Preset recovery. . .

WayneM wrote on 5/14/2012, 7:06 PM
Several months ago I had a glitch with my main 6-month old workstation so that it didn't want to boot. After several days debugging and needing to get back to work I installed a new primary boot drive and rebuilt from the ground up. Machine has no more problems. It was just one of those weird happenings. I saved the boot drive and it functions fine for recovering data as an attached drive.

I just started a new multi-track mixdown with Vegas Pro 10 and remembered I had a LOT of presets for Audio track FX that I had a lot of work into and they would be good starting points.

I installed Preset Manager 2.0k but haven't been able to find where the presets are located on the old boot drive so that I can recover them and make them available in the reinstalled VPro10. I didn't find anything with a search here or by Googling. I know I did this once years ago. . .I think.

Any help appreciated on tracking down my earlier Presets for Vegas Pro 10.

Thanks much.

Wayne

Comments

rraud wrote on 5/14/2012, 7:34 PM
Not sure if there's any specific default folder for the presets, but try searching your old drive for files with the extension <.sfpreset>.
If the VSTs and such now have a different folder path, you may get an error message indicating that the such and such plugin cannot be found or something to that affect.
- I had the same thing happen a year or so ago, the OS got irreparably corrupted somehow but the drive was OK and files were easily recovered. After everything was reinstalled the all my .veg projects and preset chains opened and worked fine.. and I had lots of third party DX and VST plug-ins.
WayneM wrote on 5/14/2012, 7:50 PM
Thanks for the suggestion. Searched old drive, new drive and even other attached drives and not coming up with anything. This was presets I created and tuned in VegasPro 9 and 10. Are all the audio effects still tagged as SFpresets?

I have created some new ones and those show up in the Preset Manager.

I wonder if using the previous Preset manager might help. I don't remember if I set these presets up in VegasPro9 or 10. I have both SF 9 and SF 10 installed, but only Vegas Pro 10 now.

Weird.
WayneM wrote on 5/14/2012, 7:53 PM
Another thought, I saved the individual settings and they were accessible to all VPro 10 sessions, but I didn't use the Preset Manager to save a package. Is that necessary? I didn't think so, but. . .
altarvic wrote on 5/15/2012, 9:59 AM
Presets are stored in the registry, so you won't find them on the hard drive...