BackUp/Restore Question

[jdcollier1968]

Will the files that look like this restore a previous config of the program?

ApplicationConfig-2019-10-W41.json

[Scrxtchy]

They can, there are three different json files for a complete backup though. The History.xml is also used for storing the entire history of capture There's also an Export / Import option within the ShareX Application Settings where you can do this easily, it's a renamed zip file containing all four of these files

[jdcollier1968]

Using the import / export function I do not see a zipped file. Where would the exact location of this file be?

[Scrxtchy]

When you click the export button, it opens a Save as window for you to save the backup.sxb file to a specified location

[jdcollier1968]

I need to grab a back up from a previous date. I lost all my configs. How do I pull in the right files to restore my previous config?

[Scrxtchy]

If you still have them around somewhere, it's these 4 files (highlighted)

Put them into the Setting directory (usually Documents/ShareX, like in the screenshot) and ShareX should start using them

[jdcollier1968]

I obviously don't know what I am doing. I did what you said and I still seem to be doing something wrong. Maybe you can help and I can just reconfig. I have tons of those files you show above. I basically want to capture an image, resize it after capture, and then let the program upload it for me and then give me all the possible links ( forum linked image, direct link, etc.... there were several that showed up for the image just uploaded. Can you help me reconfig? I seem to be fine with my images being where they are supposed to be and history seems fine as well. It's just not behaving like I want it to after capture. Can't seem to figure this out.. Thanks so much in advance.

[Scrxtchy]

For resizing, you'd want to enter the task settings (for your workflow or the default screenshot action). You'll see in the under the Image section there's a item called Effects. Within here you can Image Effects Configuration from this area.

Resizing an item can be added from the effects area

Ensure you enable After capture tasks -> Add Image Effects for this to do anything

[jdcollier1968]

How do I get ShareX back to doing this? It what I use it for most.

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/445cf56982830498a901c63c1ab41ff7dcfbb5f2/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f6d6e75337764762e706e67

[Scrxtchy]

Enable this

[jdcollier1968]

I did as you said and this is still happening after capture. Can't figure this out. I am logged in my host.

[jdcollier1968]

tries to restore things from a back up file and I got this error.

[Scrxtchy]

Looks like a corrupted zip file

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tries to restore things from a back up file and I got this error.

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[jdcollier1968]

Where is this zip file? I do not see one/ I pulled in a json file

[Scrxtchy]

If you're doing a json file, you'd have to put them into My Documents/ShareX directly

[jdcollier1968]

This is what is in the folder... still nothing seems to be working..

[Scrxtchy]

🤔 I'm not sure then

[jdcollier1968]

This program has gotten way to complicated.

[jdcollier1968]

trying to accomplish an outcome like this?

[Scrxtchy]

You had it right, but you uploaded it as a file earlier, so it was uploaded to dropbox.

If it was uploaded to imgur, you would have had the correct window with the share options

[jdcollier1968]

That's just a screen shot from the web. It's not mine. I used to be able to do this a couple of weeks ago.

[Scrxtchy]

Well I can't help you if you're not doing anything with my advice, instead it just wastes time

[jdcollier1968]

Here's the thing. This program crapped out about a week ago and lost all the settings. I still have a slew of XML, JSON, and HOTKEY CONFIG files. I would imagine the right combo of the three files placed strategically where they need to go might rescue this mess. Someone said earlier about a zip file. What zip file? That's where we are right now. Maybe your helping me salvage my original config from two weeks ago from the files in this location Documents\ShareX\Backup is a place to start.

[Scrxtchy]

You can only get the backup zip file from a working version of Sharex, if you have a backup of the old json/history files, you can use replace the current sharex files with those from the backup directly. The archive just allows you to use a GUI to do this

[jdcollier1968]

where is the zip file?

[Scrxtchy]

You can only get the backup zip file from a working version of Sharex

When you click the export button, it opens a Save as window for you to save the backup.sxb file to a specified location

If you've done neither of this, you don't have one

[Jaex]

You just need to copy those backup json files to its original place and rename those files to be same as current setting files. But only do this when ShareX is not running, otherwise it won't work.

[jdcollier1968]

That did not work. Still does not work like it did two weeks ago.