Like this if OBS has ever imploded on you and ruined your life. EDIT: For anyone who's wondering why OBS is no longer saving any changes to their scenes, the reason is because you don't have write access to your C:\Program Files\ folder. This solution to this is to (A) run OBS in admin mode (thus giving you write access) or (B) moving OBS out of your C:\Program Files\ directory entirely. I highly advise that you do (B) and move OBS into a cloud storage solution like Google Drive or Dropbox.
Well, now i got this Error msg: "Failed to get text from remote : The requested URL returned error : 404 Not Found" and cant connect my Twitch account... already reinstalled everything
I switched over to obs portable mode and everything seemed to be working fine, until I changed a few things in my scenes. now whenever I close and reopen obs none of the changes I made are there. Changes appear to be saving to my old roaming folder instead of the new config folder. I have to go back to my roaming folder and copy over the obs-studio folder into the new config folder inside of obs portable every time I change something. is there a way to make obs save to the new config folder instead of the old roaming obs-studio folder??
So I started doing this tutorial and my obs started crashing, be sure to have a back up of everything before doing this tutorial so you don't lose tons of hours
I have watched so many of your videos, they’ve all taught me something! The last video I watched I was thinking to myself how the hell do you keep coming up with content? Not only that but how was it still so relevant and helpful so many years and videos later?! Thank you Nutty, you’re amazing please never stop posting! 🥺🥰
To access quickly to the APPDATA folder, here's a fast shortcut with your keyboard: WIN+R to fire up RUN, then type " %APPDATA% " (without quotes) and press enter. In this way you will avoid confusion, because the folder is hided by default. Enjoy! P.S. Nutty is the NUTS!
so i tried this too and got the same problem but i figured out what the problem was (for me at least) and hopefully it works for you all too. i created the file just like nutty, did not work - then i deleted the ".txt" so the file name is "obs_portable_mode" without the ".txt" and it works now - it just opened a blank OBS thingy and i am now continuing with the video (just thought because i was looking at comments for a solution earlier that i write this here) - hope it works! :)
So i made the config as instructed and then upgraded to OBS 30 and the config file is in there but OBS is loading as if its a brand new install and none of my settings are applying. I'm not sure what I did wrong.
Couldn't you just backup your OBS-Studio folder and then replace it after If needed. ? Or in my case, let's say I wanted to do a clean install of Windows 11, then i would install OBS as normal, then delete that folder, then copy the backup folder and paste it in the same place as the deleted folder ?
My OBS didn't work at first time and I was like "well.. fuck ಠ_ಠ " Then I copied and pasted again the folder and I worked. That was just a quick mini heart attack here
Nutty i need a tutorial on how to un portable obs, i just did this portable tutorial to save my settings after a hardware issues. is theres a way to put it back on windows at it was in the past?
It's basically the standard to store settings in AppData. It basically allows you to reinstall programs and keep your data. Personally I like my programs to be portable wherever possible so I have full control over where all my data is.
So all this script seemed to do currently is copy my system32 and ruin my obs setup, didnt use anything but the default. Guess it did technicly backup something
why it has to be so complicated to simply save and restore your whole obs? missing assets cause new pc new location. AI shouldn't be that dumb in 2024.
When I create the text file, drop it into the obs-studio folder then run obs. OBS wont run and instead I get a pop up that says error could not create folder "config"
great video and very useful scripts, thank you. one thing to point out is that if "create-backup" script to be run as a scheduled task, then path to the portable obs folder needs to be specied in ":: Zip folders" section (to replace "*"). if not, it zips system32 folder instead :)
Thank you for the detailed explanation! I know I'll be crucified for this question... but can you do anything similar on a Mac? Aaaaand... can you "sync" or move these OBS settings somehow (USB key, GDrive, anything) between Windows and Mac? (I am starting to assemble a more portable setup on my Mac laptop in addition to the Windows main one and searching for options.)
