Recovering from corrupt vrestore.xml

[pbrightly]

I rebooted this morning and coming back, Slick said my vrestore was corrupt "Wanna restore??".  Not sure if I'm an idiot for it, but I said "sure".  I lost all my macros, colors, key defs, alias..  Is there another backup I'm missing?  I guess it's time to rebuild.

I've got about 15 macro files (from over the last 30 years), which I loaded from vusrmods.e.
Got my keys back from keydefs.e.

- Where is my font config?  I use IBM Plex Mono Smbld across the board.  Not a big deal, I reconfigured it.
- Where are my custom colors stored?  I had a very custom color config.
- How about my alias?  I've got a few hundred.  I see my old alias file.  Any way to import that?

I saw a faq on exporting all options. But I'd like a list of key files I should backup for something like this.

[Clark]

auto-restore (vrestore.xml/vrestore.slk) does not  effect what's stored in user.cfg.xml which is most of your configuration changes. vrestore stores previous session information (tool windows/tool bar layouts, debug session info, bookmarks, window layouts, files to auto restore and settings for those loaded files).

Please post if you can your trashed vrestore.xml (or vrestore.slk if you don't have vrestore.xml).

Here's what I recommend:

* Delete vrestore.xml and vrestore.slk if they exist.
* Start SlickEdit and check your fonts, colors profiles, aliases, etc.
* If your config is messed up, edit user.cfg.xml. Then use File>Backup History for user.cfg.xml and restore it to a previous version. SlickEdit's keeps Backup History on user.cfg.xml because it's very important. vrestore.xml/vrestore.slk isn't that important.

If your macro files no longer exist on your hard disk, that's not a SlickEdit issue. Use Backup History to restore them. The most recent version would correspond to your last save.

[pbrightly]

The bad news is, there were 3 backup versions listed.  They were corrupt.  I need to run a scan on my disk -- I've found other files that look the same.  All null bytes.

The good news is, I'm very lucky. I'd copied my config to my personal computer several months ago, and it's pretty similar. Got most of my config back. Happy happy.

Macros were  never in danger. I've always backed those up.  Now I know another file to backup!

[pbrightly]

PS. Now that I'm aware of it, I've also utilized the Tools->Options->Export all options.  Good thing to have.