Restoring a backup

Settings Saver backs up an instance's options.txt before Load replaces it. Learn where the backups are, how many are kept and how to put one back.

Before Settings Saver overwrites an instance's existing options.txt, it copies the file into the store. By the end of this guide you can find that copy and put it back.

When backups are made#

• When you press Load settings from profile.
• At every launch of an instance in the Auto + always apply sync mode.

A new instance that gets the profile on its first launch has no options.txt yet, so nothing is backed up then. Save never changes the instance, so it makes no backup either.

Where they are#

Backups are in backups/vanilla/ inside the store. Each file is named <date>-<time>-<instance>-options.txt, for example:

20261105-214233-117-5f2a9c1e-options.txt

The first part is when the backup was made (year, month, day, then hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds). The second part is a short code for the instance's folder: backups from the same instance share it.

Settings Saver keeps the newest 5 backups in total, across all instances, and deletes older ones. Change the number with backups in the global config. backups=0 turns backups off.

Steps#

1. Close the game whose settings you want to restore.
2. Open backups/vanilla/ in the store and pick the backup by its date and time.
3. Copy it into the instance's game folder (the folder with mods and saves) and rename it to options.txt, replacing the file there.
4. Start the game.