🛑 Lightburn File Organization and Disaster Recovery

[@Edwinpbennett]

Thanks how are you doing? I’m having a bed day unfortunately mind is on but body forgot the message. Well here comes a learning day thanks

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Good morning Edwin! I know the feeling!

[@RobSandstromDesigns]

Another valuable video that people don't think about until the crisis hits.

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Absolutely Rob!

[@davidelder5399]

Another great video, Rich, explained in easy to follow instructions. I have to be honest & say i don't back up enough. You just frightened me with that one word in the title DISASTER 😮

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Yeah, you should be David! 😨😩💀

[@louisjones5459]

Thank You I learn something every time I watch you.

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

You are so welcome Louis! I appreciate that, *thanks!*

[@LarryDMitchell]

I just finished the update and it worked great. One thing I added was a text document in the main Lightburn folder. In that file I put a link to this video so when I need to update the backup it will be easier. Thanks for the information.

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Great tip, thanks!

[@andrewvanderweg5075]

Well done on explaining this in simple terms for all to understand

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Thanks so much Andrew!

[@russdixon614]

Thanks Rich, I never knew about the load prefs backup

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

YW! It can solve lots of problems really fast Russ.

[@jamesgreene3201]

Well now, I've been doing backups for the past 2 years, but I do mine on a 4TB external SSD. I would have thought that everyone was running backup programs !! Excellent video, very concise and easy to understand and follow.

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Thanks for watching! When I used to do remote support, I never had a single person who backed up their files or had them organized.

[@luvwud]

Learn to be organized. It helps in so many thing. Nice one Rich. Geoff

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Thanks Geoff! And yes, you really can't do this without being organized. Coming from the computer world of coding, file organization and backup are the top 2 priorities at any job.

[@PeterBaxter-fq8yz]

Hi Rich, another great easily understood video. Thanks

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Awesome! 👍 Thanks for watching!

[@merrillalbury8214]

See you Saturday about 9 p.m.. Have a fairwell engagement on Saturday at 5 p.m.. hope i am back at 9.

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

See you then!

[@stevealbums7897]

Thanks Stwve

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

YW!

[@baldeagle5297]

I usually do most of my designs on my laptop while I recline on the couch, I've got a bad back. My old Surface Pro is connected to the laser out in my workshop. I put my files in Dropbox to share between them.

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Cloud services work well. All of my files for Lightburn also backup to Google Drive.

[@georgeknight1645]

Another great video, have had any trouble yet haha . Great to know thank you Rich

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Glad to help George!

[@sicciful]

he rich that was very interesting video thank you

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@LarryDMitchell]

Good video. I'm a computer nerd and backup often to thumb drives. I didn't know about the Prefs so I'm going to be sure to update that section. Thanks

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Awesome! 👍 Thanks for watching!

[@deragoo3624]

Thank you Rich

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Thanks for watching!

[@pelletigable]

Merci!

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Vous êtes les bienvenus! Merci pour votre soutien!

[@dave48a]

Thanks!

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Thanks so much for the support Dave!

[@prestonian1066]

I have definitely had a disaster. Decided to arrange all of my files in LB and was almost finished adding some art under the heading of Xmas (hundreds of files in there). I made a mistake and added a wrong file, so highlighted it and hit unload. It unloaded my entire Xmas library and now is nowhere to be found. Tried *lba and it didn't actually bring up that many files, considering that I have loads of them. None of the Xmas ones were there. Ironically, I only started this task to backup everything in case I had a disaster lol. I suppose it's back to the drawing board!

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

If there are hundreds of them, you have to just wait! Type *.lbart and go get get some coffee! It will absolutely find all of them! Remember too, you're searching that one drive you selected! If you have more than one drive, you have to search the other ones as well.

