ago I encountered with index.dat file corruption (I suppose?) after a regular shutdown w/o closing fb2k so all the playlist titles were lost. Is this a 0.9b13 bug?

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B. Know of a really good way to back up ALL of you foobar settings?

I use WinRAR
 

The best way to back up your foobar

Reply #5 –
save the foobar2000 folder 
Sorry for my bad English