what to back up before reinstalling

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Hmmm, instead of having to worry about all the details (although the Linguistics folder is an exception – I was not aware of that), why not simply make a complete copy of the folder that FrameMaker 12 is installed in?

That is trivially simple to do. Then you have a complete copy to retrieve from as needed.

Z

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Spreadbury
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 5:49 AM
To: Reng, Dr. Winfried; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: what to back up before reinstalling

Carol,
First and foremost your maker.ini. This one is a MUST.
If you have ANY plugins installed, at a minimum, the \fminit\plugins folder. Wouldn't hurt to take the entire \fminit folder, to go along with Winfrieds suggestion.
If you have ANY customized templates, that you copied to the Framemaker12 templates folder for ease in locating them, the \Templates folder.
If you have ANY customized Structured applications, the \Structure folder.

Before you uninstall your current Framemaker12, you might want to just try re-installing. That will refresh any corrupted files.
If that doesn't work, then uninstall and re-install.
Dave

On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 4:20 AM, "Reng, Dr. Winfried" <wreng at tycoint.com<mailto:wreng at tycoint.com>> wrote:

Hi Carol,

I do not know whether this changed with FrameMaker 12.
However, FrameMaker 11 has its Linguistics folder not in
AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Framemaker\12, but in
AppData\LocalLow\Adobe

In the Linguistics folder there is the user dictionary which I definitely
would back up.

Best regards

Winfried

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-
> bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:bounces at lists.frameusers.com>] On Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 10:29 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Subject: what to back up before reinstalling
>
> Sigh. I have to reinstall Framemaker 12 on my Win7 system. Before I
> do so, I am creating a list of all of the files that I need to back
> up so that I can restore all of my customization after I reinstall.
> Here is my list so far (not including all of the add-ins and scripts
> that are unique to my installation).
>
> Back up the following from
> C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Framemaker\12
>      Folder WorkSpaces (specifically the .cfsw and .fws files)
>      Folder Linguistics
>      File consfile.txt
>      File maker.ini
>      File pdfsize.ini
>
> Back up the following from C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker12
>      Folder Templates
>      Folder fminit
>      Folder plugins
>      maker.ini
>
> Any others? I will post the final list somewhere that will serve as a
> resource to the rest of us; I've had no luck searching for such a
> list on Adobe or by Googling.
>
> Two additional questions: Does anyone know if backing up the
> WorkSpaces folder REALLY allows you to retrieve your custom
> workspaces after reinstall? I vaguely remember having a problem with
> this when I upgraded to FM12. And do I need to deactivate my current
> installation before reinstalling it on the same computer?
>
> Carol

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