Trying to go back to EVE Online with technical issues, I’ve tried to reinstall the game and, obviously, I’ve lost everyting about my configurations (UI positions, specific overview, notes, etc.).
I hope I have either old directories and/or a backup somewhere, but I can’t find where configuration directories and files were located on my computer…
(I had a look to Client Preferences and Settings Backup - EVE University Wiki and understood that maybe it was in %LOCALAPPDATA%\CCP\EVE\ but there’s a mix of old and new files, and I’m afraid that the important ones have been overwritten during reinstallation…)
Do you know?
What you are looking for is a folder called “Settings_Default” within you will find a mess of .DAT files. I never used the "%LOCALAPPDATA%\CCP\EVE" to find them. I did an explorer file search for; core_char*.dat and included hidden system folders too. Maybe you can find duplicates using the file search?
As far as I can tell you, core_char*.dat is your character’s personal settings and core_user*.dat is your account settings. When I finally got this interface looking readable by my standards, I made a backup of all the files in the Settings Default. I placed this new backup in my documents and zipped it, just to prevent the program from tampering with it. When they changed the launcher my settings were toast. I extracted that zip file and wrote over the folder, but some hardware settings didn’t work, those I had to reset manually.
.dat files in “Settings_Default” directories seem to definitely be what I’m looking for, thank you I still have different directories like that, each actually corresponding to a different installation of the game in time… and backups. Then I believe I will solve my issue.
PS: it is too bad that we can’t read and modify everyhting in those .dat files by the way…
I still have different directories like that, each actually corresponding to a different installation of the game in time… and backups. Then I believe I will solve my issue.