# Restoring Archive's Setups blasts all prefs? (a warning)

**URL:** <https://forum.logik.tv/t/restoring-archives-setups-blasts-all-prefs-a-warning/6137>\
**Category:** Flame Questions\
**Tags:** randy, archive, color-management, action, batch\
**Created:** [June 22, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/restoring-archives-setups-blasts-all-prefs-a-warning/6137 "2022-06-22T16:27:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![andy\_dill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/andy_dill/32/47_2.png) [@andy\_dill](https://forum.logik.tv/u/andy_dill)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/restoring-archives-setups-blasts-all-prefs-a-warning/6137/1 "2022-06-22T16:27:35Z")

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I’m working on a job and another artist archived their setups. I loaded their archive and used the “restore setups” function, as that was the only thing in the archive (we’re not moving media via archive)

It appears this button is actually “replace all current color management prefs, bookmarks, etc” and not, you know “restore batch setups” and holy fuck does that suck.

Would love for that button to be called something else, like “load prefs from archive” since the term “setup” is, at least in the circles I run in, synonymous with effects setups.

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**Author:** ![paul\_round](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/paul_round/32/389_2.png) [@paul\_round](https://forum.logik.tv/u/paul_round)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/restoring-archives-setups-blasts-all-prefs-a-warning/6137/2 "2022-06-22T17:12:37Z")

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Or, “replace all your shit with someone elses!”  
I’ve been burned with that too, I always start a new project for when I need to restore setups.

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**Author:** ![johnt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/johnt/32/14040_2.png) [@johnt](https://forum.logik.tv/u/johnt)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/restoring-archives-setups-blasts-all-prefs-a-warning/6137/3 "2022-06-23T22:05:28Z")

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**Author:** ![kily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kily](https://forum.logik.tv/u/kily)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/restoring-archives-setups-blasts-all-prefs-a-warning/6137/4 "2022-06-23T22:27:03Z")

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Did it replace your setups files also?

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**Author:** ![andy\_dill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/andy_dill/32/47_2.png) [@andy\_dill](https://forum.logik.tv/u/andy_dill)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/restoring-archives-setups-blasts-all-prefs-a-warning/6137/6 "2022-06-24T09:16:14Z")

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Not the batch setups as far as I can tell. I was manually saving them to a nonstandard location.