Thanks dastardly Dave for sending this to me sassily, after I spent 9 hours rebuilding obs yesterday. At least I’ll never have to go through that again 😅
4:15 yeahhhh about that lol. Thankfully it was a fresh install anyways, so I just have to recreate the most basic of basic setup stuff. Every single time I would boot up OBS it would act as a new install. But damn why can't it be easier to just create a simple backup? Edit: So oddly enough I attempted to delete the obs folder, and move the backup zip to where the regular OBS folder was. At first I couldn't open it. So I attempted to reinstall it. Once it reinstalled it applied my settings back into the appdata folder and my settings are saved >.> I have no idea what has happened but I'll take it for now lol
Is there an easy way to get a list of all asset files and their current location? I would happily do the manual process of saving to the asset folder as a backup and then always use that folder moving forward
You gave me a heart attack, _good thing you ran away_ until I found that it just defaulted to an empty profile and empty scene collection and the real stuff was still there
This entirely destroyed my OBS. I entered the directory for the create-backup script to C:\Program Files\obs-studio as you told and the script only backed some AMD Drivers and other stuff on my C Drive eventually reaching 2GB, although my OBS Folder is only 400mb When afterwards trying to open OBS in admin Mode, everything was nuked and it reloaded a new instance of OBS asking me if i wanted to stream or record :O All gone
I have a problem with this method, everytime that OBS is opened I need to login into the chat, everytime. A friend help me with my configuration so sometimes he opens my obs from his computer (we work with a dedicated NAS and Syncthing) if that helps
I did this and it worked but I lost the multi stream rtmp dock, couldn't get it back. Then I would remove the 'obs_portable_mode' blank folder out of the files and it would put the multi stream rtmp back, however, I would have a brand new OBS, everything else lost. Idk what to do besides wipe it all and start fresh
Oh, ty, I already had my OBS settings backed up but you teached me about the portable mode which is better than backing the files. I don't need the script. That's on another hard drive now, so I SHOULD be good, if that hard drive don't break. I'm unable to find how to save my Streamlabs settings now mmhhhh, maybe the files are already in the main folder, in the other hard drive and not in C: ?
@6:11 I removed the pause function, since I just want it to close when it's done. I've also setup a multifunction on my stream deck, first open the cleanup file, then wake 2 seconds, then run the backup file. Thanks for this.
Thank you so much! I am installing a new motherboard and CPU and needing to do a clean windows install. I was able to use your method and moved all my assets in to the OBS directory and am able to back everything up at once now. Hopefully I can just move my OBS to the new windows install and everything will work perfectly!
The AppData-folder might be hidden, it gave me half a heartattack. Try this in that case: To open the AppData folder on Windows 10, 8 & 7: Open File Explorer/Windows Explorer Type %AppData% into the address bar and hit enter Navigate to the required folder (Roaming or Local)
Another thing that I don’t know if he mentions in this video is that you’ll either have to start OBS as an adminstrator after this, or move the OBS-folder out of ’program files’ folder, to C: preferably. Otherwise it won’t save when you make any changes in OBS.
Alright, I've been streaming for over a year now and haven't "had" to back-up OBS yet. I copied the .txt file over to my obs studio folder, but it didn't reset my OBS or create the config file. Wondering if I did something incorrectly, Windows 10. Thanks
Either (1) run OBS as admin so you get write permissions in your Program Files folder or (2) pull your entire OBS folder out of Program Files where you *do* have write permissions (which was the entire point of making OBS portable). Highly recommend you do the second option.
I have the "assets" folder set in the main directory and put all of my twitch stuff there but when I search obs to get them all back in all is good but when I restart obs it still says all the files are missing I'm so lost and want this to work! Anyone know what might be going on?
Nutty! This was totally helpful I'm saving my settings when I switched over to my new PC build. HOWEVER, when you move the OBS folder, it throws off your Stream Deck plugins and they won't work anymore. I'm trying to follow Elgato's steps to remedy the situation, but it's not working. This might be disastrous 😭
@@spyco_tv were you able to fix yours? I ended up having to move the folder back to where it was in order for the stream deck to work, but then OBS started crashing in the middle of my streams. So, I uninstalled OBS completely, then reinstalled it and copied the folder with all my settings to where the new install of OBS had them. Thankfully, that worked. All of my stuff is working now and OBS hasn't crashed since.
