Backing-Up Your Favorites Folder

It’s always a good idea to back-up important files so that you can recover from “unexpected events” concerning your computer. We can’t even count the times we’ve had customers call in after their computer crashed and they lost all the patterns they spent hours making themselves.  All those patterns that you create or purchase are stored in your Favorites folder, and it can be backed up.

Setting up a Back-Up Location

There are several different places that you can back your files up to some of the ones that we recommend are Google Drive, Microsoft One Drive, Drop Box, a dedicated USB thumb drive, or an external hard drive. With many of these they have an automatic back-up option that you can set-up to have your Favorites File and Projects Folder automatically back-up on a preset schedule. For the USB thumb drive or external hard drive windows has built in back up features that you can use.

Back-up from Windows XP-7

From your main desktop click on the Windows icon in the lower left corner of the screen, then select where it has your name or account name in the upper right-hand corner of the start menu. This will put you in your user directory and you should see a folder named CarveWright, double click this folder to open it. In side this folder you will see a file named Favorites.mpn or just Favorites, this is where all of the work that you save to your favorites in designer in saved to (Under the blue sea shell icon in your project designer software). Once you have this file located use the back up service of your choice to copy this file to. You will also want to back-up the folder where you save all of your project files to your selected back-up location.

Back-up from Windows 8-10

Open Windows Explorer (the icon that looks like a manilla folder on your desktop or taskbar), locate your C drive (should be named C:, This PC (C:), or This Computer(C:)). In your C: drive locate the User folder and open it, then find your user account and open it. You should see a folder named CarveWright, double click this folder to open it. In side this folder you will see a file named Favorites.mpn or just Favorites, this is where all of the work that you save to your favorites in designer in saved to (Under the blue sea shell icon in your project designer software). Once you have this file located use the back-up service of your choice to copy this file to. You will also want to back-up the folder where you save all of your project files to your selected back-up location.

Back-up From MacOS

Select Go from your Finder bar and select Computer, next you will select your main disk drive (OSX) and open it. You will need to find your User folder and then select your user account and open it. You will find the folder named Library you need to open this folder. You should see a folder named CarveWright, double click this folder to open it. In side this folder you will see a file named Favorites.mpn or just Favorites, this is where all of the work that you save to your favorites in designer in saved to (Under the blue sea shell icon in your project designer software). Once you have this file located use the back-up service of your choice to copy this file to. You will also want to back-up the folder where you save all of your project files to your selected back-up location.

To restore it, just copy that file from your backup location to the original location as outlined above, after your computer is fixed!