User node bin in 2025

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Hi. I’m trying to reinstall my user node bin from 2024 to 2025, with my dears custom nodes. Using new path for 2025, it does not load. Trying to load them manully does not work either. It could be due to the new json format?. My overlays didn’t work neither, and I had to rebuild them manually. Please tell me that I have not lost everything.

2

I wound up opening 2024.1 and dragging them into a batch, copying that batch to 2025 and recreating the custom nodes. Doesn’t take too long.

3

Sure, but I updated OS to 9.3. So, install 2024 is not an option. :unamused:

4

flame 2025 user bins appear to be working for me:

/home/$USER/flame/batch/pref/user_batch_custom.flame.bins
/home/$USER/flame/batch/pref/user_batch.bin

can you locate the batch groups that you were previously using?

e.g.
/home/$USER/flame/batch/pref/_user.Sweat
/home/$USER/flame/batch/pref/_user.Sweat.batch
/home/$USER/flame/batch/pref/_user.Tinyplanet
/home/$USER/flame/batch/pref/_user.Tinyplanet.batch

then edit the user_batch.bin file with a text editor:


{
    "NodeBin": [
        {
            "NodeLine": [
                {
                    "NodeType": "Custom",
                    "Setup": "Sweat",
                    "Version": 10000
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "NodeLine": [
                {
                    "NodeType": "Custom",
                    "Setup": "Tinyplanet",
                    "Version": 10000
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
5

no, it does not have that structure… because it’s from 2024 version.

6

So this appears to be the expected tree structure and file formatting for 2025.

If you do not have the ability to fall back to 2024 as @Hengy suggested, then you might try modifying a text file or two in a text editor.

If you have access to the batch groups you can try loading them from within the batch module.

7

Thank you for offering to help, phil. I spent last two hours editing manually user_batch.bin file. I create first one node, and then I repeated and checked over and over again. replicating the structure to recover all my nodes (I had a lot ). btw, for me, “version” number is not 10000, is 9990.

It has been very painful. I would have liked to have seen some warning about this issue.

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@kily - good work - sometimes it’s less about the destination, and more about the journey.