I'm not sure I understand your comments about profiles. Are you saying that someone might change something in a profile, then go to another profile or back to the main program but they

Hi all, A few things: Backing up settings somewhere: there is a facility in NVDA that will let add-ons react to settings save action. Using this facility, it is possible to create an add-on that will

Absolutely! 1 of the things I used to do when I was doing A T was to actually let students get themselves in trouble, because eventually it's gonna happen, & learning how to listen to the directions

- Chris, The problem being that I have heard both, and plenty. In the end, there is no solution here, there is just personal preference and optimal design as far as how users are, or are not,

Yeah, had that happen quite a lot. I do a lot of repairs, if you can track it to a broken hardware, busted drivers, a user error, something like them wanting something and then getting

That's what I have in mind, like the dialog in a word processor that only comes up when you close a document and don't save the changes. Gene

But more often than not users are left scratching their arse when something that was working before shutting down and now its completely screwed up today! How often have you heard that???

- Not that this couldn't work, but I can only imagine how annoying it would be and, even worse, how people would go into "autopilot mode" in regard to it and still mess things up by giving their

Yep more than one way to skin a cat and all. so in the case of my folder and my name: Xcopy "C:\Users\Sarah\AppData\Roaming\nvda" d:\dropbox\3backups\nvda then respond d , enter and away the copy

I still like to save automatically. However once you have your changes and defaults you probably are not going to do to much. Maybe have an option in nvda or an addon which will target

Yes, I forgot to include control. No matter how well you know a command, sometimes, you might still write it incorrectly and not catch the mistake when reviewing the message

That could certainly happen. Perhaps the best way to approach the problem is to keep the default behavior but have a dialog come up asking if you want to save the changes when the program

To the Membership: I left this topic open because I wanted those who wished to extend their well-wishes to Don to be able to do so. And I am still allowing it to remain open for that purpose. The

- I know that this is a typo, but for the sake of archival correctness, you mean NVDA + CTRL + R. The command you gave invokes NVDA OCR. I will correct the original post in the archive as well. --

- If what you create is specific to backing up the NVDA settings, I would encourage you to share it here. There are many who've never used XCOPY or ROBOCOPY and an example specific to keeping an

- The use of the individual user's %AppData% folder as the default location for "all things NVDA related to that user" has been the same for as long as I've been dealing with NVDA, so I don't expect

Must be nice not knowing you have it though. I have managed to avoid it though with omicron round the corner, and several festivals on the horizon, even though our alert system allows it I am going

- I am not trying to argue your central point, which is entirely valid, but I can say that I have seen, on more than one occasion, where those who've turned automatic save off wail mightily when hours

Just to add I’m probably going to write a batch file to at least start the xcopy process. This is actually good for when I know I have settings right and then I can use the reverse xcopy command to,

Oh squeak! Thanks! I’ll also be taking a look. Hopefully this procedure will remain the same throughout nvda versions.