Wallpaper settings/presets gone

[› Scud422]

Whenever I would change the settings for individual wallpapers, such as position and disabling mouse parallax, and then saved the playlist, those settings would be saved and remembered. I just moved my PC to a new house and now all the settings for all my wallpapers seem to have been reset to default.

[Biohazard]

The settings are stored based on the path to the wallpaper files and the monitor ID. Either the monitor or the location of the files must have changed.

If you didn't move the files, make sure you plugged the same monitor into the same port as before.

[› Scud422]

I plugged both my monitors into the same ports that they were plugged into previously.

After a bunch of testing now that I knew what to look for, I found the problem and a fix. For some reason my monitor ID (according to Wallpaper Engine in the config.json file) changed from:
DISPLAY#BNQ7F0E#5&2c5f82d7&1&UID264#{e6f07b5f-ee97-4a90-b076-33f57bf4eaa7} to:
DISPLAY#BNQ7F0E#5&2c5f82d7&1&UID268#{e6f07b5f-ee97-4a90-b076-33f57bf4eaa7}
So I did a find/replace for UID264 to UID268 in Notepad++ and that seemed to fix my issue.

[Tim]

If you continue to have this issue, try changing the "Monitor Identification" option in the General tab of the Wallpaper Engine settings to "GDI" (or read the help text by clicking on the question mark icon).

Usually this is caused by faulty graphics card drivers which keep re-assigning new IDs to your monitors, so a clean re-installation of your drivers may also help if the issue persists.

[Greenegarth]

Originally posted by › Scud422:

I plugged both my monitors into the same ports that they were plugged into previously.

After a bunch of testing now that I knew what to look for, I found the problem and a fix. For some reason my monitor ID (according to Wallpaper Engine in the config.json file) changed from:
DISPLAY#BNQ7F0E#5&2c5f82d7&1&UID264#{e6f07b5f-ee97-4a90-b076-33f57bf4eaa7} to:
DISPLAY#BNQ7F0E#5&2c5f82d7&1&UID268#{e6f07b5f-ee97-4a90-b076-33f57bf4eaa7}
So I did a find/replace for UID264 to UID268 in Notepad++ and that seemed to fix my issue.

how can i repare the UID to its previous value?, how did u know what was ur old UID?

[› Scud422]

I found a wallpaper that had its settings reset, found the line in the config.json file for that wallpaper, copied the line into a separate notepad, changed the settings for the wallpaper, re-opened the config.json file, re-found the same line, and then compared it to what I had copied.