There's a nice little program called "Symlink Creator" that allows you to create junctions or symbolic links nice and easily. you can also store it on the cloud because it's essentially portable. A junction is exactly the same as creating shortcut, except the junction acts like it's not a shortcut, windows treats the junction shortcut like you created a new folder but the contents of that "new folder" (junction shortcut) is stored in a completely different folder. Windows will read a junction shortcut as having having memory but it won't take up space on the hard drive (if the source folder is on the cloud or on another hard drive). In essence, a junction is a folder that's content are stored else where.
Hey ! I can't manage to link my twitch account to obs after switching to portable mode. if i try to connect an error is showing. It's : "Failed to get text from remote : The requested URL returned error : 404 Not Found"
@@toodaloo91 Ok i just found what happened. It's because of twitch, not obs. You'll have to use your stream key to stream. If you want to get your side tchat and stream info windows, you'll have to go to your twitch dashboard, make the widget of your choice pops out, take the url and adding it as "custom browser dock" in order to do that, go to "view/browser docks". add a name and paste the link
@@TheAlexbest2000 couldnt connect with streamkey aswell, i needed to reinstall everything :D rip. But i have Cloudbackup via Streamelements, so everything is ok...
holy shit the algorithm is inside my head because i have to reinstall OBS but have been waiting cause i really don't want to redo everything i've created over the last 2yrs. These steps (i hope) are going to help solve so many hours i was planning on spending on recreating stuff!!
Maybe I’m just r3tarded but after the backup, do we just replace the folder that comes with the fresh OBS install? Wouldn’t that also change the OBS version? Thanks nut man
Is the last 3 minutes, the Windows junction part, neccessary of you keep the drive letter and subfolders identical? For example D drive/OBS portable/assets/etc.
Thanks for the vid man! Dumb question: would it work if I didn’t do portable mode and simply create two zip files? One for the folder in appdata and the other one for the folder in programs and then just put them each in the right place when I need to do the backup?
Mr Nutty Lord, I saw your video 6 days ago and immediately thought I should really do this like right now. That same day, my OBS crashed!!! THE SAME DAY... Took me a couple of days to bring it back to almost what it was. Honestly, please people do this!
Is there any way to backup Custom Browser Docks and UI layouts? Everywhere I look it says it's impossible, and it's such a pain having to reimport and resize everything every time I backup
Restore point =/= backup As long as you didn't delete you obs-studio folder in AppData, your settings are recoverable. If you did delete it, well that's a shame because literally nowhere in the video did I tell you to delete that folder.
@@nuttylmao I haven't deleted anything. I copied the AppData folder over like you said to. What are the steps I need to do to recover? I open OBS and nothing populates. Followed your instructions exactly.
Didnt work for me, all it did was erease everything I had in OBS, and even after I set everything again, after a few days it was gone again, now I lost a streaming day :'c
I have done this and obs asks me everytime i open it for the missing files....i point it to the new location and then the next time it asks again....the problem really gets bad when it forgets my masks everytime also......is there a way to make the change permanent?
Hi nutty, tried this but making the text file does change nothing for my obs, and config folder does not appear, some ideas? I made sure the text file was exactly as written as the video. Thanks for everything
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Like this if OBS has ever imploded on you and ruined your life.
EDIT: For anyone who's wondering why OBS is no longer saving any changes to their scenes, the reason is because you don't have write access to your C:\Program Files\ folder.
This solution to this is to (A) run OBS in admin mode (thus giving you write access) or (B) moving OBS out of your C:\Program Files\ directory entirely.
I highly advise that you do (B) and move OBS into a cloud storage solution like Google Drive or Dropbox.
OBS imploding cost me a portion of whatever sanity I had left up to that point...
LMAO, I was just rewatching your video about PORTABLE OBS last Wednesday so I can move my info to my new PC. Gonna watch the vid later. Thanks Nutty!
This happened to me in the 3rd week of January. Didn't ruin my life but def took me a week to redo 5 years of an OBS setup.
Well, now i got this Error msg: "Failed to get text from remote : The requested URL returned error : 404 Not Found" and cant connect my Twitch account... already reinstalled everything
getting the itch to switch over the linux full time again.... this seems like it should be helpful.
