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<blockquote data-quote="Paranoid Delusion" data-source="post: 863113" data-attributes="member: 13176">If you are worried, then backup the Mediaportal folders (always a good idea), both program and data, so I have in a backup hdd, with a folder named mediaportal with 2 new folders, one name Program and the other Data, I then copy each section of Mp to its appropriate folder, data will take sometime to move as its loads of little files, so be prepared. &nbsp;These can be found at these addresses on a 32bit system.&nbsp;C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortalC:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal&nbsp;You need to stop mptray which you will find in the systray if you are using that.&nbsp;TVServer settings are maintained by the SQL program, ie MySQL, so nothing to backup.&nbsp;The only thing I would say, is reinstall all the latest version of plugins\skins (use the desktop MP extensions installer to do that), then if the worst happens, just restore the main folders from the Program Data folder you have backed up, ie Database and Thumbs folders, this will pretty much put back a working system in around about 1 hour, but with all brand new program\plugin files.&nbsp;This may seem overkill, but beilieve me it makes restoring a not working install easy.&nbsp;Once fully updated and working, you might then want to backup the new installation just in case.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paranoid Delusion, post: 863113, member: 13176"] If you are worried, then backup the Mediaportal folders (always a good idea), both program and data, so I have in a backup hdd, with a folder named mediaportal with 2 new folders, one name Program and the other Data, I then copy each section of Mp to its appropriate folder, data will take sometime to move as its loads of little files, so be prepared. These can be found at these addresses on a 32bit system. C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal You need to stop mptray which you will find in the systray if you are using that. TVServer settings are maintained by the SQL program, ie MySQL, so nothing to backup. The only thing I would say, is reinstall all the latest version of plugins\skins (use the desktop MP extensions installer to do that), then if the worst happens, just restore the main folders from the Program Data folder you have backed up, ie Database and Thumbs folders, this will pretty much put back a working system in around about 1 hour, but with all brand new program\plugin files. This may seem overkill, but beilieve me it makes restoring a not working install easy. Once fully updated and working, you might then want to backup the new installation just in case. [/QUOTE]

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