favorite items buggy , losing some or all items

[shev72]

Hello,

I really like the favorite items toolbar, I use it regularly.

However on more than one occasion I have lost all my items. There is a bug somewhere.

It just occurred again, while I was trying to add the active panel into a subfolder.

Unfortuntately I cannot reproduce this accurately. It has happened on 2 different PCs so I think it is not OS or related to other tools , I really think there is a bug somewhere. Bug is quite important, because it can take quite a bit of time to setup this favorite items sidebar.

[Karol]

Workaround: use backup of your settings and copy FreeCommander.fav.xml into the current settings.

[horst.epp]

I'm using the portable FC.
Every day I make a full ZPAQ backup of the whole tree into the same archive.
ZPAQ is deduplicating, so this archive grows only slowly and can have hundreds of versions.

[Forez]

But do you mean that after right-clicking and choosing Customize favorite toolbars in the upper left sub-window you no longer see such Toolbar on the list of available ones? Or they are present but without some newly added Items?

Maybe those two happenings occurred after a FreeCommander or system crash? This, assuming you have not saved your Settings, would explain why you lost such recent addition

[shev72]

beautiful, it works! didn't realize my settings were being auto backedup, very useful! and sufficient.

To be honest the bug does not happen often (about once every 6 months), but when it has happened it has been painful, the workaround is more than enough.