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Moving Kustos, or reinstalling Windows

The same files, in the same order, with one addition.

  1. Install Kustos on the new machine and let it start once, so the folders exist. The same version or newer is fine — a backup taken on an older build catches up on startup. Only going backwards to an older build is a problem, for the reason in the section above.
  2. Stop the service there.
  3. Copy the old machine's kustos.db — or a backup from backups\ — into %ProgramData%\Kustos\, and delete any -wal and -shm beside it.
  4. Copy your assets folder, your font folders, Kustos Asset Backups (it sits beside the assets folder) and %ProgramData%\Kustos\overlay-base. The database records what is in them; it does not contain them, so a database without them leaves Kustos pointing at artwork that is not there.
  5. Start the service and check Connections — the services are in the database, so they should all still be there. Anything stored outside the database, such as a file path that only exists on the old machine, needs re-pointing.