Starting Over Again
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If something has gone wrong with your user setup (not JMRI itself) and you just want to start over, here's what you need to do.
Starting over is really easy. ?You just have to delete the contents of one directory. ?It’s getting everything back that takes some time.
1) Backups! You particularly want the contents of your Settings directory tree, your Profile directory tree, and your User Files directory tree.
2) Another set of backups!
3) If you have a roster in DecoderPro or PanelPro, open it and do a File -> Export Complete Roster, putting that file somewhere safe.
4) Did I mention backups??
5) Open each profile that you’ll want to recreate and write down the communications settings, along with any other settings you’ve changed: Startup actions, etc. ?If the profile is loading one or more files, make sure you have copies of those.
6) Take a copy of the idtags/PanelProIdTags.xml file from each profile (this is the auto-save, auto-load file for the tags and event names)
7) And make sure you have backups.
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To clean out your JMRI user data, all you have to do is:
8) with JMRI not running, go the the settings directory and erase _all_ its contents. ?
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Now to rebuild - stop immediately and ask JMRIusers for help if anything seems fishy
9) Start PanelPro and go through the startup wizard. ?When you get a preferences window, save and restart
10) Configure this first profile for communications, save and restart, confirm somehow (maybe look at the Monitor) that it’s talking. This is just a confirmation that we know how to do that.
11) Open Preferences -> Config Profiles and set it up to show the selection dialog on startup. Save and restart.
12) When the preferences box comes up, click New, name your new profile, and then configure the com preferences. ?Save, restart
13) Check communications again. Stop JMRI.
14) Start with an _empty_ directory where you want to have your user files, e.g. on your computer, DropBox or OneDrive. ?Put your panel files there. ?
15) Put the idtags/PanelProTags.xml directory and file in that user directory.
16) Start JMRI and configure the roster and user file location (the walks you through that)
17) Configure your start up items: ?Loading, opening windows, etc. ?Save and restart.
18) If you had a roster in step 3, open DecoderPro or PanelPro Roster, go to File -> Import Entire Roster and import it.
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And you’re done. Only 18 easy steps!
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