[How to] arma profile backup & restore

[Stanhope]

Here is a quick guide on how to create a backup for your arma profile and how to restore your profile from a backup.

1: Creating a backup

First you'll need to find the profile you want to back-up.  Typically your profile will be stored at one of the following 2 locations:

C:\Users\yourUser\Documents\Arma 3

C:\Users\yourUser\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\yourProfile

 

In those folders you'll find these files:
  

Yours will not have Stanhope in them but your profile name.  Those 3 files contain all your profile settings/preferences/...  Copy paste those files into a seperate folder, preferably not in a profile folder, for example:

root, stan & Stanhope are 3 profiles I use, backup contains backups from those profiles.  

 

2: Recovering your profile from a back-up:
Locate where you saved those 3 files on your disk and copy paste them into your profile folder, overwriting any and all files with the same name.  These folders can be located in:
C:\Users\yourUser\Documents\Arma 3 (default profile)
C:\Users\yourUser\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\yourProfile (custom profiles)

 

3: As a little bonus:
If you want to copy a profile you can create a new one in arma and copy paste those 3 files into your new profile folder.  Rename them so they have the same nickname and you copy pasted your profile.  (There are a few other ways of doing this but this is how I do it.)

 

Questions, comments, suggestions, ... bellow.

 

PS: could someone move this to the guides section pretty please?

[Mad Eye Moody]

That’s excellent, thank you. Now another request: due to a cock up I need to totally delete armasync and re install it and then. Currently, and due to my thumb fisted efforts, when I try to start arma 3/AhoyWorld eu1 or 2 from armasync I get the message connection timed out. If I try and join directly from steam with no mods I can get onto the server. I need a totally fresh download. When I try to do that it just loads the old mods etc with the same joining result.


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[Stanhope]

14 minutes ago, Mad Eye Moody said:

Now another request:

I think it's better if you were to ask this in one of the topics specifically dedicated to arma 3 sync and the mods you can run on EU1:
 

 

[Amentes]

23 minutes ago, Mad Eye Moody said:

That’s excellent, thank you. Now another request: due to a cock up I need to totally delete armasync and re install it and then. Currently, and due to my thumb fisted efforts, when I try to start arma 3/AhoyWorld eu1 or 2 from armasync I get the message connection timed out. If I try and join directly from steam with no mods I can get onto the server. I need a totally fresh download. When I try to do that it just loads the old mods etc with the same joining result.


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Start off by trying to run ArmA through A3Sync, without using the A3Sync Join Server functionality.

 

Once ArmA runs, use Direct Connect with IP 144.76.82.169:2302 to join EU#1.

[Mad Eye Moody]

No good, I cannot select my profile. All I get in DEFAULT on the drop down menu. I need to delete armasync and start again.

 

[Stanhope]

Arma 3 profiles and arma3sync profiles are not the same thing.  Your issue is with arma 3 sync, please ask your question in one of the topic I've linked above.  This for 2 reasons: 1 to keep this topic on topic and 2 people with similar issues as you won't look for the answer in the wrong place, they'll look in the right place, so one of the topics I've linked above.

[Mad Eye Moody]

Ok cheers. Done that now.


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