Like this if OBS has ever imploded on you and ruined your life.
Dude, rest happy: My PC just took the bite and this has saved me WEEKS of OBS work with the new machine… THANK you.
I switched over to obs portable mode and everything seemed to be working fine, until I changed a few things in my scenes. now whenever I close and reopen obs none of the changes I made are there. Changes appear to be saving to my old roaming folder instead of the new config folder. I have to go back to my roaming folder and copy over the obs-studio folder into the new config folder inside of obs portable every time I change something. is there a way to make obs save to the new config folder instead of the old roaming obs-studio folder??
Okay, now please, tell us where to get that pokemon stadium video file from the beginning of the video
but wait, you can add google drive as an actual drive on ur pc to move them into???
So I started doing this tutorial and my obs started crashing, be sure to have a back up of everything before doing this tutorial so you don't lose tons of hours
I have watched so many of your videos, they’ve all taught me something! The last video I watched I was thinking to myself how the hell do you keep coming up with content? Not only that but how was it still so relevant and helpful so many years and videos later?! Thank you Nutty, you’re amazing please never stop posting! 🥺🥰
Thank you, I will do what I can!
Did they change something? because I make the .txt file like you said, but OBS starts up normally. I even run it in admin mode like you said.
To access quickly to the APPDATA folder, here's a fast shortcut with your keyboard: WIN+R to fire up RUN, then type " %APPDATA% " (without quotes) and press enter. In this way you will avoid confusion, because the folder is hided by default. Enjoy!
P.S. Nutty is the NUTS!
''All your settings should be back to normal, if not... ''
Me looking at my empty obs scenes. Oh...
Same
After transferring the obs_portable_mode.txt and open OBS in admin mode, it doesn't do anything and the config folder did not appear.
this also happened for me
also same, halp please :')
Same help pls
same here
so i tried this too and got the same problem but i figured out what the problem was (for me at least) and hopefully it works for you all too.
i created the file just like nutty, did not work - then i deleted the ".txt" so the file name is "obs_portable_mode" without the ".txt" and it works now - it just opened a blank OBS thingy and i am now continuing with the video (just thought because i was looking at comments for a solution earlier that i write this here) - hope it works! :)
So i made the config as instructed and then upgraded to OBS 30 and the config file is in there but OBS is loading as if its a brand new install and none of my settings are applying. I'm not sure what I did wrong.
portable_mode.txt not working , when i start obs again nothing happen i still have my settings...
Couldn't you just backup your OBS-Studio folder and then replace it after If needed. ? Or in my case, let's say I wanted to do a clean install of Windows 11, then i would install OBS as normal, then delete that folder, then copy the backup folder and paste it in the same place as the deleted folder ?
My OBS didn't work at first time and I was like "well.. fuck ಠ_ಠ "
Then I copied and pasted again the folder and I worked.
That was just a quick mini heart attack here
Same thing happened to me! Thanks so much for this comment. You saved me from having my own heart attack!
Yup. Mine did this as well... Wiped *everything*. I felt like puking....
Nutty i need a tutorial on how to un portable obs, i just did this portable tutorial to save my settings after a hardware issues. is theres a way to put it back on windows at it was in the past?
Thanks for the backup script. Not sure why it's trying to backup every video on my c drive though...
my obs is not working for this it is only opening and doing the same thing
nothing worked, i'm totally fked. I'm sure it's user error.
youre just the best bro
n0ted was here
May I ask for Christmas to update the script to include backing up streamdeck and goxlr settings??? mucho please?
This begs the question, why isn't "portable obs" just the way OBS works by default?
It's basically the standard to store settings in AppData. It basically allows you to reinstall programs and keep your data.
Personally I like my programs to be portable wherever possible so I have full control over where all my data is.
@@nuttylmao I wasn't even thinking of that even though I'd heard that before about software development.
So all this script seemed to do currently is copy my system32 and ruin my obs setup, didnt use anything but the default. Guess it did technicly backup something
same for me !
why it has to be so complicated to simply save and restore your whole obs? missing assets cause new pc new location. AI shouldn't be that dumb in 2024.
