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I'm about to reformat my hard drive and reinstall everything. Before I do so, I want to make sure I have backed up everything. As it stands, Stardock's products are the only thing left on my checklist.

I recall hearing once that there was an automated way to archive all the Stardock programs I had downloaded, but I don't remember how. Would someone point me in the right direction please?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
SDC/right click/download and archive all
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I tried that, and it started to redownload everything. As I'm not on dial-up at home that's an enormous amount of time it was about to tie up my connection for.

I tried going to campus and installing SDC there, but the install stopped because I didn't have write permission for some dll file.

Is there a zipped archive I can download?
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It doesn't take too long, but you can right-click each proggie listed in SDC and Archive Application => Selected App or Entire App with Skins

Better option and long term solution is to get a second hard drive and a program like Drive Image and you can backup everything fairly easily and quickly
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A question about archiving, what do each of the following options do?

* Archive production applications
* Archive pre-release applications
* Archive application modules
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not sure I don't have those options with SDC. I'm using Ver. 1.30.264, build: 46
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
* Archive production applications


This archives the 'official' release versions..

* Archive pre-release applications


This archives Beta & Alpha versions...

* Archive application modules


This archives any additional modules that come wiht a particular app (eg skins or themes etc)

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Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't have those options either.....



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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That's because Aqua is using version 1.20.238 build 35....




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Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I upgraded to SDC Ver. 1.30.258, build: 44 and got those options again.

I was able archive most of it, but when it got down to TweakShell it threw the following error:

There was an error installing TweakShell. The following error occurred:
Expires: 14 September 2004
Result: Installation failed
Would you like to view the installation log file?


When I went to go view the log file I got the following:
File not found, would you like to create a new one?

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Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Another question: where is it storing all the archived stuff?
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Got another error just now:

There was an error installing Object Sweeper. The following error occurred:

Downloaded: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\backup\osw.zip (attempt: 3 - http error -5)
Result: Installation Failed

Would you like to view the installation log file?


and like before, there was no log file.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hi there aqua, thats a long time since I have seen you arround here...
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You can also go to the Stardock folder in explorer and copy any themes folders from there for which ever programs you have. That's what I do, may take a bit depending on how many there are to copy. But I have had 2 hard drives go in the last 3 months, copying them makes it alot easier to put them back.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hello Styl I'm surprised you've remembered me. I've been hanging around the 3DNA and SCN forums for a while.

Oracle - I finally ended up copying the entire Stardock folder to my backup hard drive.