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I've decided to bring back the "full" Chrome profile handling, even if some settings disappear because of different encryption key between source and target user profiles.
Just to let you know, at startup after restore/transfer, Chrome will do this, no matters what you do:
- Default search engine reverts back to Google
- Start page and tabs are reset to Chrome defaults
- New tab page settings is reverted to defaults
- Pinned tabs are wiped out
- Website settings are reset (like granted popups or mic access)
- Cookies are wiped out
- Extensions and themes are removed

I'll just add a warning saying that user must NOT click the "Reset all settings" button when going to Chrome settings after restore or things will get worse. This way, maximum settings will be kept and I'll get covered for missing items...
 
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I'm having problems download the Nirsoft tools. On everyone of them I get the attached message.
JoelM said:
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It looks like you have a problem with your firewall. All the instructions are in your screen shot.
If you can't edit your firewall rules, then, since nirsoft tools are now bundled directly, I suggest that you download the full Fab's AutoBackup package from your store account (here's the procedure: https://download.fpnet.fr/Download-Update-Guide.pdf).
The files will be extracted to "C:\Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro" folder. Grab its content and overwrite your current files with them.
 
fabs said:
I'm having problems download the Nirsoft tools.
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Heh - The only errors I get when running FABs are the Nirsoft tools failing to get what ever they were after. (Sorry, no screenshot but it's pretty routine so I'll grab one on my next backup.)
 
Diggs said:
Heh - The only errors I get when running FABs are the Nirsoft tools failing to get what ever they were after. (Sorry, no screenshot but it's pretty routine so I'll grab one on my next backup.)
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That can happen if there is some anti malware else but Defender running and preventing them from running.
 
So, I don't have the secret receipt to grab Malwarebytes license key since it's now encrypted. This feature is now useless and will be removed in next Fab's version. I wish I had better news about that but I don't :/
At least, it will have some more features and improvements. If everything goes well, I may release it this week.
 
@fabs Have you checked out Windows 11's new Media Player?


I have no idea how it works, but it looks like it will allow you to sort music/videos and use playlists (sort of like iTunes). You might want to check out whether Fabs can back up/restore the Media Player settings.
 
sapphirescales said:
@fabs Have you checked out Windows 11's new Media Player?


I have no idea how it works, but it looks like it will allow you to sort music/videos and use playlists (sort of like iTunes). You might want to check out whether Fabs can back up/restore the Media Player settings.
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As soon as it does not rely on those Jetblue databases, that is worth a shot
 
fabs said:
I've decided to bring back the "full" Chrome profile handling, even if some settings disappear because of different encryption key between source and target user profiles.
Just to let you know, at startup after restore/transfer, Chrome will do this, no matters what you do:
- Default search engine reverts back to Google
- Start page and tabs are reset to Chrome defaults
- New tab page settings is reverted to defaults
- Pinned tabs are wiped out
- Website settings are reset (like granted popups or mic access)
- Cookies are wiped out
- Extensions and themes are removed

I'll just add a warning saying that user must NOT click the "Reset all settings" button when going to Chrome settings after restore or things will get worse. This way, maximum settings will be kept and I'll get covered for missing items...
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Aloha Fab. Mahalo for the updates. Just to clarify... if the user is syncing their google account in Chrome before running Autobackup, all these items gets restored to the new user profile once they resume syncing in Chrome. Correct? Or did I misunderstand something here? (quite easily could have done so)


Harry Z
 
Haole Boy said:
Aloha Fab. Mahalo for the updates. Just to clarify... if the user is syncing their google account in Chrome before running Autobackup, all these items gets restored to the new user profile once they resume syncing in Chrome. Correct? Or did I misunderstand something here? (quite easily could have done so)


Harry Z
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If Google Sync is already used, then using Fab's to transfer Chrome profile is useless as user gets everything back on the new machine as soon as Google Sync is enabled on it too.
That being said, if Chrome profile is restored over anyway, then Google Sync gets disable (even Google account disappears). Chrome shows its "Chrome detected that some of your settings were corrupted by another program and reset them to their original defaults." message when going to settings and items are lost in the battle like saved credentials and some others already known.
However, things are not that bad since if you enable Google Sync again on new machine, missing settings come back.
 