Common nutty W
this is so clutch
I can’t live without my “Definitely Not Porn” folder
When I create the text file, drop it into the obs-studio folder then run obs. OBS wont run and instead I get a pop up that says error could not create folder "config"
can't you just work for me i give you 1 million per month?
my obs isnt really interested in changing to portable mode, any tips? 🙏
DANG this is so useful! It also helps my anxiety to calm down. 69/10 would watch again
WOW. I'LL NEVER LOSE DATA AGAIN!
great video and very useful scripts, thank you. one thing to point out is that if "create-backup" script to be run as a scheduled task, then path to the portable obs folder needs to be specied in ":: Zip folders" section (to replace "*"). if not, it zips system32 folder instead :)
Can you expand on backing up Streamer.bot as well? Or is it just saving the directory folder?
Thank you for the detailed explanation!
I know I'll be crucified for this question... but can you do anything similar on a Mac?
Aaaaand... can you "sync" or move these OBS settings somehow (USB key, GDrive, anything) between Windows and Mac?
(I am starting to assemble a more portable setup on my Mac laptop in addition to the Windows main one and searching for options.)
I'm unfamiliar with Macs unfortunately, but my assumption is that their file formats are different. But who knows...
Thanks dastardly Dave for sending this to me sassily, after I spent 9 hours rebuilding obs yesterday. At least I’ll never have to go through that again 😅
my dimbass just lost everything in obs LMAO (not blaming. its deff my fault for not saving anything prior.) WELP time to restart.
4:15 yeahhhh about that lol. Thankfully it was a fresh install anyways, so I just have to recreate the most basic of basic setup stuff.
Every single time I would boot up OBS it would act as a new install.
But damn why can't it be easier to just create a simple backup?
Edit: So oddly enough I attempted to delete the obs folder, and move the backup zip to where the regular OBS folder was. At first I couldn't open it. So I attempted to reinstall it. Once it reinstalled it applied my settings back into the appdata folder and my settings are saved >.> I have no idea what has happened but I'll take it for now lol
Is there an easy way to get a list of all asset files and their current location?
I would happily do the manual process of saving to the asset folder as a backup and then always use that folder moving forward
You gave me a heart attack, _good thing you ran away_ until I found that it just defaulted to an empty profile and empty scene collection and the real stuff was still there
This entirely destroyed my OBS.
I entered the directory for the create-backup script to C:\Program Files\obs-studio as you told and the script only backed some AMD Drivers and other stuff on my C Drive eventually reaching 2GB, although my OBS Folder is only 400mb
When afterwards trying to open OBS in admin Mode, everything was nuked and it reloaded a new instance of OBS asking me if i wanted to stream or record :O
All gone
I have a problem with this method, everytime that OBS is opened I need to login into the chat, everytime. A friend help me with my configuration so sometimes he opens my obs from his computer (we work with a dedicated NAS and Syncthing) if that helps
I did this and it worked but I lost the multi stream rtmp dock, couldn't get it back. Then I would remove the 'obs_portable_mode' blank folder out of the files and it would put the multi stream rtmp back, however, I would have a brand new OBS, everything else lost. Idk what to do besides wipe it all and start fresh
Oh, ty, I already had my OBS settings backed up but you teached me about the portable mode which is better than backing the files. I don't need the script. That's on another hard drive now, so I SHOULD be good, if that hard drive don't break.
I'm unable to find how to save my Streamlabs settings now mmhhhh, maybe the files are already in the main folder, in the other hard drive and not in C: ?
I tried this step by step with OBS 28.1.2 after dragging the txt file & reopening OBS the config file never appeared. Could this be an update issue?
This is a total life saver. Thank you so much! You are the BEST!
@6:11 I removed the pause function, since I just want it to close when it's done.
I've also setup a multifunction on my stream deck, first open the cleanup file, then wake 2 seconds, then run the backup file.
