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How Do I Retrieve My Old mIRC Settings? #217568 16/01/10 07:10 PM
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OP Javid Self-satisified door J Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 3	Alright, I just updated to Windows 7 using a clean install. Now before I migrated I saved my mirc.ini file and my servers.ini file. Now in the past I have done this before, and it always worked. I would just paste these two files back in the mIRC directory after a clean install of mIRC and everything was good to go. Now when I do this I don't get anything but the default mIRC settings. What am I doing wrong here?

Re: How Do I Retrieve My Old mIRC Settings? Javid #217573 16/01/10 11:02 PM
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DJ_Sol Hoopy frood D Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,156 Seattle	There should be a pinned topic about this. Default mirc settings are now stored in a public folder. Originally Posted By: "version.txt" 20.For Vista compatibility, new installations of mIRC now save all settings in the User's "Application Data\mIRC" folder by default. However, if the installer or mIRC find mirc.ini in the same folder as mirc.exe they will use the mirc.exe folder for all settings. Users installing over an old version of mIRC should therefore see no change in behaviour. The installer is now also aware of administrator and standard user accounts and installs mIRC accordingly. So either put your backed up ini file in this folder, or put mirc.exe in a different folder than the original setup folder with your scripts and backed up mirc.ini.

Re: How Do I Retrieve My Old mIRC Settings? DJ_Sol #217599 17/01/10 05:57 PM
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OP Javid Self-satisified door J Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 3	Originally Posted By: DJ_Sol There should be a pinned topic about this. Default mirc settings are now stored in a public folder. Originally Posted By: "version.txt" 20.For Vista compatibility, new installations of mIRC now save all settings in the User's "Application Data\mIRC" folder by default. However, if the installer or mIRC find mirc.ini in the same folder as mirc.exe they will use the mirc.exe folder for all settings. Users installing over an old version of mIRC should therefore see no change in behaviour. The installer is now also aware of administrator and standard user accounts and installs mIRC accordingly. So either put your backed up ini file in this folder, or put mirc.exe in a different folder than the original setup folder with your scripts and backed up mirc.ini. I did that, and it still doesn't work. I put my ini files in the same directory as the main program and it doesn't work. Also, where can I access the users Application Data File in Windows 7? I can't find it anywhere.

Re: How Do I Retrieve My Old mIRC Settings? Javid #217603 17/01/10 07:00 PM
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5618 Hoopy frood 5 Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 933	Try Start > Run > %APPDATA%

Re: How Do I Retrieve My Old mIRC Settings? 5618 #217684 19/01/10 10:30 PM
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OP Javid Self-satisified door J Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 3	Originally Posted By: 5618 Try Start > Run > %APPDATA% Thank You, that worked like a charm!

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