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March 26, 2004 12:21:38 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
I'm about to reformat my hard drive and reinstall everything. Before I do so, I want to make sure I have backed up everything. As it stands, Stardock's products are the only thing left on my checklist.

I recall hearing once that there was an automated way to archive all the Stardock programs I had downloaded, but I don't remember how. Would someone point me in the right direction please?
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Reply #1 March 26, 2004 12:25:47 AM
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SDC/right click/download and archive all
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Reply #2 March 26, 2004 4:12:44 PM
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I tried that, and it started to redownload everything. As I'm not on dial-up at home that's an enormous amount of time it was about to tie up my connection for.

I tried going to campus and installing SDC there, but the install stopped because I didn't have write permission for some dll file.

Is there a zipped archive I can download?
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Reply #3 March 26, 2004 4:54:39 PM
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It doesn't take too long, but you can right-click each proggie listed in SDC and Archive Application => Selected App or Entire App with Skins

Better option and long term solution is to get a second hard drive and a program like Drive Image and you can backup everything fairly easily and quickly
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Reply #4 March 28, 2004 2:29:19 PM
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A question about archiving, what do each of the following options do?

* Archive production applications
* Archive pre-release applications
* Archive application modules
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Reply #5 March 28, 2004 6:45:41 PM
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Not sure I don't have those options with SDC. I'm using Ver. 1.30.264, build: 46
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Reply #6 March 28, 2004 7:54:04 PM
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* Archive production applications


This archives the 'official' release versions..

* Archive pre-release applications


This archives Beta & Alpha versions...

* Archive application modules


This archives any additional modules that come wiht a particular app (eg skins or themes etc)

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Reply #7 March 28, 2004 8:02:10 PM
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I don't have those options either.....



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Reply #8 March 28, 2004 8:53:37 PM
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That's because Aqua is using version 1.20.238 build 35....




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Reply #9 March 28, 2004 11:16:47 PM
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I upgraded to SDC Ver. 1.30.258, build: 44 and got those options again.

I was able archive most of it, but when it got down to TweakShell it threw the following error:

There was an error installing TweakShell. The following error occurred:
Expires: 14 September 2004
Result: Installation failed
Would you like to view the installation log file?


When I went to go view the log file I got the following:
File not found, would you like to create a new one?

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Reply #10 March 28, 2004 11:21:15 PM
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Another question: where is it storing all the archived stuff?
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Reply #11 March 28, 2004 11:24:02 PM
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Got another error just now:

There was an error installing Object Sweeper. The following error occurred:

Downloaded: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\backup\osw.zip (attempt: 3 - http error -5)
Result: Installation Failed

Would you like to view the installation log file?


and like before, there was no log file.
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Reply #12 March 29, 2004 5:25:52 AM
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Hi there aqua, thats a long time since I have seen you arround here...
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Reply #13 March 29, 2004 5:33:26 AM
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You can also go to the Stardock folder in explorer and copy any themes folders from there for which ever programs you have. That's what I do, may take a bit depending on how many there are to copy. But I have had 2 hard drives go in the last 3 months, copying them makes it alot easier to put them back.
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Reply #14 March 29, 2004 11:32:22 AM
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Hello Styl I'm surprised you've remembered me. I've been hanging around the 3DNA and SCN forums for a while.

Oracle - I finally ended up copying the entire Stardock folder to my backup hard drive.
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