Like this if OBS has ever imploded on you and ruined your life. EDIT: For anyone who's wondering why OBS is no longer saving any changes to their scenes, the reason is because you don't have write access to your C:\Program Files\ folder. This solution to this is to (A) run OBS in admin mode (thus giving you write access) or (B) moving OBS out of your C:\Program Files\ directory entirely. I highly advise that you do (B) and move OBS into a cloud storage solution like Google Drive or Dropbox.
Well, now i got this Error msg: "Failed to get text from remote : The requested URL returned error : 404 Not Found" and cant connect my Twitch account... already reinstalled everything
I have watched so many of your videos, they’ve all taught me something! The last video I watched I was thinking to myself how the hell do you keep coming up with content? Not only that but how was it still so relevant and helpful so many years and videos later?! Thank you Nutty, you’re amazing please never stop posting! 🥺🥰
To access quickly to the APPDATA folder, here's a fast shortcut with your keyboard: WIN+R to fire up RUN, then type " %APPDATA% " (without quotes) and press enter. In this way you will avoid confusion, because the folder is hided by default. Enjoy! P.S. Nutty is the NUTS!
Thanks dastardly Dave for sending this to me sassily, after I spent 9 hours rebuilding obs yesterday. At least I’ll never have to go through that again 😅
Mr Nutty Lord, I saw your video 6 days ago and immediately thought I should really do this like right now. That same day, my OBS crashed!!! THE SAME DAY... Took me a couple of days to bring it back to almost what it was. Honestly, please people do this!
There's a nice little program called "Symlink Creator" that allows you to create junctions or symbolic links nice and easily. you can also store it on the cloud because it's essentially portable. A junction is exactly the same as creating shortcut, except the junction acts like it's not a shortcut, windows treats the junction shortcut like you created a new folder but the contents of that "new folder" (junction shortcut) is stored in a completely different folder. Windows will read a junction shortcut as having having memory but it won't take up space on the hard drive (if the source folder is on the cloud or on another hard drive). In essence, a junction is a folder that's content are stored else where.
holy shit the algorithm is inside my head because i have to reinstall OBS but have been waiting cause i really don't want to redo everything i've created over the last 2yrs. These steps (i hope) are going to help solve so many hours i was planning on spending on recreating stuff!!
The first time I was listening to you on the last three minutes of the video, I honestly did not understand it. But as I was just doing what you were teaching in the first part, it made sense to me. I never had to deal with the *missing* thing. Thanks for this tutorial. Now I won't have to worry about losing my OBS even if I switch PCs.
so i tried this too and got the same problem but i figured out what the problem was (for me at least) and hopefully it works for you all too. i created the file just like nutty, did not work - then i deleted the ".txt" so the file name is "obs_portable_mode" without the ".txt" and it works now - it just opened a blank OBS thingy and i am now continuing with the video (just thought because i was looking at comments for a solution earlier that i write this here) - hope it works! :)
I was going to use the junctions feature, but my assets were so ridiculously unorganized, this provided a good opportunity for me to clean things up. Looking forward to this going much easier moving forward!
Thank you so much! I am installing a new motherboard and CPU and needing to do a clean windows install. I was able to use your method and moved all my assets in to the OBS directory and am able to back everything up at once now. Hopefully I can just move my OBS to the new windows install and everything will work perfectly!
great video and very useful scripts, thank you. one thing to point out is that if "create-backup" script to be run as a scheduled task, then path to the portable obs folder needs to be specied in ":: Zip folders" section (to replace "*"). if not, it zips system32 folder instead :)
@6:11 I removed the pause function, since I just want it to close when it's done. I've also setup a multifunction on my stream deck, first open the cleanup file, then wake 2 seconds, then run the backup file. Thanks for this.
When I create the text file, drop it into the obs-studio folder then run obs. OBS wont run and instead I get a pop up that says error could not create folder "config"
I switched over to obs portable mode and everything seemed to be working fine, until I changed a few things in my scenes. now whenever I close and reopen obs none of the changes I made are there. Changes appear to be saving to my old roaming folder instead of the new config folder. I have to go back to my roaming folder and copy over the obs-studio folder into the new config folder inside of obs portable every time I change something. is there a way to make obs save to the new config folder instead of the old roaming obs-studio folder??
Couldn't you just backup your OBS-Studio folder and then replace it after If needed. ? Or in my case, let's say I wanted to do a clean install of Windows 11, then i would install OBS as normal, then delete that folder, then copy the backup folder and paste it in the same place as the deleted folder ?
So i made the config as instructed and then upgraded to OBS 30 and the config file is in there but OBS is loading as if its a brand new install and none of my settings are applying. I'm not sure what I did wrong.
Nutty i need a tutorial on how to un portable obs, i just did this portable tutorial to save my settings after a hardware issues. is theres a way to put it back on windows at it was in the past?
