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We’ve added a Restore feature to our Cubase Backup and created a new topic for it:
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You’re a saint!
This is a great helper! 
Shouldn’t the following path be be included? Cause in my case this is also a treasure chest with all Cubase custom plugin presets, custom drum kits, custom build Halion 7 instruments:
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\VST3 Presets\Steinberg Media Technologies
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Good news!
We’ve added a Restore feature to our Cubase Backup and created a new topic for it:
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Yes and no. Technically, it would be feasible, otherwise this folder contains VST3 presets from all Steinberg applications, including e.g. WaveLab. Therefore, backing up all these presets would strictly speaking exceed the scope of a Cubase backup. That would be going in the direction of a Steinberg Backup then (OMG! 
) … But since the folder isn’t too big, I’ll add it in the next version anyway.
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Thank you very much ASM, greatly appreciated little helper. 
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Good news!
We’ve added a Restore feature to our Cubase Backup and created a new topic for it:
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Thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot @ASM !!
This is a real time saver for someone who regularly needs to switch between systems. I had no idea how handy such a script actually is until now… 
Following your suggestion, I have started to tweak the script so that it perfectly meets my needs. Thanks to your pristine documentation it was easy to adapt - wonderful! So far I have added Profiles and a few subfolders. I will also add MediaBay and a couple of 3rd party preset folders like UAD, Soundtoys and alikes. Almost done, works like a charm.
Thanks again @ASM
Also, thanks to @Thor.HOG for bringing up the idea by writing such a Backup Script for Macs .
The forum is always a good place to learn something new
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Good news!
We’ve added a Restore feature to our Cubase Backup and created a new topic for it:
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Since you guys are backing up the VST images, I wanted to remind folks that the “snapshot” feature for VST image thumbnail creation can consume non-trivial amounts of RAM as Cubendo loads the entire, raw image into memory before scaling it to fit in the browser:
In that post I outline a simple automator script I use to take the folder input from a Finder operation and proportionally scale all images to 480. This operation retains the original GUID-based filenames and replaces them with pre-scaled images that take up significantly less RAM. After going through and generating many different VST snapshots for thumbnail generation, the resultant files resulted in over 2gig of additional RAM being consumed just for the images, as Cubase loads these into RAM when you view them and doesn’t release them again (based on my tests).
Since you guys are providing these utilities for Windows folks, I thought it was worth a mention that you may want to whip up a PowerShell script to scale images as well for people who are unaware that they are potentially wasting valuable RAM on large source image snapshots.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Currently, the RAM usage shows no significant difference between present and absent image files in the VST Thumbnails folder. The same applies whether the images are displayed in Cubase right zone or not. There might be differences between Mac and Windows. In any case, it’s something worth investigating further.
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Example: 439 VST Thumbnails here requiring 260 MB. It is quite a lot, but for me it’s ok, knowing everything gets backed up.
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Indeed - if using Retina displays, the snapshot images could be significantly larger. There are multiple dependencies on such an operation, so YMMV. It makes sense to me to just standardize on a set scale so as to obviate general concern. “Best practices” and all that
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