They don't make it easy do they?
- Thread starter Jaffz
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Having spent hours customizing my DS4, I made a backup that I keep in an entirely separate directory, just in case. I'm surprised everyone doesn't do this. I'm not victim-blaming, ED definitely should not delete these, but knowing it sometimes does makes having a backup a priority.
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Since installing Elite I've set deny NTFS permissions on my personal document folders. Should not install software that wants to remove my files, tho. Those scans of payday papers could come in handy if I ever reach retirement.
How do you do a back up. And a back up of what exactly please ? Several times I've had to redo my bindings.
What a weird thread. OP buys a new PC and complain his bindings are gone...Duh. Please tell me, how many games have you played which saved your bindings in the cloud? Personally, that number is zero, even among the MMOs.
Save the contents of the %localappdata%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings folder
Save the contents of the %localappdata%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings folder
The Bindings are usually (unless you've explicitely moved them, and I wouldn't even know how to start doing that) in %LOCALAPPDATA\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings (on my PC, that resolves to C:\Users\markus\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings - YMMV, but not by that much).
There should be at least one Custom.3.0.binds file in there - take it and copy it to a completely different folder on a different drive - DON'T simply create a copy and rename it to something unsuspicious in the same folder as ED will scan also the header lines of all the files inside this folder.
If you're too lazy for that, install 7zip (alwys a good idea in any case), then afterwards right-click on your binds file, select 7zip -> add to archive... and give it a fancy name of your liking (or simply use the default name/archive). ED won't scan zipped archives, thank goodness, so you can simply leave it lying there.
Oh, and for those who claim to have lost their bindings: in the same folder, there's also a BindingLoadingErrors.log. Read it. Uusally, the bindings aren't lost, but someone simply misplaced one or more USB devices that were used in those bindings, which makes ED fall back to the basic default kb&m bindings. Check the error log and the latest binds file, it should still all be there waiting for the right hardware to be connected.
Oh, and ED will also have placed a few backups in there - supposedly every time it actually changes the bindings. Not counting my own backups, I have now accumulated a dozen binds files there.
P.S.: Make sure about the blanks in the paths - there's another pathe nearby that starts with Frontier_Developments - that's different stuff.
It's not that they delete the old bindings.
What happens is that they have a new bindings file - but hey make no effort to import the bindings from the old file.
So when you have a major update you have to re-do your bindings. Ulness you copy and paste the actual bindings from the old xml file into the new one and let the unchanged stuff be default, but that type of merge can be a bit flakey.
It would just be better if one of the 500 Frontier employees spend some time designing a Bindings Management System.
But then given how well ARX was implemented, maybe it's less pain to re-do your bindings and manage your own backups.
I have all the camera stuff on the Logitech hand controller.
I shoot video rarely.
The hand controller is my son's - and he likes to use it.
Why should the rest of my rig be unworkable just because the kid has the camera controls?
Your Elite keybinds should be as precious information as your credit card number. If you have a phone or a USB stick there's no real reason to lose them.
C:\Users\Yourname\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings
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Why in four or five months? Do you think your keybindings will be back by then?
Welcome.
So, the game didn't delete your keybinds then...
They are stored locally on your machine.
Now we're delving deep into the murky depths of software design...
ED gives you full freedom to assign any function to any control on any device. You can select the next target with the keyboard, the previous target from your joystick and the highest threat from some pedals. Probably not because of any conscious design decision, but simply because that's easier than creating groupings that can only be assigned to one device - also on the UI.
And you need a fallback strategy in the case one of the input devices becomes unavailable. There are several ways for that - FD decided to go for the option to fall back to a documented (well, somewhat) default binding for everything instead of only for the affected functions. Again, that's a simple and robust approach. It's not the only possible approach, but I guess that's something that was decided while ED was still in the Kickstarter phase where KISS was mandatory - and now we're stuck with it unless someone decides to go for a major redesign here.
So, no reason why it should, but plenty reasons why it could. A manual workaround could be (for you) to keep two sets of bindings and swap them manually whenever you want to do camera work. Someone with too much time on their hands might even automate that swap, depending on whether the camera controls are plugged in or not.
Ye it's a real pain. You'd think that 500 people could solve an UI issue but there we are.
No idea why it affects some people and not others.
The only time i lost my binds was when i had left a controller plugged in that i didn't normally use and launched ED, so ED, in its infinte widsom, decided that it would reconfigure for that and lose all my bindings for my joystick.
The only time i lost my binds was when i had left a controller plugged in that i didn't normally use and launched ED, so ED, in its infinte widsom, decided that it would reconfigure for that and lose all my bindings for my joystick.
IS the OP complaining that their keybinds disappeared when they built a new PC?
For some reason I never lost my bindings in 5 years.