4:15 yeahhhh about that lol. Thankfully it was a fresh install anyways, so I just have to recreate the most basic of basic setup stuff. Every single time I would boot up OBS it would act as a new install. But damn why can't it be easier to just create a simple backup? Edit: So oddly enough I attempted to delete the obs folder, and move the backup zip to where the regular OBS folder was. At first I couldn't open it. So I attempted to reinstall it. Once it reinstalled it applied my settings back into the appdata folder and my settings are saved >.> I have no idea what has happened but I'll take it for now lol
My OBS didn't work at first time and I was like "well.. fuck ಠ_ಠ " Then I copied and pasted again the folder and I worked. That was just a quick mini heart attack here
Oh, ty, I already had my OBS settings backed up but you teached me about the portable mode which is better than backing the files. I don't need the script. That's on another hard drive now, so I SHOULD be good, if that hard drive don't break. I'm unable to find how to save my Streamlabs settings now mmhhhh, maybe the files are already in the main folder, in the other hard drive and not in C: ?
It's basically the standard to store settings in AppData. It basically allows you to reinstall programs and keep your data. Personally I like my programs to be portable wherever possible so I have full control over where all my data is.
Thank you for the detailed explanation! I know I'll be crucified for this question... but can you do anything similar on a Mac? Aaaaand... can you "sync" or move these OBS settings somehow (USB key, GDrive, anything) between Windows and Mac? (I am starting to assemble a more portable setup on my Mac laptop in addition to the Windows main one and searching for options.)
Is there an easy way to get a list of all asset files and their current location? I would happily do the manual process of saving to the asset folder as a backup and then always use that folder moving forward
Nutty! This was totally helpful I'm saving my settings when I switched over to my new PC build. HOWEVER, when you move the OBS folder, it throws off your Stream Deck plugins and they won't work anymore. I'm trying to follow Elgato's steps to remedy the situation, but it's not working. This might be disastrous 😭
@@spyco_tv were you able to fix yours? I ended up having to move the folder back to where it was in order for the stream deck to work, but then OBS started crashing in the middle of my streams. So, I uninstalled OBS completely, then reinstalled it and copied the folder with all my settings to where the new install of OBS had them. Thankfully, that worked. All of my stuff is working now and OBS hasn't crashed since.
This entirely destroyed my OBS. I entered the directory for the create-backup script to C:\Program Files\obs-studio as you told and the script only backed some AMD Drivers and other stuff on my C Drive eventually reaching 2GB, although my OBS Folder is only 400mb When afterwards trying to open OBS in admin Mode, everything was nuked and it reloaded a new instance of OBS asking me if i wanted to stream or record :O All gone
I did this and it worked but I lost the multi stream rtmp dock, couldn't get it back. Then I would remove the 'obs_portable_mode' blank folder out of the files and it would put the multi stream rtmp back, however, I would have a brand new OBS, everything else lost. Idk what to do besides wipe it all and start fresh
Okay so had issues at first but you need to create a txt file on your desktop first and then drag it into the obs folder for some reason it didn't work when creating the txt file from within the obs folder.
The AppData-folder might be hidden, it gave me half a heartattack. Try this in that case: To open the AppData folder on Windows 10, 8 & 7: Open File Explorer/Windows Explorer Type %AppData% into the address bar and hit enter Navigate to the required folder (Roaming or Local)
Another thing that I don’t know if he mentions in this video is that you’ll either have to start OBS as an adminstrator after this, or move the OBS-folder out of ’program files’ folder, to C: preferably. Otherwise it won’t save when you make any changes in OBS.
I have a problem with this method, everytime that OBS is opened I need to login into the chat, everytime. A friend help me with my configuration so sometimes he opens my obs from his computer (we work with a dedicated NAS and Syncthing) if that helps
So all this script seemed to do currently is copy my system32 and ruin my obs setup, didnt use anything but the default. Guess it did technicly backup something
You gave me a heart attack, _good thing you ran away_ until I found that it just defaulted to an empty profile and empty scene collection and the real stuff was still there
I have done this and obs asks me everytime i open it for the missing files....i point it to the new location and then the next time it asks again....the problem really gets bad when it forgets my masks everytime also......is there a way to make the change permanent?
Thanks for the vid man! Dumb question: would it work if I didn’t do portable mode and simply create two zip files? One for the folder in appdata and the other one for the folder in programs and then just put them each in the right place when I need to do the backup?
I have the "assets" folder set in the main directory and put all of my twitch stuff there but when I search obs to get them all back in all is good but when I restart obs it still says all the files are missing I'm so lost and want this to work! Anyone know what might be going on?
Hey ! I can't manage to link my twitch account to obs after switching to portable mode. if i try to connect an error is showing. It's : "Failed to get text from remote : The requested URL returned error : 404 Not Found"
@@toodaloo91 Ok i just found what happened. It's because of twitch, not obs. You'll have to use your stream key to stream. If you want to get your side tchat and stream info windows, you'll have to go to your twitch dashboard, make the widget of your choice pops out, take the url and adding it as "custom browser dock" in order to do that, go to "view/browser docks". add a name and paste the link
@@TheAlexbest2000 couldnt connect with streamkey aswell, i needed to reinstall everything :D rip. But i have Cloudbackup via Streamelements, so everything is ok...
Didnt work for me, all it did was erease everything I had in OBS, and even after I set everything again, after a few days it was gone again, now I lost a streaming day :'c
