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Location of shortcut key settings?, Where are the shortcut key settings stored?
 
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On one of my computers, The Bat (v9.3.2) reverts all my customizations every once in a while. So all the toolbars and shortcut keys go back to the defaults. It looks like tbuser.def stores shortcut keys, and I've made a backup after changing keys. When all the settings revert, this tbuser.def is back to default. If I copy my backup file over this, it doesn't help. All the keys are still default (not what I changed them to).

Anyone have an idea of how I can backup/restore my configuration and shortcut keys? Or why this is happening?

Thanks
 
 
 
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As I understand it, tbuser.def was replaced by userdef.xml as of The Bat! v9.0.6.
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Daniel, I think they may have gone back from userdef.xml to tbuser.def somewhere between V9-1-18 and V9-3-4.  At least that is my experience with regard to toolbar configurations.  When I make changes to them in V9-3-4, tbuser.def is being updated.

Ron
 
 
 
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Ronz, you're right. I don't have a userdef.xml at all, and tbuser.def gets updated if I make changes to configuration. Unfortunately, I'm still not sure why that file gets rewritten sometimes. I haven't figured out any consistent pattern or behavior that might trigger it.
 
 
 
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Looking at some of the others posts in the forum, I'll try upgrading to 9.3.4 and see if that contains a fix for this problem.
 
 
 
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Warner, could it be that the size of your TBUSER.DEF file exceeds 500 KB? In that case it would be renamed *.bak and a new (default) version would be created during start-up.
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Daniel van Rooijen wrote:
Warner, could it be that the size of your TBUSER.DEF file exceeds 500 KB? In that case it would be renamed *.bak and a new (default) version would be created during start-up.
The file is 3K, so that shouldn't be the problem. I suppose it's possible that something in it is malformed or incorrect, but it was all generated by The Bat! itself. I never modified it directly. Anyway, I'll report after I try 9.3.4.
 
 
 
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It's curious why restoring your backup of didn't bring your customizations back.  It makes one wonder if changes in that file aren't connected with some changes in configuration files elsewhere.  I don't customize shortcut keys, but I've had a few other changes I've made disappear on rare occasions.  I am now using a software backup/versioning product to monitor and record changes to the small files in the top-level mail directory folder, including tbuser.def.  I'm hoping I'll have better information if it happens again.  
 
 
 
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That would be great. I'll be very interested to see your results.
 
 
 
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