Backup
- how do I move everything to a new computer
- where do I make a backup of my settings
- can I restore my settings from a copy
- does it make copies on its own
- does it save my settings by itself or do i have to remember
- i restored my settings and half the sections are missing
- my hotkeys do not work on the new pc
Where it is
Everything is under Settings → Backup. Two ways to keep a copy: a file on the computer, and a snapshot in the cloud. The contents are identical — the cloud is just another place to put the same thing.
What is in a copy
Installed modules and their versions, every module setting, and the app's own settings — language, base currency, sound volumes, the control panel layout, style templates. Optionally, statistics as well.
What is never in a copy: platform sign-ins, stream keys, passwords and API tokens. This is deliberate and permanent, and not only a policy decision — those are encrypted with a Windows account key, so on another machine they would be unreadable anyway.
After restoring on a new computer, all platforms have to be signed in again. Expect it; nothing is broken.
Signing in on the new computer signs the old one out. Twitch, YouTube, Kick and the donation services allow one active sign-in per account, so the moment you connect a platform on the second machine, the first one stops receiving from it — chat goes quiet, the bot stops answering, donations stop arriving. Nothing is broken there either, and the fix is the same in reverse: sign in again on whichever machine you want to stream from.
If you stream from one computer and play on another, keep this in mind before moving settings: the two machines cannot hold the same platform account at the same time.
Sounds and images are not in the copy either. Settings point to files on disk — alert sounds, images, the voice model — and the snapshot carries the settings, not the files. The export screen counts how many settings reference files so you know whether there is anything to copy; the folders themselves are under %APPDATA%\straimer (sounds, images, tts) and are copied by hand.
Logs are never included either.
File or cloud
| File | Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| strAImer account | not needed | required |
| Subscription | not needed | required to upload; downloading always works |
| Our server | not needed | required |
| How many kept | manual files are never deleted | 5 per account |
The Free plan has no cloud storage at all — its quota is zero, so uploads are refused even for a tiny snapshot. Lite, Pro and Ultra include 200 MB, 1 GB and 3 GB.
Cloud copies are not encrypted, and the app says so on that screen. They contain commands, scenarios and donation history.
Restoring
Choose a file or press Restore on a cloud copy. A confirmation appears first, showing the snapshot's date, app version and how many settings it holds. The current state is always saved to a file first, automatically, and its path is shown afterwards — a restore can always be undone.
Restoring merges rather than wipes: existing settings are overwritten, statistics are added with duplicates skipped, so restoring the same file twice does not double the history.
Which modules run comes back too, and in both directions. The snapshot records whether each module was on or off, and the restore brings this machine to that state: what was running is started, and what you had switched off on the other computer is switched off here as well. Only modules named in the snapshot are touched — anything this machine has that the snapshot never heard of is left exactly as it was.
A restored panel layout needs the window reloaded. The app says so — "The Control Panel layout came with the backup. Reload the window to see it." — and offers Reload now. Until then the panel keeps showing the layout this machine had before.
Restore refused
- "This file is not a strAImer settings snapshot" or "missing the expected sections" — wrong or damaged file.
- "made by a newer version of the app" — update strAImer first.
- "made after a database update that this copy has not applied yet" — same answer: update, then restore. Older snapshots restore into newer versions without complaint.
Modules that were not installed
A module present in the snapshot but missing on this machine gets its settings restored and its record created switched off, with no files. The "Settings restored" window lists them and offers to fetch them: the button says Install missing modules.
They are downloaded one at a time, with Installing module 1 of 3… on the page as it goes, and the result is reported as Installed 3 of 3 modules. Anything that failed is named, and one failure does not stop the rest. The reload prompt follows, because the panel tiles of those modules appear only after it.
Declining is fine. The settings stay in the database and are picked up whenever the module arrives, whether you install it a minute later or next month.
They arrive switched off. The restore recorded them off, and installing does not change that, so turn them on afterwards — the "Module Catalog" guide, section "Turning a module on and off", says where the switch is.
The hotkey helper has to be finished by hand
Whether the helper is on travels in the snapshot. The Windows scheduled task it runs from does not — that is not a setting but an object on the old computer.
So on the new machine the helper looks switched on and nothing fires in games. The page says it plainly: "The helper is on in your settings, but it has not been set up on this computer yet. Turn it on to finish — Windows will ask for administrator rights once." The button beside that line says Turn on, and pressing it finishes the setup instead of switching the helper off. Where that page is: the "Control Panel" guide, section "Hotkeys".
Save on exit
Off by default — this is the usual reason there are no automatic copies. When switched on, a copy is made when strAImer closes, at most once an hour, and it gives up after 15 seconds so it cannot delay shutdown. The last 5 automatic files are kept; manual exports and the pre-restore safety copies are never rotated away.
If the target is set to the cloud but the account is not signed in, the copy is skipped silently.
After a subscription ends
New uploads stop, but downloading and restoring keep working. Statistics are stripped from stored snapshots after 30 days and the snapshots themselves are deleted after a year. The app warns 30 days ahead.
Not available
There is no scheduled backup — the only moment is closing the app. There is no partial restore: it is the whole snapshot or nothing. There is no password on the local file, and no live syncing between two running computers.
Nothing outside strAImer's own database travels. Sound and image files, and Windows objects such as the hotkey helper's scheduled task, are not carried over — you put them in place on the new machine yourself.