[@prestonian1066]

Ok TY I will do that and grab a coffee :)@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

[@prestonian1066]

Thanks Rich, that all worked a treat. Just spent an entire day and a half gathering every single file and getting them in order before backing up. Which I now know how do do properly thanks to your video! The only thing I haven't had a chance to do yet is make a decent materials library. I noticed you had some but couldn't find any for the Falcon 22w. Is there a suitable ready made alternative that I could just tinker with and fine tune? @@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

On my free forum there are many starter libraries in the members only section. lahobbyguy.com/bb

[@patdennis4576]

Great this part confuses me, but your helping thanks! Senior moment what are templates???? May seem a silly question but i do need clarification, thanks pat

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Don't feel silly Pat, templates are basically pre-made designs you can reuse! You use the save, or save as option from the file menu, and everything in you work area is saved as a Lightburn file.

[@hwy70]

Hi Rich love what you do, I tried this method but had no success, the only thing that loaded was the printer I had to do the other libraries manually. Went step by step according to your video and did not have the same success. Note trying to do this with a fresh install on a new computer. Dunno if that makes a difference?

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

I don't know why. Maybe you didn't select the proper drive to search? I can't give advice without know what wasn't successful.

[@dawnabbott3783]

Hi Rich, another dumb question probably. What is the difference between the art files and template files?

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Art files are in an Art Library, templates are actual Lightburn files.

[@patdennis4576]

So where you save jobs , files in lightburne thats what you call templates?

[@terrytharrett9033]

Rich, I have separate computers with Lightburn in separate locations. One is fully loaded with my ART files, the other has very few. I have made recovery flash drives for both. Would I be able to copy the ART file from one recovery flash drive to the other? Thanks Terry

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Yes, absolutely! Or you can upload them to Google Drive and access them that way.

[@davidsmith8853]

Rich, I'm a complete nub to both lasers and I'm NOT a computer guy. I started the free trial with lightburn, named my laser but I'm getting an error message that there's no "Homing cycle occuring". I'm lost. Been trying to find help but nothing has a fix that I've been able to find. ANY help...a push in the right direction is appreciated! Thanks for that and the great videos!

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Turn off auto home on startup in the device settings.

[@davidsmith8853]

@@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy Thanks so much!

[@stevespringer8385]

Great very helpful video Rich. In the Art Library, is there a way to create subfolders to group like files, rather than having an ever-extending list of files? Thanks

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Yes Steve. On my main drive, I have several dozen sub-folders, like holiday, birthday, toys, gifts, etc. Even those folders have sub-folders. I will also be asking Jason to add sub-folders to the Art Library tab soon, when I interview him on the channel. That would really make life so much easier, loading a folder with subs just once.

[@stevespringer8385]

That would be a great help in organizing the Art Library Thanks Rich

[@merrillalbury8214]

So the items i have in various folders, ie. Hobo, LA, etc, i can find all these and move to a single lightburn art folder.

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Yes you can.

[@johndiego3105]

I have the USB that came with the 10watt LaerMatic, do I need to put all those settings on a new USB?

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

No, the USB has a .lbset file John. You may want to backup your Art libraries though if you have any.

[@Humble-Engine]

Random question, do you know how to create an accent a or n in lightburn? I appreciate your assistance as I have an order that is requesting this for personalization and I’m searching for this solution with no luck.

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Yes, watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/poPXoJR-Z6-Spck

[@srflow2]

Rich, I downloaded Lightburn to my new Laptop. Copied the files from my usb to the C drive and when I go to Load Perfs Backup . They don't show up in the list. Any suggestions.

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

I don't know...

[@srflow2]

I just set up my flash drive just as you showed. I have to put it on a new laptop. Do I need to download lightburn on the new laptop first? I don’t have my activation code from lightburn anymore ☹️

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Here's where your account is managed: lightburn.cryptlex.app/auth/login You can have 2 computers running Lightburn.

[@pethuds]

How often do you back up your prefs files or does it do it automatically

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

It does an automatic backup every time you make changes.

[@pethuds]

Thank you

[@IceCreams62]

TMEPLATES !!!!!

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Yep, I save every file I create as a template.