This should be able to be done so much easier, Steinberg should provide a management utility that looks like ‘Import Tracks to Project’, where a user could pick and choose which preferences to import/transfer.
For example,
-‘MediaBay Favorites’ wasn’t even listed.
-Drumaps I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist, it’s up to the user to manually save them and reimport them per projet (they aren’t global)
-I can’t find where my custom ‘Plugin Collections’ organizational lists are
This is how the utility would work,
Open up Cubase
go to Preferences Import Utility
User selects an AppData directory of either a previous version they’ve installed on their computer, or a backup directory they did
A list of all the preferences available in that directory unfolds
the user check marks what preferences they want to transfer
Hit enter, Cubase asks, “Create Backup of Current Preferences?”, Yes
Cubase creates backup to a described location and then reboots Cubase with the new preferences installed
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Also in this utility should be Error Checking, because sometimes these .xmls become corrupt during crashes and a huge amount of data gets dumped into them which then results in either Cubase not being able to start, or best case scenario, very slow to start.
For example, one crash I had resulted in my controlroomsetup xml to becomes some 800mb in size.
Agree completely. I had to make a document reminding myself of which xlm docs need to be saved and from where. And also which does what etc. And then remind myself to do backups and date and organise them all. It all seems a bit much work like I’m having to be a car mechanic or something.
I can only imagine what newbies would make of having to manage all this. I’m sure other daws don’t have all this under the hood maintenance shenanigans
What would be the difference between doing this individually and using the OS built-in backup to back up the User Settings Folder? (It’s not designed to be managed like this.)
To be clear, this FR should simply be, Documentation – update help center documents
could be different set ups in which you want some things same and others not. like laptop vs desktop.
but also, sometimes those xmls get weird and get corrupt data dumped into them until they are 500mb in size and then Cubase doesn’t load.
And to just bring everything to one focal point. My Documents, AppData>Cubase, etc into one housing, and then when re-importing you are breaking things out of that housing back to their individual spots. theres so many spots and things.