# Game (or PC) crashed lost settings **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [June 10, 2022, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/game-or-pc-crashed-lost-settings/366518 "2022-06-10T06:18:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robert\_Cras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/robert_cras/32/454568_2.png) [@Robert\_Cras](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Robert_Cras)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/game-or-pc-crashed-lost-settings/366518/1 "2022-06-10T06:18:18Z")
Hi, My PC or the game crashed during playing and when I rebooted I lost ALL my settings in the game. Is there a way to get them back (sidebar, channels, etc) ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 7:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/game-or-pc-crashed-lost-settings/366518/2 "2022-06-10T07:15:02Z")
As far as I know there is not unless you backed them up beforehand or have them on a different machine if you are running EVE on several machines as they are not stored server-side so each client has its own settings stored locally. At least that is how I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Aisha\_Katalen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aisha_katalen/32/387724_2.png) [@Aisha\_Katalen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aisha_Katalen)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 9:11am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/game-or-pc-crashed-lost-settings/366518/3 "2022-06-10T09:11:53Z")
If you have other characters (preferably on a different account) check if they are still ok. If they are you can copy over those account and character settings to the one that messed up. It’s a bit of a faff to do it manually but if you know how it takes 15 seconds. So see if there’s a character on a different account that is still ok, reply here and I’ll explain to you how to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Altara\_Zemara](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/altara_zemara/32/390110_2.png) [@Altara\_Zemara](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Altara_Zemara)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/game-or-pc-crashed-lost-settings/366518/4 "2022-06-10T10:43:43Z")
> [@Robert\_Cras](#): > > Is there a way to get them back (sidebar, channels, etc) Nope. Apparently in 19 years no dev ever thought to simply add a ‘save settings’ function to the UI. Everything else gets saved, but not one’s sidebar, Overview, etc. And it is a pain in the proverbial having to find some remote spot in space to reset it all, as much of it you can’t do in dock. C’mon CCP…it should be a 5 minute job to add a ‘save settings’ function and a ‘load settings’ option for re-loading. ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Cras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/robert_cras/32/454568_2.png) [@Robert\_Cras](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Robert_Cras)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 7:20am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/game-or-pc-crashed-lost-settings/366518/5 "2022-06-29T07:20:17Z")
I now have the weird thing that my chats, people and places window, logs, which I have in 1 window are in an order I don’t like. After rearranging them it’s ok. Next time I start up the game, they in the old (wrong) order again. ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/game-or-pc-crashed-lost-settings/366518/6 "2022-07-02T14:23:26Z")
Have the same. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_Saki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/alice_saki/32/486142_2.png) [@Alice\_Saki](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Alice_Saki)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/game-or-pc-crashed-lost-settings/366518/7 "2022-07-03T05:51:38Z")
Just putting it out there, it took them 10 years to add a Loot All button xD ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/game-or-pc-crashed-lost-settings/366518/8 "2022-10-01T05:52:11Z")
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