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Bug? All my mod blueprints are gone.

Open Fing3rz opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

All of the mods I registered in the blueprint tab are still there but all the engram entries inside them are gone. This is the second time this happened. I can't pinpoint the cause. I thought it might be ccleaner being naughty but I just tested it and it's not. The only other thing I can think of is when I update Beacon to a new version? Where does Beacon store this information?

Fing3rz avatar Sep 01 '21 05:09 Fing3rz

There are two places that support each other, both inside %AppData%\The ZAZ\Beacon. The Library.SQLite database is the active storage. They all go into the engrams table. When this data changes, it is also backed up to your cloud account, which can be found in the Cloud folder. A subfolder will exist for your user, and inside that is a Blueprints.json file. That file matches exactly what you would get using the Export button in Beacon. Everything in that cloud folder gets synced between devices, which is used to update the database on each device.

When a Beacon update needs to change the database schema, the database is recreated empty, and all the data imported back in from the official sources and your cloud storage.

Given what you describe, it sounds like there may be an issue with the import and export logic, though I haven’t experienced it myself. I will be taking a closer look though.

thommcgrath avatar Sep 01 '21 05:09 thommcgrath

I noticed after looking around in that folder, there were saves for two profiles and a merged identity folder. Guessing one was my free/guest account and one is my paid account. Not sure if that's useful. Gonna start backing up that whole directory after I finish my sessions just in case. =)

Fing3rz avatar Sep 01 '21 09:09 Fing3rz