ObjectDock Backups

Is there a way to backup ObjectDock?

After doing hours of work placing my own icons in ObjectDock I have finally found a need to back it up. I had to re-install everything and found I could not just drop a backup of the installation files into the installation folder to restore my settings. There must be a file somewhere. I checked for a file in my App Data folder, but found nothing there. I also have another older puter and wanted the same familiar settings and icons, but had to do the whole setup manually, because I couldn't figure out how to back it up for re-installation.

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bigbro.51

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DaveRI

Join Date 09/2003

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To re-install it from scratch you will either need to start with the original installation executable you recieved. or an archive you've created through Impulse. or a new download from Impulse. I suggest you make an archive from Impulse by going into Impulse, go to the "My Software" tab, right-click on the ObjectDock icon and select "Archive Application". That will create an archive you can restore from within Impulse, but just a basic archive, you will want to backup more. To see where that archive was created, click on the white box icon in the top left of Impulse, click on "Preferences", click on "Folders" in new window, look at "Archive File Location".

Read Reply #1 here for the rest. The guy rambles way too much but I think he got it covered.

https://forums.wincustomize.com/340154

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DaveRI

Join Date 09/2003

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Oh, and the easy thing you want to do frequently is use Object Dock's backup function from within ObectDock's "Configure"/"Themes" section. That'll save your current position references, icon references (but not the actual icon images), and theme references (but not the actual themes}. That way if you mess up your layout at some point you can just restore a previous layout. You can also create and save different layouts to switch between that way.

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