Was config for versions < 8.0.0 stored anywhere other than $HOME/.config ?

[bertiebaggio]

I have recently upgraded to 8.0.0-1 from 7.2.5-2 and lost all effects that had been set up. My package manager noted this:

easyeffects 8.0.0 will relocate existing presets, impulse response, rnnoise and autoload profile files
in ~/.config/easyeffects to ~/.local/share/easyeffects and move remaining directories to the users
Refer to 'https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#800' for additional information.

However I have lost effects that were previously set before upgrade.

Strangely, checking my backups it seems that ~/.config/easyeffects was created last year, but unpopulated:

drwxr-xr-x bertieb bertieb        0 Wed, 2024-09-18 11:18:28 bertieb/.config/easyeffects
drwxr-xr-x bertieb bertieb        0 Wed, 2024-09-18 11:18:28 bertieb/.config/easyeffects/input
drwxr-xr-x bertieb bertieb        0 Wed, 2024-09-18 11:18:28 bertieb/.config/easyeffects/output
drwxr-xr-x bertieb bertieb        0 Wed, 2024-09-18 11:18:28 bertieb/.config/easyeffects/irs
drwxr-xr-x bertieb bertieb        0 Wed, 2024-09-18 11:18:28 bertieb/.config/easyeffects/rnnoise
drwxr-xr-x bertieb bertieb        0 Wed, 2024-09-18 11:18:28 bertieb/.config/easyeffects/autoload
drwxr-xr-x bertieb bertieb        0 Wed, 2024-09-18 11:18:28 bertieb/.config/easyeffects/autoload/input
drwxr-xr-x bertieb bertieb        0 Wed, 2024-09-18 11:18:28 bertieb/.config/easyeffects/autoload/output

I would likely have exported these effects, but I don't seem to have any likely-looking json files- was there a default filename for the exporter previously?

I found a QA about the presets dir and another about the older pulseeffects dir which I still have, but contains nothing but a json which I might be able to use with @Lukas-Alexander's converter.

I've never used a flatpak or anything similar- so why do I have empty config directories?

[wwmm]

However I have lost effects that were previously set before upgrade.

As gtk and Qt handle settings in completely different ways avoiding the reset is very complicated. And the huge amount of settings we have to deal with did not help to put a migration in place.

I've never used a flatpak or anything similar- so why do I have empty config directories?

Strange. As we were not following the xdg directory standard in EasyEffects 8 I decided it would be time to do that. It should have copied your preset files to .local/share/easyeffects/ and moved the originals to your desktop trash just in case a restoration is needed. It does not try to permanently remove the files.

For reasons that are still unknown this process is not working for flatpak users the same way it worked for the people that tested it before the release. But as you do not use flatpak I am not sure about what is going on here.

[bertiebaggio]

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can only being to imagine the complexity involved given the plethora of configurations! I don't mind there being a migration; and indeed easyeffects did try to migrate:

easyeffects: presets_directory_manager.cpp:140  Old /home/bertieb/.config/easyeffects/output directory 
    detected. Migrating its files to /home/bertieb/.local/share/easyeffects/output
easyeffects: presets_directory_manager.cpp:146  Moved /home/bertieb/.local/share/easyeffects/output 
    to the trash folder

(6 such pairs of entries)

Now that you mention trash the second line stands out more; perhaps the settings for Arch's 7.2.5-2 package were stored there? I'd need to check their code to see what changes they made when packaging, if any†.

However, I have no directory under $HOME/.local/share/easyeffects/ in my backups. I don't run a DE, just a WM (i3); I do seem to have a $HOME/Desktop/, but it is also empty- do you happen to know where my trash might be? 😅

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Edit: † the commit updating the package to 8.0.0 looks to be standard packaging-related changes, and I don't see anything in the repo that would change the target location to differ from upstream. However, I have a passing familiarity so I may have missed something.

[bertiebaggio]

I do have a $HOME/.config/easyeffects/db/ now with some INI-style rc files, which isn't present in my backups until today it seems. I also see some entries under $HOME/.cache.

[bertiebaggio]

After having a quick look at the 7.x branch, it now occurs to me the 'running' settings (as opposed to exported presets) were probably stored somewhere GTKish. I'm going to sleep on whether to: try to dig those out; or try to track down the preset export I surely must have done (being someone who wouldn't want to lose work!) when I migrated from legacy pulseeffects about a year ago...

[wwmm]

The gtk code stored settings using gsettings. It has its own binary file that is stored somewhere I never remember. U usally you can find its settings using the program dconf-editor.

I do have a $HOME/.config/easyeffects/db/ now with some INI-style rc files, which isn't present in my backups until today it seems.

This is where our database lives now.

do you happen to know where my trash might be?

😄 Systems that follow the xdg desktop standard should have it at ~/.local/share/Trash/

[bertiebaggio]

Perfect, thanks for clarifying.

you can find its settings using the program dconf-editor.

Yup, for /com/github/wwmm/easyeffects/:

I can replicate what I have in there :) Though mapping the equalizer settings might need a few minutes to think about 😅

Cheers for taking the time to respond, and for easyeffects in general 😁