HexChat update 2.12.0 just deleted all my settings and logs...
reddit / irc

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Slaynie · 2016-04-22 15:04

~~Time to look for a new client. Yes, I'm just ranting.~~

edit: Looks like I'm just stupid and had enabled portable mode. Thanks
/u/TingPing.

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blueskin · 2016-04-22 15:38

Backups, people.

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[deleted] · 2016-04-22 18:11

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TingPing · 2016-04-22 22:38

I'm sure its too late for you to care. But to clarify HexChat's
installer doesn't touch configs (why would it) and it makes no logical
sense for HexChat to ever delete a file while running. So while I
don't doubt you lost files I think it is a more complex issue than
"hexchat deleted my logs"...

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joedonut · 2016-04-23 01:22

Hmm.  Never saw such behaviour.  What OS?  Where did the update come
from?  How did you perform the update?




Finally, did you manually look for the configuration and logged data?

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Slaynie · 2016-04-23 05:32

Config files are in AppData/Roaming. Not sure what happened right
after the update, but after I run the application after install (with
the option on last installer screen), my settings were gone. I thought
OK, maybe they changed something in settings, so I just manually
connected (Nickname was still there, does it take it from windows? I
have the same account name in windows).

Then I noticed I didn't have any logs, so I checked
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Hexchat\ and all the files there were
new (logs from different channels, which I haven't connected to, were
missing as well)

Just to be sure, I searched the whole C drive for HexChat, but nothing
else came up.

Using Windows 10 pro x64, Hexchat is installed in D:\Program Files\ ,
installer was downloaded from the prompt inside application. The one
thing I noticed was that after opening the installer, it wanted to
install to C:\, so I changed it to D:\. It has warned me that the
folder already exists, but I still clicked continue (some programs do
this with every update).

This wasn't the first update I have used while using Hexchat.

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Slaynie · 2016-04-23 05:34

Don't want to copy/paste it again, so if you want to know the answer
to your questions, look in the thread, I have written is as a response
to developer.

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TingPing · 2016-04-23 10:35

Sure you were not running portable-mode previously?

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Slaynie · 2016-04-23 11:32

Now I feel really stupid. Found the config files in installation
directory. Now the weird thing is that I don't put portable programs
in "Program files". And I'm pretty damn sure I had HexChat listed
among installed programs in "Uninstall or change a program".

Is it possible to activate portable mode after installation? Or did
the old installer also create an uninstall entry even in portable
mode?

Not sure how this happened, but thanks, gonna edit OP post, should I
also delete this thread?

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TingPing · 2016-04-23 11:43

> Is it possible to activate portable mode after installation?

Well not on accident, a file existing named `portable-mode` will
toggle it.

> Or did the old installer also create an uninstall entry even in
portable mode?

It should not.

Anyway glad it was sorted out.

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iandrewc · 2016-05-26 13:59

Thank you, fixed my problem as well.