Game deleted all of my custom keybinds

Airpower

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Okay I'll start off by admitting I'm pretty upset right now. I played the game in VR for the first time two days ago, and during that session, my controls worked fine. Today when I logged in, I found that all of my custom controls, which I painstakingly built up over the course of months, were just gone. I don't understand why they were deleted, and there's no obvious way to get them back either.

Can someone please help me out with this? I'd like to know WHY this happened, or at the very least how to avoid it from happening again.

Upon a little reading, I see that plugging in additional controllers (which I did - I used an XBox controller for my VR Galaxy map) can affect this. Is this for real? Plugging in a controller ejects all of your custom keybinds?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
 

Whiplash 1983

Whiplash 1983
Yes. The game folder contains only one working bindings file and identifying a new controller will "New" it.
I always thought it would be nice if different bindings files could be named and selected, but no.
The above info on backing up a set is the only way to keep them sorted.
 

Airpower

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Factabulous, thank you - I restored my old bindings with the link you gave.

This doesn't seem like a "working as intended" feature. Definitely feels like a bug to have your control scheme zeroed out just by plugging in a new controller..
 

Tactix

Tactix
Why there isnt a proper Save/load/backup control bindings after all these years is pretty meh, i think alot of people have been asking for this from the getting go including myself.
What would it take... like an hour to code, could even use windows built in Xcopy functions or the like.

Thanks to reddit i found a script you can use to make backups easy.
Right click desktop select NEW/Text Document, open that and paste the contents below
Code: 
xcopy "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings\*.*" %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Elitecontrols /i
Save and close the file, rename to whatever you like "Example.bat" add the .bat to the end of the name.
Double click the bat file you just made and it will create a folder on your desktop called Elitecontrols and copy a backup of all files in your Elite Bindings folder.
You may need to change a setting in windows for the .bat to change file type
Click the windows icon and type "folder" then select "file explorer options" select the View tab and scroll down to "Hide extensions for known file types" and uncheck the box.
Now when you name a file you have the option to use .xxx to change the files type, in this case we are changing .txt to .bat.
 
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