lost all my settings?

[JohnJSal]

Hi all. I just opened UE as usual and it is suddenly displaying as if I hadn't customized the settings at all. It looks like the default. It's out of position, toolbars are different, etc. What would cause this?

The only thing that has happened is that when I installed a program, it tried to open an html help file, which opened in UE instead, and this was the first time I noticed the change. Could this have done it? How do I fix it?

Thanks.

[Mofi]

Sounds like you either started a different version of UltraEdit or UltraEdit uses a different INI. See Multiple instances won't disable.

Search for uedit32.* on all your drives with administrator privileges. Don't forget to search also in hidden and system directories. If you use Windows Explorer for the file search, make sure you also have enabled the More Advanced options

Search system folders
Search hidden files and folders
Search subfolders

[JohnJSal]

Well, I just have one uedit32.ini file and multiple instances is disabled. I am baffled. It's like I just lost all my settings for now reason.

[Mofi]

And you have not changed your account name (= user profile)?

Since v10.20 the UltraEdit configuration files are in the user specific and by Windows default hidden application data directory if there is no uedit32.ini from a previous installation anywhere else - see UltraEdit INI file location. Also if you save/load the settings to/from registry they are stored at HKEY_CURRENT_USER and so are user profile specific.

Check again if you do not use the /I command line parameter, the UEINIDIR environment variable or you have an uedit32.ini in the UE program or Windows directory. You also have hopefully not changed the program file name of Uedit32.exe because the default INI name is in real "program file name.ini".

But maybe simply the INI file was corrupt or deleted by you or an other application by mistake and so UltraEdit created a new one with the default settings.

Scanning the hard disk for errors with Windows ScanDisk periodically (once per month), using S.M.A.R.T. and a drive image program is always a good idea to detect the start of the death of an hard disk before data losses occur. The system hard disk at home died for 2 years. I could save all files which were newer as the last drive image backup before it was too late. After 30 minutes of mounting the new hard disk, restore the drive image from the backup hard disk and copying the extra saved files back, my computer worked again with the new hard disk without any data loss. I spent too much time into the setup of my computers according to my needs to risk a complete reinstallation and reconfiguration just because of an hard disk crash or a single configuration file corruption.

[JohnJSal]

I emailed UE support to see what they would say. Does this sound plausible? I'll try it when I get home I guess:

Hello John,

Thanks for your response and the additional information. I don't know why it would have, but it sounds like the installation of this video
game may have somehow corrupted the uedit32.ini file. If you shut down UltraEdit-32 and rename your uedit32.ini file and restart UltraEdit,
this would cause a new INI file with default settings to be created. If you then modify your configuration options and then shut down and
restart UltraEdit do these changes seem to be saved?

Thanks, Troy

[mrainey56]

Erasing a corrupted ini file has worked for me in the (distant) past. Haven't experienced the problem for years.

[JohnJSal]

Geez, I did another search for uedit32.ini and this time it found 5 files! One in the AppData folder, one in WINDOWS, one in Recent (in my personal folder), and two in My Computer. I deleted the one in WINDOWS and now everything is back to normal!