Hi,
I'm not sure how this could happen unless something was badly corrupted or you moved/renamed your Documents/BeerSmith2 directory. The only other possibility would be a change of user permissions/user login or directories that prevented the program from accessing your current Documents/BeerSmith2 directory.
All of your data is stored in the Documents/BeerSmith2 directory. Unless you do a "Change Documents Directory" (on the file menu) or move/rename that directory the data will stay in that directory - there is nothing in the program to change it.
The "worst case" recovery process for a corrupt/missing file in BeerSmith 2 is as follows:
- Rename your "Documents/BeerSmith2" directory to something else like "OldBeerSmith" - so you don't lose anything
- Restart BeerSmith2 - which will create a new BeerSmith2 directory with the sample recipes in it
- You will likely have to enter your registration key again
- Once you have BeerSmith running again, use the Open command to open your old Recipe.bsmx file
that is now in your "OldBeerSmith" directory and then copy/paste any recipes you need into
your new "My Recipes" folder
- You can do the same with Equipment.bsmx, Hops.bsmx, etc... if you have added items beyond
those that came with BeerSmith 2
- If you can't open one of the files (Recipe.bsmx for example), you can also try opening the numbered
backups (Recipe1.bsmx, Recipe2.bsmx, etc...) - these contain older copies of the original.
- Let me know if you have any problems - and please keep your "OldBeerSmith" directory around
(the one you renamed earlier) as it will have all of your data in it!
Cheers,
Brad