I keep losing my playlists

[square721bt]

Since updating to Windows 11, I keep losing my playlists and often when I make a new one and save it, it doesn't show up. It keeps going back to one playlist, which is named like an older playlist I had but has maybe 1/10 of the stuff I put in it. Playlists seem to disappear every time there's an update to the app. Any idea what's going on?

[Capt.Luke]

I think its because you never actualy closed the app properly with your playlist saved at least once.

does looks likes a admin permission problem

[square721bt]

The playlists were fine for years in Windows 10. To be clear - these aren't newly made playlists, they disappeared after an update. I've recreated them several times, and they last for a few days, and then disappear.

[square721bt]

Looking through the config.json, it looks like there's 13 different lists in there, all with the same name? I tried putting an incrementer after the name but they're still not showing up, there must be a manifest in there somewhere?

Nevermind, looks like all the names reverted back after restarting.

This is obnoxious man.

[Biohazard]

Originally posted by square721bt:

Nevermind, looks like all the names reverted back after restarting.

This is obnoxious man.

You first need to close the program. If you edit it while the program is running then it will simply overwrite it when it needs to.

[square721bt]

AS STATED: I AM CLOSING THE PROGRAM

I MADE THESE EDITS DIRECTLY IN THE JSON WITH THE PROGRAM CLOSED AND IT STILL REVERTED THEM BACK. EVERY TIME I MAKE A NEW PLAYLIST, IT SAVES INSIDE THE CONFIG.JSON AS THE SAME PLAYLIST. I HAVE 13 PLAYLISTS LISTED ALL WITH THE SAME NAME. IF I RENAME THEM DIRECTLY IN THE JSON USING A TEXT EDITOR WHEN THE PROGRAM OPENS AGAIN THE NAMES ARE REVERTED BACK. YOU HAVE A BUG.

[Biohazard]

Please send us the config.json as an e-mail attachment here: [e-mail]

I cannot reproduce playlists getting lost and it's definitely not related to any program update or Windows 11.

Maybe something occurred in the past that made your config.json invalid, because you're not even supposed to be able to have multiple playlists with the same name. So please share the config.json then perhaps we can see what's going on.

Originally posted by square721bt:

Nevermind, looks like all the names reverted back after restarting.

This is simply not possible unless the config.json was invalid, so it loaded a backup, or if the program (the background program) wasn't fully closed while you manually edited the file. There is just no way that it would rename your playlists arbitrarily for no reason, i.e. where would it pull the old name from?

That's why I have suggested that it wasn't fully closed.

[square721bt]

Zipped with all config backups and sent.

[Biohazard]

Thanks. Please change the option "monitor identification" to "layout" in the settings of Wallpaper Engine and then assign the playlist once more.

It looks like only one playlist is saved under the name "big" but I can't really tell if this playlist is the only one that you assigned to both monitors. If you have different playlists assigned to both monitors, just save them both under their own name first, then you can easily load them after changing the monitor identification option.

Across your most recent config and previous configs the identification of your monitors seem to be inconsistent and the "layout" option will simply completely ignore whatever Windows says about the monitor names/order and produce its own which should avoid such issues unless you frequently change the monitor order in Windows.