Thanks for this.
ty
Would have been very convenient if this was some standard thing for OBS because I'm lazy a f
When you open obs after this should it always prompt for the missing files? That keeps happening to me even if I have linked the asset folder
the obs_portable_mode.txt didnt work
you joke, but my setting are actually not back to normal and I'm stressing now lol
Just go to File > Save > Name File > Oh wait, that would be too logical in the open source world lol.
nope, didnt work for us, added the txt file now it gives us some kind of crap about cant create directories yada yada yada :(
My OBS won't open now. Just says it is already running but I can't get into it. Thanks
@nutty could you also theoretically edit the .bat file to run WinRar instead of 7zip if you don't want to use that program? 🤔
Thank you so much! I am installing a new motherboard and CPU and needing to do a clean windows install. I was able to use your method and moved all my assets in to the OBS directory and am able to back everything up at once now. Hopefully I can just move my OBS to the new windows install and everything will work perfectly!
Bro literally NONE of this works man.
I appreciate ya and stuff, but some of us put our files in Custom places
And this DOESNT WORK IF U DO
This is wrong but okay
Hey Nutty, what about your VST Plugins? Could you just use Junction as well?
Lmao the crying! Man I have felt that before
That's a must watch video. I even think it's necessary to do this if you have a lot of scenes
The AppData-folder might be hidden, it gave me half a heartattack. Try this in that case:
To open the AppData folder on Windows 10, 8 & 7:
Open File Explorer/Windows Explorer
Type %AppData% into the address bar and hit enter
Navigate to the required folder (Roaming or Local)
Thank you so much for this. I'll leave a like and comment for others to see.
Another thing that I don’t know if he mentions in this video is that you’ll either have to start OBS as an adminstrator after this, or move the OBS-folder out of ’program files’ folder, to C: preferably. Otherwise it won’t save when you make any changes in OBS.
@@TheAll-InNerd Once again, thank you very much!
I understand nothing but I gave it a thumbs up!
4:00 lol imagine someone just only watch to 3:00
Alright, I've been streaming for over a year now and haven't "had" to back-up OBS yet. I copied the .txt file over to my obs studio folder, but it didn't reset my OBS or create the config file. Wondering if I did something incorrectly, Windows 10.
Thanks
Either (1) run OBS as admin so you get write permissions in your Program Files folder or (2) pull your entire OBS folder out of Program Files where you *do* have write permissions (which was the entire point of making OBS portable).
Highly recommend you do the second option.
Not gonna lie.. the 1st time I tried doing this everything was GONE! I almost crapped my pants. But I figured it out :) Thanks so much for this video!
How did you figure it out??? I’m having the same issue
I have the "assets" folder set in the main directory and put all of my twitch stuff there but when I search obs to get them all back in all is good but when I restart obs it still says all the files are missing I'm so lost and want this to work! Anyone know what might be going on?
I think I figured out its because I didn't run it as administrator when I was doing it seems to have solved it
Nutty! This was totally helpful I'm saving my settings when I switched over to my new PC build. HOWEVER, when you move the OBS folder, it throws off your Stream Deck plugins and they won't work anymore. I'm trying to follow Elgato's steps to remedy the situation, but it's not working. This might be disastrous 😭
Same for me !
@@spyco_tv were you able to fix yours? I ended up having to move the folder back to where it was in order for the stream deck to work, but then OBS started crashing in the middle of my streams. So, I uninstalled OBS completely, then reinstalled it and copied the folder with all my settings to where the new install of OBS had them. Thankfully, that worked. All of my stuff is working now and OBS hasn't crashed since.
@@RonnieRukusTV yes working perfectly for me at the first time
your look is 𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 unique ❤🔥
There's a nice little program called "Symlink Creator" that allows you to create junctions or symbolic links nice and easily. you can also store it on the cloud because it's essentially portable. A junction is exactly the same as creating shortcut, except the junction acts like it's not a shortcut, windows treats the junction shortcut like you created a new folder but the contents of that "new folder" (junction shortcut) is stored in a completely different folder. Windows will read a junction shortcut as having having memory but it won't take up space on the hard drive (if the source folder is on the cloud or on another hard drive). In essence, a junction is a folder that's content are stored else where.
Thanks for sharing. Very cool tool!
It's a shame there's nothing in the native UI for creating junctions/symlinks.
Thank you Nutty! You are the best and I love you, even though you gave me a heart attack at 4:17 hahaha
anybody knows what i have to write in the batch file to download all the Zip files older than e.g. 7Days ?
