Restore Gameex Configuration. Please help!

[goindimon]

Hi, 

So for what ever reason, my GameEx has converted to the default Blue version of the front end. I have no idea why, I did not perform any upgrade. I was playing a MAME v138 game with no issues and the next day it was defaulted. I lost my joystick configuration, theme, all the configured emulators etc. EVERYTHING? ! Can anyone please help me determine what to look for and how to restore my previous setup. Thanks, in advance. 

[tthurman]

Hey goindimon, welcome to the GameEx forums.

You accidentally had this posted in the EVO forums, so I moved it to the appropriate area here in GameEx>General.  We've got quite a lot going on here, so it's easy to do, just be mindful of this when posting so your thread gets replies.

The links in my signature show what files are recommended to post when asking for help, as they offer insight as to what you have going on.  

 

To just take a shot in the dark, do you have auto-update for GameEx enabled, and if so did it just recently update?  

If you do, and it did update, then go in the folder your ini file is stored in (instructions in the links contained in my signature) and look for a backup ini which is created automatically when updating.  Save both the current ini and the back up, and then rename the backup ini so GameEx uses it, and restart GameEx.

[goindimon]

Tthurman, 

Thanks for the recommendation. Sorry for the mis-post. I looked in the config directory under the GameEx folder and saw a GameEx.backup.ini. But it was dated last year so it didnt seem like an update occured. I could not figure it out so I used that file and reconfigured EVERYTHING in the Advance Settings  again. I will make sure I backup the GameEx.ini to have a backup next time this occurs. Thanks for your help.