Solved Lost all my settings... :(

[madFloyd]

Studio One crashed upon exit (re-booting my PC) and now I seemingly lost all my settings.

Keyboard shortcuts, audio device, etc all gone.

Does anyone know many settings files are involved and where are they stored?

 

[Trucky]

Sorry, I've not seen that happen before.

Did you use the default installation path (C:\Program Files\PreSonus\Studio One 7) for Windows when you installed Studio One 7.2?

I'm not familiar with the Neumann MT48 but I've seen audio interfaces that cause major issues with Studio One.
Is it's ASIO driver still installed in Windows and is it the latest release?

 

[madFloyd]

Sorry, I've not seen that happen before.

Did you use the default installation path (C:\Program Files\PreSonus\Studio One 7) for Windows when you installed Studio One 7.2?

I'm not familiar with the Neumann MT48 but I've seen audio interfaces that cause major issues with Studio One.
Is it's ASIO driver still installed in Windows and is it the latest release?

I did not use the default because it's usually recommended to use a dedicated drive for audio and there didn't seem to be a way to separate 'songs' from other 'settings' type data.

So one of the things that happened was that most (if not all) settings were reset to defaults. I had thought I lost all my macros (!!!!), but it was a matter of setting up the locations again.

I backup all my data from my Studio One folder (on my audio drive) but that doesn't include all the settings that reside in "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\PreSonus\Studio One 7".

Now I know that these need to be backed up as well.

Took me a while to restore everything but I think I'm good now.

Phew!

 

[Trucky]

Glad to hear that everything is working again (Backups are very important!).

So where did you install Studio One and what locations are you using User Data, Soundsets, etc.?

Why do you think it crashed?

 

[madFloyd]

I install Studio One (the application) in the default location (c:\program files\presonus\Studio One 7). I pretty much use the default locations for plugins, but all 'user' data resides in "D:\Studio One Data\". I also store soundsets here (for space reasons).

There are two possible reasons for the crash that I can think of:

1) I had recently installed a new version of SynthV Pro (plugin, but complex one that supports ARA)

2) I *think* I had a standalone instrument (Pianotech) running when I booted up Studio One. I usually never do this because it seems like asking for trouble but I think I forgot.

Studio One has been very stable for me recently apart from this.

 

[Ari]

"I did not use the default because it's usually recommended to use a dedicated drive for audio "

Whoever ever recommended this is wrong when it comes to applications. I can only recommend to always install pure applications in default paths. DAWs are very closely related to the operating system and also work hand in hand with data and feature exchange. It makes no sense at all, neither theoretically nor measurably, not to install an audio application on the system disk.

The situation is completely different with audio data, song data, recordings and soundsets. They can be located wherever they want.

 

[Lukas]

When all presets are gone, my first guess is usually that the settings have been reset - which also includes the User Data Folder (where songs, projects, macros, presets etc. are stored). Glad to hear that this was indeed the case here.

The situation is completely different with audio data, song data, recordings and soundsets. They can be located wherever they want.

I think that's what @madFloyd meant: Song data/audio data. Not the app installation.

 

[madFloyd]

"I did not use the default because it's usually recommended to use a dedicated drive for audio "

Whoever ever recommended this is wrong when it comes to applications. I can only recommend to always install pure applications in default paths. DAWs are very closely related to the operating system and also work hand in hand with data and feature exchange. It makes no sense at all, neither theoretically nor measurably, not to install an audio application on the system disk.

The situation is completely different with audio data, song data, recordings and soundsets. They can be located wherever they want.

Hi Ari,

That is what I was trying to say. Application and settings on the OS drive, but audio data on a separate drive.

Of course, the 'user' settings have to go where the songs are because there is only one path we can set.

 

[Davey]

It's things like the user MIDI devices and audio interface setup I'd like to be able to move onto my data drive. At present they live in %APPDATA%\PreSonus\Studio One 7 on the C drive and would be lost in the event of a drive failure. I have backups but you wouldn't want to restore the whole of that folder because lots of the stuff would need regenerating by a fresh installation so I'd be trying to pick and choose which files to restore which could cause problems if I screw something up.

I think of those files as part of my studio "definition" - controllers, interfaces etc so, for me, they should live in my user data folder. I have experimented with symlinks but it's a bit uncomfortable selectively doing so within that %APPDATA% directory tree.