Here my solution: forfiles.exe /P "[YOUR WINDOWS FILE PATH]" /S /M *.* /D -7 /C "cmd /c del /q @path"
Hey ! I can't manage to link my twitch account to obs after switching to portable mode. if i try to connect an error is showing. It's : "Failed to get text from remote : The requested URL returned error : 404 Not Found"
same here
@@toodaloo91 Ok i just found what happened. It's because of twitch, not obs. You'll have to use your stream key to stream. If you want to get your side tchat and stream info windows, you'll have to go to your twitch dashboard, make the widget of your choice pops out, take the url and adding it as "custom browser dock"
in order to do that, go to "view/browser docks". add a name and paste the link
@@TheAlexbest2000 couldnt connect with streamkey aswell, i needed to reinstall everything :D rip. But i have Cloudbackup via Streamelements, so everything is ok...
Save, save, and save again...
as always great tutorial thank you!
holy shit the algorithm is inside my head because i have to reinstall OBS but have been waiting cause i really don't want to redo everything i've created over the last 2yrs. These steps (i hope) are going to help solve so many hours i was planning on spending on recreating stuff!!
Super useful video. Thank you so much.
Maybe I’m just r3tarded but after the backup, do we just replace the folder that comes with the fresh OBS install? Wouldn’t that also change the OBS version? Thanks nut man
Mannnnnnnnnnn... I've been running PeaZip forever, now I gotta switch, lmfao... But for something this useful?
#WorthIt
I messed up lol
Is this for Mac OS too?
oops, I couldn't find the obs folder on my user folder. Did I lose it all?
Found it...the folder was hidden
I don't have an OBS folder in my appdata
oaming file?! Where would I locate my settings and stuff if they aren't in that location?
Is the last 3 minutes, the Windows junction part, neccessary of you keep the drive letter and subfolders identical? For example D drive/OBS portable/assets/etc.
Thanks for the vid man! Dumb question: would it work if I didn’t do portable mode and simply create two zip files? One for the folder in appdata and the other one for the folder in programs and then just put them each in the right place when I need to do the backup?
Does it bring back all your welcome setting effects , audio etc
12 hours to late for me! 😂😂😂 I'll know for again
Mr Nutty Lord, I saw your video 6 days ago and immediately thought I should really do this like right now. That same day, my OBS crashed!!! THE SAME DAY... Took me a couple of days to bring it back to almost what it was. Honestly, please people do this!
Is there any way to backup Custom Browser Docks and UI layouts? Everywhere I look it says it's impossible, and it's such a pain having to reimport and resize everything every time I backup
I created a restore point, did this, lost everything in OBS and the restore point I created doesn't give me back my OBS... Are you serious.
Restore point =/= backup
As long as you didn't delete you obs-studio folder in AppData, your settings are recoverable. If you did delete it, well that's a shame because literally nowhere in the video did I tell you to delete that folder.
@@nuttylmao I haven't deleted anything. I copied the AppData folder over like you said to. What are the steps I need to do to recover? I open OBS and nothing populates. Followed your instructions exactly.
Didnt work for me, all it did was erease everything I had in OBS, and even after I set everything again, after a few days it was gone again, now I lost a streaming day :'c
This completely destroyed my obs and had to do a fresh install.
If it did then you did it wrong.
I have done this and obs asks me everytime i open it for the missing files....i point it to the new location and then the next time it asks again....the problem really gets bad when it forgets my masks everytime also......is there a way to make the change permanent?
how to do that on Mac?) I have totally different folders names and etc... I dont have config. can u help me pls?
u rock my friend! im so tired of setting this up every other format + in forums i get all sorts of random answers!cheers
I accidentally deleted my entire system 32 while wokring on a .bat file project you literally are my hero nutty!
I quit streaming because I lost my OBS scenes and settings! This is great stuff
DUDEEEEE!!!!
Hi nutty, tried this but making the text file does change nothing for my obs, and config folder does not appear, some ideas? I made sure the text file was exactly as written as the video. Thanks for everything
did you ever figure this out?
Thanks! I wish OBS would just make this a more automated process for everyone that doesn't know about this.