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This tab allows you to backup and restore your Firestorm preferences in a safe, quick and easy way. This is useful in a number of situations. For example:

• The viewer is behaving in an unusual way and settings corruption is suspected. You can create a backup of your settings prior to wiping them to defaults, to see if default settings solves the problem. If it doesn't solve the problem, you can quickly revert to your old settings.
• You are troubleshooting a problem and the next step is to clear settings.
• You are installing Firestorm on a new computer. Restoring from a portable backup, such as a USB drive or cloud service, can make quick work of the process.
• You are downgrading to a previous version of Firestorm. Generally, this requires you clean install (which implies not only removing the old version before installing the new, but also wiping settings), since some settings files tend not to be compatible between versions. You can use backup/restore to save having to manually reconfigure all setting after the upgrade.

NOTE: All settings are backed up, but graphics settings are not restored as they may be incompatible with the graphics hardware. Graphics settings are initially optimized automatically by the viewer.

• Backup Path: Select the folder where your backup settings will be written; click the Set button to select the folder.
  (Please do NOT store directly to your dekstop.)

Below are three groups of settings which may be restored:

• Global files: Settings which affect all accounts;
• Per Account FIles: Settings whcih can be different for each account;
• Folders: This includes custom selection beams, windlight, and so on

To select all of the available settings for restore, click the Select All button; Deselect All unchecks all of them, allowing manual selection of just some.

• Restore global settings: Check this if you wish the restore operation to restore the settings listed in the Global Files column.
• Restore per account settings: Check this if you want the restore function to restore settings listed in the Per account Files column.

• Backup Settings: Click this button to create a backup of your settings, to the folder specified at the top. Note again that all settings are backed up.
• Restore Settings: Click this to restore selected settings previously saved by a Backup.

For step by step instructions, please refer to this page; there is a video tutorial here.