fabs said:
If Google Sync is already used, then using Fab's to transfer Chrome profile is useless as user gets everything back on the new machine as soon as Google Sync is enabled on it too.
That being said, if Chrome profile is restored over anyway, then Google Sync gets disable (even Google account disappears). Chrome shows its "Chrome detected that some of your settings were corrupted by another program and reset them to their original defaults." message when going to settings and items are lost in the battle like saved credentials and some others already known.
However, things are not that bad since if you enable Google Sync again on new machine, missing settings come back.
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Thanx. This is the info I was looking for!
 
Hello,
Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro and Fab's AutoBackup 7 Home & Office V7.9.0.5091 have just been released.

Here is the change log for both versions:

Added:
- Support for Microsoft Visio shapes, drawings, templates, stencils, addons and startup folder.
- Support for OpenVPN configuration files.
- "Full" Google Chrome profile is now handled again. Just be aware that at next startup, Chrome can reset settings like default search engine, start page and tabs, new tab page settings, pinned tabs, website settings (like granted popups or mic access) and cookies. It can also remove extensions and themes. To keep at least bookmarks and history, do NOT click the "Reset all settings" button in Chrome settings.

Removed:
- Malwarebytes now encrypts its license key. It cannot be grabbed anymore, so, this feature is removed.

Fixed:
- When dealing with large amounts of additional files at restore, the program could look stuck while it was listing them. Now, the backup process creates a text list of any additional file that's in the backup. This way, it will be able to list additional files way faster. If that list is not there, it will show that it is currently listing additional files.

Grab it from your orders history's details on the shop's website at https://store.fpnet.fr/account.php or using the bundled updater tool (click the "Download Fab's AutoBackup 7.X" link within the program and get the updated files).
 
One issue I always have: when I'm restoring there's usually about 70 files that already exist, mostly related to Microsoft Edge. I'm not really sure whether to restore the newer version, keep older version, or whatever. Also, I've never clicked an answer to 70 consecutive dialog boxes. And even if I wanted to the buttons appear in a different spot on the screen depending on the length of the filename... so even if I wanted to click "replace" 70 times it would be exceedingly difficult as I'd have to position the mouse 70 different times.
 
timeshifter said:
One issue I always have: when I'm restoring there's usually about 70 files that already exist, mostly related to Microsoft Edge. I'm not really sure whether to restore the newer version, keep older version, or whatever. Also, I've never clicked an answer to 70 consecutive dialog boxes. And even if I wanted to the buttons appear in a different spot on the screen depending on the length of the filename... so even if I wanted to click "replace" 70 times it would be exceedingly difficult as I'd have to position the mouse 70 different times.
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This version should solve this as it makes a mirror copy when restoring/transferring. This has been introduced with the full chrome profile return. Since Edge works the same way, it uses the same function under the hood.
 
Downloaded the latest version. Whenever it comes to the nirsoft tools everyone comes back with a message like this. I don't see the file in the temp file. It acts like the zip file is not correctly extracting to the temp folder.nirsoft.jpg
 
I thought that the zip files were corrupted somehow but that's not the case. Contents extract fine. There could be problems like this is another anti malware but Windows Defender is running on the machine. I tested with Malwarebytes running at the same time and it deleted the tools as soon as Fab's extracted them. The fix was to disable Malwarebytes real time antimalware protection and this time it worked flawlessly.
 
fabs said:
The fix was to disable Malwarebytes real time antimalware protection and this time it worked flawlessly.
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It's actually more than a bit of a shock to me that Malwarebytes does not have each and every one of NirSoft utilities whitelisted. They're well-known quantities that have been "around since dirt," for the most part. The fact that some of them use what would and should look like "suspect methods" to software like Malwarebytes doesn't mean that they're actually problematic.
 
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