Backup and Restore - FontExpert

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Backup and Restore	Contents

To create a backup of the FontExpert database and font groups, choose Tools/Create Backup... from the main menu.

FontExpert can copy to backup: the database, the font groups, the fonts in Windows Fonts folder and the fonts referenced in FontExpert database.

The backup file is regular ZIP file and you can open and preview this file as any other ZIP file.

By default, FontExpert includes all fonts in all folders referenced in the FontExpert database, thus all folders where you earlier previewed fonts. The database may include references to folders that were deleted long time ago, or to folders you do not need to include to backup. Before doing a backup you can check the folders referenced in the database and remove unlinked folders. See Database Maintenance for more information.

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You can create a backup on Windows XP computer and restore the backup on Windows 7 or Windows Vista computer. Your user name (account name) on two computers could be different, but FontExpert can restore the backup created under different user account and on a computer with different version of Windows.

If all your fonts are located within My Documents folder, the Restore from Backup feature will restore fonts also to My Documents, although the real path to this folder could be different on the target computer, depending on the user account name and the version of Windows.

To restore FontExpert database and groups from backup, choose Tools/Restore from Backup... from the main menu.

The backup file keeps the information about logical disks existed on the computer where the backup was created. If some logical disk does not exist on a target computer (where the backup is restored), FontExpert creates a separate folder for the fonts from non-existing logical disk and restores fonts to this folder. If you know that you already have a duplicate folder with the same fonts, you can re-link the database folder references to existing folder on local disk. This will ensure that keywords, categories, ratings and captions will be correctly restored and assigned to existing fonts, see Database Maintenance for more information.

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If you keep all your fonts in font groups and install fonts without copying to Windows Fonts folder (this option is default in FontExpert), most of fonts in the standard Windows Fonts folder are the fonts that come with Windows.
By default, FontExpert copies all these standard fonts from Windows Fonts folder to backup, but when you do a restore from backup, ask yourself, do you need to restore them.

For example, if you created backup on Windows XP computer, and restoring the backup on Windows 7 computer, the set of standard Windows fonts already exists in Windows 7 Fonts folder.