Bug Report OBS Studio Not Saving Settings

[popesta]

2nd time I'm reporting this and the last time I didn't have any responses. But OBS is not saving settings. When I first installed the program it saved all of my settings without a problem, but it seems to not be capable of saving hotkeys and network configurations since that first time.

I've tried rebooting, saving 1 setting at a time, running as administrator, checking if the settings and profiel update (which they do), and nothing seems to get this to work.

I uploaded the logs:
https://gist.github.com/a445a2a66b11684b1ee700bf8a5f1315

 

[Suslik V]

Because for me, for example, it is not clear how to reproduce this issue you have. Please, write step-by-step what you are pressing and when it not working.

 

[popesta]

Ok so it initially saved like 50% of my hotkeys. So for example let's say that:

Alt+1 - Hide/show Text #1
Alt+2 - Hide/show Text #2
Alt+3 - Hide/show Text #3

That works fine, now I constantly have to re-do part #2 of my hotkeys which is

Alt+1 - Hide/show image #1A
Alt+2 - Hide/show image #2A
Alt+3 - Hide/show image #3A

Now in this second part I will do it by going to:

1. Settings
2. Hotkeys
3. Show #1A - I'll press Alt+1
4. Hide #1A - I'll press Alt+1
5. repeat for 2A and 3A
6. repeat for all scenes
7. Clicked OK
8. Settings work without a problem during the stream
9. Exit OBS Studios
10. Reopen
11. Settings are not saved for Images #1A-3A

And what's even weirder is that until just recently it wasn't saving any new settings I made in any of the other options, but suddenly starting the other day it decided to save them. I checked out the profile and scene files and those are updating everytime I use OBS Studios, so it's not like the files are not being updated. All of this just makes 0 sense and this is coming from an IT dude.

 

[Suslik V]

Win7x32 - cannot reproduce (obs as admin). Maybe you miss some steps? Do you add new image sources and assign hotkeys to them or you simply edit hotkeys? Single Profile and Scene Collection?

At least, you can try OBS Studio portable mode in different folder: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-and-obs-studio-portable-mode-on-windows.359/ and new Profile and new Scene Collection.

 

[popesta]

Ok I'm like 99% positive that this is a bug. I've done the following:

1. Copied the settings folder in Appdata\Roaming, Started an entirely new session to create a new folder and the issues are still present. So from that I drew the conclusion that the error is tied to the scenes themselves
2. I created an entirely new Scene Collection that was blank. I recreated the exact same thing, exited out of OBS, and reopened it. All hotkey settings were saved without a problem
3. To further prove that this is a bug, I went to the "broken scene", and duplicated the "broken scene". The hotkeys for this duplicated scene were 100% blank, so I created the hotkeys again, and even set it up EXACTLY THE SAME WAY except for one hotkey. I setup Alt+A to switch to this scene. The original "broken scene" used Alt+F to switch to its scene. I closed OBS and reopened it. OBS changed all of my settings in the "duplicated scene" to the same settings as the "broken scene" EXCEPT for the switch scene hotkey.

So I'm baffled at this point, this is definitely a bug. I had no issues like this at all when using regular OBS. I'll give the portable mode a shot though.

 

[popesta]

OHHHHHHH FIGURED IT OUT!

Ok now I think I exactly why this worked perfectly fine in OBS and not OBS Studios. So in OBS you was able to have global sources that had different names. These renamed global sources seemed to be capable of having different attributes to other similar global sources with a different name. That doesn't seem to be the case with OBS Studios, so what I think is happening is that the settings are saving the global source's hotkey settings as the same thing across all global sources. So in my setup I'm using the same image on repeat and due to OBS Studios not allowing me to rename each one individually, they were all named the exact same thing. I'm guessing along with copying the same name, the global sources were also copying the same hotkey configurations (even though they had their own separate section in the Hotkeys menu...which I still find odd).

So the OBS devs just need to allow the global sources in OBS Studios to be capable of being separate sources once renamed and altered.

 

[popesta]

So my fix is that I have to not be lazy and create a new image for each time I want to use an image in the scene rather than using the global source. Once I make each one individually and have it at separate names, they shouldn't copy the other hotkeys as well.

 

[Suslik V]

Add source as 'Add existing' and you can specify different hotkeys to this cloned sources, and it works until OBS Studio restart. Confirm. Maybe bug in the software.

Edit: via Add Existing - both "cloned" and "original" sources should be in the same scene to reproduce the issue (v20.0.1).

 

[Shoe_]

Can confirm, issue persists in most current version of OBS. 11/10/21.