Filter Forge - Moving FF3 to new system...

buccaneer

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I just bought a new Win 7 system, and have had a hellish time trying to move FF3 from older Win 7 system. I tried to do it as follows:

1) Installed FF3 on new system

2) Copied entire contents of C:\Users\MyAccount\AppData\Roaming\Filter Forge 3\ to USB key.

3) Copied info from USB key to equivalent C:\Users\.. .\ folder on new system

4) Compared both folder contents which matched identically

All my filters survived the move, but the index no longer works. Even when I search by exact filter name, I either get totally wrong hits or no hits at all.

I think I've found the convergence point between Windows 7's dreadful user interface (just wait for Metro on the desktop!) and FF3's anemic filter browser.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can tell me how to rebuild the filter index.

Posted: April 13, 2012 11:46 pm

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SpaceRay

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Well I think that there is a easy way to rebuild the FF filter library list.

Go to C:\Users\MyAccount\AppData\Roaming\Filter Forge 3\System

Make a backup copy elsewhere of the file Librarystructure.xml and Delete the file from this folder.

Next time you open FF it will rebuild it and will find again all the filters in your library and should make it right and make again the index.

I did not have any problem when I moved from Windows XP to Windows 7, and I made the it the same way as you, so probably could be another additional problem.

Posted: April 14, 2012 2:46 am

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GMM
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SpaceRay wrote: Librarystructure.xml

Delete Librarystructure.xml and Library.xml, these files are interdependent.
Note that the next Filter Forge start is going to be slow because it re-indexes all your filters.

Posted: April 16, 2012 3:39 am

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SpaceRay

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