i know what i m doing so this dialog simply is a waste of time. i couldnt find a global setting where to disable this popup/dialog. if someone knows where to find it pls enlighten me. fingers crossed this setting is avail . thx
Hi,
If you mean the same dialog I have in mind, you can enable the āPlease, donāt ask againā option.
we are talking a different dialog then since that option doesnt show. to clarify things: i simply want to overwrite an existing preset of ANY of my plugins. i first click āsave presetā in the pluginās āupside down triangleā top row. then i left click/chose the preset i wanna overwrite in the plugins presets menu and then click āokā and then this annoying dialog will pop up. the dialog says āfile exists!ā and offers only 3 options: overwrite, cancel, assign unique name. i wanna overwrite by default so the dialog wont pop up no more
Hi,
I see, this is other dialog. Iām not aware of the way, how to avoid this confirmation dialog.
so it seems there is no setting for this as i assumed. why does steiny assume users r that high when producing so they dunno what they r doing/where they r clicking 
Judging by many of the questions in this forum and elsewhere, for many users that seems a correct assumption.
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word ;). still cant believe steiny forgot to make a setting for the few users with a brain though
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To be fair, even the most brainy and focused among us have probably experienced that āuh-ohā moment that happens when we just did something stupid that we didnāt intend to actually do but did anyway because we were not concentrating for a little moment and now we have just overwritten the work of six hours.
The problem is that all these āAre you sure?ā dialogs are not the solution to these situations because we are usually so annoyed by them that we acknowledge them without thinking all the time.
The only solution is making frequent backups.
A really good solution would be having a filesystem that does have automatic versioning for files (preferably configurable per directory). Sadly, none of the current mainstream operating system support thisā¦
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Or just use your normal backup program and add a daily incremental backup
- of the Steinberg Preferences Folder
- of the Steinberg Installation folder
- of Plugin preset folders (usually in āDocumentsā on Windows
This way nothing gets lost and you dont need a lot of disk space either.
Sure, thatās what I meant, make regular backups . Although I consider the Steinberg installation folder not backup-worthy, Documents is more important, with āVST3 presetsā, āSteinbergā and plugin folders. And for whatās it worth, just add a full image backup, disks are cheap! 
I backup the installation folder as well, because once I did a maintenance update, which was not working and I could easily go back by replacing the installation folder from a backup I made a day before! Now you can easily reinstall older versions, so that wouldnāt be necessary anymore in theory.
Yes a full image backup is standard procedure (I hope) for everyone! But if you do that one weekly it should be fine I guess 