Long story short, My Win10 install is borked on my laptop and I need to reinstall. I can’t even get GP to load because audio drivers no longer exist on the system itself and they won’t reinstall (hence why I can’t just export everything).
I think I have everything already backed up, but I want to be sure so I can redownload whatever I may have missed.
Any other GP information recovery advice is welcome.
If you are reinstalling, then you probably do NOT want to reuse the old plugin list — as you’re going to want to properly rescan everything anyway, otherwise the plugin list will be out of sync with what’s actually on your system - and all bets are off what happens in that case.
However please note that
a) The name and locations can change without notice - they are officially undocumented
b) Tampering with this file can totally blow up GP so all bets are off if one plays/modifies/replaces it.
Generally, one should use the Export/Import options in Gig Performer to export settings and import them again later.
@dhj I think @BurnDivision is just in need of some kind of checklist, to complete reinstall and not to forget anything?
Yes, essentially this. I am not carrying anything over other than, project files, the plugins themselves and (hopefully) any files associated with said plugins. GP will otherwise be a fresh install.
As I said, unfortunately I can not run GP as Windows does not recognize having any audio devices/drivers installed right now.
OK, I saved my .settings file and opened it up with Notepad++. I see it’s just a simple XML file but this helps me make sure I have all my previous plugins now.
I’m currently waiting for my new MacBook - so I used the time to prepare a little Python script to extract the Plugin list of Gig Performer to a CSV and a XLS sheet
I’m no Python/XML professional, so forgive me for my coding
Just put the attachment to a folder, rename GP2csv.tyt to GP2csv.py, copy your Gig Performer.settings mentioned above to this folder and follow the comments within the script…
Yes, that’s right, and I learned this some time ago. However this is ‘only’ for the Plugin Manager, and has been some python training for me some time ago.
With my updated script I am able to create a list out of a gig file to figure out, what plugins are used in every single Rackspace (and in which version they have been introduced…).