Is there any way to save ALL of my wallpaper settings?

[Zayed]

I have a lot of wallpapers that i've downloaded for last year (about 3.8k). For some reason my wallpaper engine broke and from last month it wont download "something" on 99%. I have tried find in google that issue but nothing can help me. So i decided just reinstall WE. And only because i have 3.8k wallpapers i wondering about 1 question - how do i can save my wallpaper settings? I mean, for almost 60%+ of them settings been set by manually and it will be real pain in the ass to set it manually again. So, how do i can save them and load back when will reinstall app?

[Zayed]

By the way, after the problem with 99%, when I want to unsubscribe from the wallpaper, Wallpaper Engine (or steam, I don't know) does not uninstall what I unsubscribed from - this is another reason why I need to reinstall the application (verifying files, clearing the cache, disabling the antivirus - all does not help)

[Zayed]

Ok. I guess my problem with all presets solved. As i get, all settings i can backup from config file in WE folder. But anyway, can someone explain why things with 99% appears? It's look like: Starting download -> Error - > Repeat (https://imgur.com/a/hsBsCMG). And yeah, still can't understand why steam can't delete unsubscribed wallpapers.

[Tim]

Hey, sorry for the late reply. So yeah, the easiest way is to backup the config.json in the wallpaper_engine directory. It will continue to work as long as your Windows user name stays the same.

Regarding your download issues, usually a clean reinstallation fixes these Steam issues. The issues you described usually happen because either you have manually deleted or moved any Workshop files or because your antivirus app has in the past blocked some Workshop files (usually by mistake). Disabling your antivirus app will not fix this, as the damage has been done already.

If you decide to reinstall the app, you might want to manually delete the Workshop folder for Wallpaper Engine just to make sure that it's really fully gone. By default, it is located here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\431960

If you continue to have issues, you may want to tell your antivirus app to ignore certain directories, usually antivirus apps freak out on partially downloaded files, so make sure to tell it to ignore all of these folders:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\downloads
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\temp

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\downloading

These folders only contain temporary files while they are being downloaded, so it's safe to ignore them. If you only stick to Scene and Video wallpapers, you can also ignore the entire Steam directory, that will speed things up.

[Zayed]

Originally posted by Tim:

Hey, sorry for the late reply. So yeah, the easiest way is to backup the config.json in the wallpaper_engine directory. It will continue to work as long as your Windows user name stays the same.

Regarding your download issues, usually a clean reinstallation fixes these Steam issues. The issues you described usually happen because either you have manually deleted or moved any Workshop files or because your antivirus app has in the past blocked some Workshop files (usually by mistake). Disabling your antivirus app will not fix this, as the damage has been done already.

If you decide to reinstall the app, you might want to manually delete the Workshop folder for Wallpaper Engine just to make sure that it's really fully gone. By default, it is located here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\431960

If you continue to have issues, you may want to tell your antivirus app to ignore certain directories, usually antivirus apps freak out on partially downloaded files, so make sure to tell it to ignore all of these folders:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\downloads
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\temp

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\downloading

These folders only contain temporary files while they are being downloaded, so it's safe to ignore them. If you only stick to Scene and Video wallpapers, you can also ignore the entire Steam directory, that will speed things up.

Thanks for reply. Simple reinstallation helped with all issues