Backup, Restoration, and transferring POPFile settings

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 For Windows users there is a POPFile User Data Backup/Restore utility. This utility makes it easy for Windows users to make a backup of their current POPFile data which can then be restored to the same location or a different one, possibly on another computer. You can find out more about this utility on its homepage at [[http://www.sugelan.co.uk/popfile/databru.html]] For Windows users there is a POPFile User Data Backup/Restore utility. This utility makes it easy for Windows users to make a backup of their current POPFile data which can then be restored to the same location or a different one, possibly on another computer. You can find out more about this utility on its homepage at [[http://www.sugelan.co.uk/popfile/databru.html]]
  
-===== Finding the User Data files =====+===== Finding the User Data files (Windows version) =====
  
 Originally POPFile and all of its data files were kept in your POPFile folder and its subfolders. Starting with the 0.21.0 release, the data files can now be stored separately from the POPFile files when a clean installation is performed. One of the reasons for storing the data files separately is to make it possible for each user to have their own corpus etc. Originally POPFile and all of its data files were kept in your POPFile folder and its subfolders. Starting with the 0.21.0 release, the data files can now be stored separately from the POPFile files when a clean installation is performed. One of the reasons for storing the data files separately is to make it possible for each user to have their own corpus etc.
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 The POPFile User Data Backup/Restore utility makes it easy for Windows users to make a backup of their current POPFile data, including the "messages" folder. This backup is a customised installer which can then be used to restore the user data to a new location or a new computer. You can find out more about this utility on its homepage at [[http://www.sugelan.co.uk/popfile/databru.html]] The POPFile User Data Backup/Restore utility makes it easy for Windows users to make a backup of their current POPFile data, including the "messages" folder. This backup is a customised installer which can then be used to restore the user data to a new location or a new computer. You can find out more about this utility on its homepage at [[http://www.sugelan.co.uk/popfile/databru.html]]
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 +===== Finding the User Data files (Mac OS X version) =====
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 +POPFile user data is stored in //%%/Library/POPFile/%%// (same as the POPFile program folder) if you are using Mac OS X version.
  
 ===== Restoration and Transfer ===== ===== Restoration and Transfer =====
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   * 1. Shut down POPFile if it is running.   * 1. Shut down POPFile if it is running.
   * 2.a. If the currently installed version of POPFile is equal to or older than the backup version,    * 2.a. If the currently installed version of POPFile is equal to or older than the backup version, 
-    * Copy the files from the backup you made above. If you used zip or WinZip, make sure to unzip the files. Either way, the files must be returned to the POPFile installation directory, which on Windows is //c:\program files\POPFile//.+    * Copy the files from the backup you made above. If you used zip or %%WinZip%%, make sure to unzip the files. Either way, the files must be returned to the POPFile user data directory. You can find it on Windows by above introduction 'Finding the User Data files', and on Mac OS X it is //%%/Library/POPFile/%%//.
   * 2.b. If the currently installed version of POPFile is newer than the backup or if POPFile isn't currently installed,    * 2.b. If the currently installed version of POPFile is newer than the backup or if POPFile isn't currently installed, 
     * Restore POPFile as above, and then reinstall the new version.  Doing it in this order will prevent some configuration files from being overwritten (like if the user added anything to stopwords).  It just saves the step of renaming the backed up config file if you are using the same version.     * Restore POPFile as above, and then reinstall the new version.  Doing it in this order will prevent some configuration files from being overwritten (like if the user added anything to stopwords).  It just saves the step of renaming the backed up config file if you are using the same version.
 
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