How to back up Xara's workspace settings?

[Wolfgang]

This happened to me twice now.
I had painstakingly rearranged all tools, bars and buttons to my liking.
I had my defaults defined and my template set.

Right until everything was back to factory default from one day to the next.
One time it was after my computer crashed while Xara was open, the other time I can't remember.

However, before I go through all the rearranging again, how can I backup my workspace in case it resets again?

Thanks!

[Albacore]

If you made up your own control bar from new and you have the option of naming it and saving it as your own the all you do is to call that up. I haven't tried to do this in years so this behavior might have been changed honestly don't know. The rest of your settings can be saved with saving a page as a template that still works I know that things like colour palette.

[Wolfgang]

If you made up your own control bar from new and you have the option of naming it and saving it as your own the all you do is to call that up. I haven't tried to do this in years so this behavior might have been changed honestly don't know. The rest of your settings can be saved with saving a page as a template that still works I know that things like colour palette.

Thanks, that's a different way of doing it, but it would work for me.
I created and named a new Bar and put all the tools into that I need.
However, I can't really "save" the Bar by means of backup?
I fear it will be gone when the next "Reset" happens?
Same thing for the tools.

My template ist still working, but after the resets it's no longer my default template and I just have to set it again.

All in all this situation is less than optimal, there has to be a way to REALLY back up those settings?

[mwenz]

There is a registry hive that has this information. That branch of the registry can be exported and imported. As for the template(s), you need to back that up manually in the event of having to reinstall/reset.

Xara really needs to (should) add the facility for backing up the workspace.

[Wolfgang]

There is a registry hive that has this information. That branch of the registry can be exported and imported. As for the template(s), you need to back that up manually in the event of having to reinstall/reset.

Xara really needs to (should) add the facility for backing up the workspace.

You wouldn't know where exactly in the Registry?
I searched it for "Xara", found a multitude of entries, but none looked like those settings.

By the way, I absolutely second, that there should be an "official" option for backing up the workspace, or even worspacES.

[gwpriester]

By the way, I absolutely second, that there should be an "official" option for backing up the workspace, or even worspacES.

Yep. Me too. I cannot begin to count the number of times I have had to rebuild my custom toolbar.

I am moving this thread to Dear Xara where such feature requests are made.