Beersmith and or PC help

[Tony]

Hi all
day before yesterday when I opened Beersmith it opened as if it had just been installed.. no idea why. Hadn't changed any settings or user privileges. Managed to eventually find my user key (as it was asking for it) and when I open it, none of my recipes appear - I've lost them all!

Does anyone know where they may be stored on vista? I've looked in the Beersmith folder in the programme files folder but nothing doing. I've lost all the recipes from the past two years!

All help/pointers gratefully received!

 

[Muddydisco]

NO NO NO!! What a bummer. I'm going to export all mine recipes now into a seperate save place, then have a look at what I can find for you, sounds like a vista Problem :hmm:

 

[Muddydisco]

Go to beersmith, click on File then Recover table is there anything in the box? Old files of backed up recipes etc on different dates???

 

[markp]

Sorry I can't help with this problem.
But I will be backing up my recipes tonight.....thanks for the heads up :thumb:

 

[Tony]

Hi folks
yes .. I should have said - if you use Beersmith then backup now!

I've tried the 'recover table' and I got my first 4 brews back which is when I did the last backup. Think I'm stuffed!

I emailed Brad at Beersmith and he said to change user preferences and recover but this makes no difference.

Chalk another one up to Vista!

 

[Muddydisco]

Have you tried rolling back vista to a restore point before this happened?

 

[Tony]

Hmmm ... yes, I did think of that - have you had any experience of doing that?

 

[Muddydisco]

Not on vista but on Xp and win 7 and worked fine, make sure you have saved everything then restore it back a couple of days. worked for me when I had programs suddenly stop working. I'm not a major computer nerd but I get by, but then again I did sidestep Vista :lol:

 

[Tony]

Stop Press... Brad from Beersmith emailed me back with instructions as to how to get the recipe.bak files (via 'hidden files' and 'compatability files'). Took me a fair bit of tinkering to get the software to save the recipes after closing and reopening - but all is well now! Thanks to those above!

Tony
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[Dieseljockey]

What a bugger Tony ....as MD said try restore...I've lost work & been lucky to find it when I've gone back a week..

I had an old laptop that run Vista lockup could not do anything with it...I had loads of photos-music-and legal stuff (divorce) on it.. :twisted:
So had to get a new laptop..then looked into how to download all that I wanted off the old one...the answer..went to Maplins got a hub that takes all hard drives. Strip the old H/Drive out pop in the hub..hey presto every thing I wanted right there on the screen..easy...so copy to the new pc and now use the old H/D for backup.

I know this don't help when files go tits-up...but we all think "no need to backup" :nono: :nono:
Silly Q...do you have any old recipes scribbled down anywhere??? :cry:

 

[Dieseljockey]

:clap: :clap: :clap:

A result.....now backup... :lol: :lol:

 

[Tony]

:thumb:
Already have.... all recipes now backed up!

Now .. I wonder if I should bother backing anything else up?

 

[snail59]

Now .. I wonder if I should bother backing anything else up?

Back everything up except the toilet :rofl:

Pleased you have found a solution :clap: Surely you have posted and shared all your recipes with all your friends on here so there should be no need for back up files unless your holding back with some top secret ones :grin:

 

[Tony]

Surely you have posted and shared all your recipes with all your friends on here so there should be no need for back up files unless your holding back with some top secret ones :grin:

:lol:

Yes, I think all the once from the past year or so are on here but there were quite a few from before then ... no secret ones Snail, my creations belong to the world!
:rofl: :rofl:

 

[Muddydisco]

Good to hear your back Tony, you going to share the secert as to where they are hidden?

 

[Tony]

:
Yes, good point! I'll post Brad's email here as I'm sure he won't mind (credit and thanks go to him) Remember this is for Vista!

By default BeerSmith is in the "C:\Program Files\BeerSmith" directory.

However under Vista you may also have a "Compatibility files" directory that shows up on the toolbar when you go to the BeerSmith directory. This is where your data and the opts file likely lives. The full path to the compatibility diectory is: C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\BeerSmith

where {USERNAME} is your login name for Vista/Win 7.

Note that on many systems this is a hidden/system directory which will not show up unless you go into the options for Windows file explorer and set it to show hidden/system files.

 

[crisparmour]

I hope none of you ever have a hard drive die on you. I have had a couple expire over the years and it can cause extreme anguish if you don't have all your data files safely copied to another drive or a CD or DVD. Unlike the drive in Diesel's laptop your drive can screw up completely so never leave it to chance.

Take a look at what you have on your PC and ask yourself if you have another copy elsewhere. if not, backup while you can and remember to do it regularly.

 

[Aleman]

I hope none of you ever have a hard drive die on you.

Lost three at Christmas Last year . . .luckily 2 of them went initially which took the RAID down from RAID 10 to RAID 1 . . . I recovered the data from that array to another Hard Drive. Then the third drive failed . . .oh well .. . New drives bought configured, data copied on . . .off and running again.


. . . . Oh and yes I also have a 2GB NAS Box to backup To . . .with 2x2GB external USB Devices to backup the NAS Box . . . . . . Swapped weekly One at work one at home.

And all my photography files go from Flash Card . . .to Internal RAID . . .Backup to DVD . . . Copied to NAS Box . . . Promash Recipes also sit on a USB Flash Disk and exist on NAS/Flash/ Several Computers.

I may be paranoid . . . . but that doesn't mean they are not out to get me!

 

[crisparmour]

Perhaps you should consider backing up to another planet, Aleman, in case of an Irish Sea tsunami, Asteroid or other unthinkable disaster.

 

[Titch]

i use online backups

carbonite is great

if allowed i can referrer people it might get me an extra month or so

unlimited backups for around £35 a year