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Trouble Finding My Recipes & Profiles In A Re-Activated BS-2.0

BradRocker

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Hey everyone, I hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction here....

Let's see - I will keep this as simple as possible.

I recently revamped my laptop.  Prior to doing so, I made a "clone drive" or exact copy, of my laptop prior to wiping it.  This was in the event that things went south.  On my "clone drive" was my BeerSmith 2 with 30 some recipes, all of my equipment profiles, modifications, etc. that I used on a daily basis up until this morning when I redid my laptop.

Once I revamped my laptop, I plugged in my "clone drive" and copied all the BeerSmith folders (C:programFiles(x86)), etc. back into the exact location.  I had a shortcut to BeerSmith in a folder that I use on my desktop as well.

Everything copied over perfectly.  I opened BeerSmith only to be told to reactivate (which I did), and now all of my profiles, recipes, mods, etc. are gone. 

Is there any way I can get those profiles and recipes back in there - other than redoing them all 1 at a time? 

Anyone have any insight on any of this, or have some helpful hints that I might be able to use.

Thanks in advance!  Cheers!
 
Simply recopy the Documents/BeerSmith2 folder and paste it to replace the same directory on the new computer.

Make sure BeerSmith is closed at the time you do this.
 
I thought I did this already.  When I redid my laptop, obviously I didn't have the BS folder on the new laptop, so I simply dragged the folder from the clone drive back over to the new laptop location - C:programFiles(x86).  That was the file path for the original folder.

Am I missing something here?

Sorry if I am...  Been a long night of copy, paste, remove, delete, format, copy, move, plug in, copy, paste, etc. haha
 
The file path you're describing is for the program itself. You should do a clean install from the BeerSmith website. You'll have to enter your activation number again.

The folder path with all of your recipes and custom profiles is C:\Documents\BeerSmith2

After you've installed BeerSmith and entered your activation number, close BeerSmith.  Then, from the mirror drive, copy the C:\Documents\BeerSmith2 folder and paste it into the same location on the new computer.
 
Now I am picking up what you are throwing down.  I was unaware that there would be 2 container folders.  1 in the ProgramFiles, then another in the Documents.

Well, I am already reactivated, so I will do as you instructed here quick and I will report back shortly. 

Thanks for you patients and help here.  It's appreciated.
 
UPDATE:  Did as you instructed and it's all there like it was yesterday.  Moved the C:Documents/BeerSmith from the clone drive right over to the coinciding location on the laptop and Presto!

I cannot thank you enough for the help.  I truly thought I was going to be spending the rest of the weekend transferring recipes and profiles one at a time.

It MAGIC!

Cheers!
 
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