Transfert launcher to a new computer
lucephile opened this issue · 2 comments
Hello,
Quick explain :
My SSD crashed and I needed to install a new OS and in consequence a new GW2Launcher
I've lost my previous GW2launcher datas so far.
My accounts got the authentificator set up with the previous GW2Launcher configuration.
how can I activate the authentificator with the new configuration ?
Other question :
I will run a software to gather data on my old SSD. If I manage to gather some files what are the important files to transfer to the new configuration?
Have a nice day
Do you mean - how do you recover the authenticator key? If you didn't keep a copy of it, you can't. You'll need to contact support to remove the authenticator if you're unable to recover it.
%appdata%\Gw2Launcher\settings.dat is where all settings are stored. If you can recover it, make a copy of it (keep a backup) and place it in the same location on the new drive, then start Gw2Launcher. This is the only way you can recover the authenticator keys if you didn't keep a copy. Note passwords will be lost, as they're encrypted by default to the user.
There are also backups of settings.dat under %appdata%\Gw2Launcher\backups
Local.dat and GFXSettings.xml can be found under the data folder, but they're not really important. Note passwords remembered by GW2 will be lost, as they're encrypted to the user.
Thank you for your help
I've manage to recover the setting.dat file
the authentificator seems to work again now
I will check if i can dig some additional files
Thank you for your help
have a nice day