Hey everyone,
Couldn't think of a less confusing title. Essentially, I created my scenes in OBS without running it as an admin. I then found that I need to use admin privileges in order to stream some games (it allows the anti-cheat hook to function). When running as an admin, however, all of the scenes are missing. In fact, it's like a totally separate instance of OBS. It's reverted to the default skin, settings are set to default, etc. It's like a totally clean version of the software.
I tried exporting the scene filesfrom the non-admin version to the admin version, but the admin version doesn't seem to recognize them as valid .json files; when attempting to import, the browse window shows that nothing is in the folder where I'd saved them.
Non-Admin log file:
https://gist.github.com/2480618e82eb65e177064e4dcff82c0e
Admin log file:
https://gist.github.com/0f923879a29ecc861dbc9d974eb20b63
Thank you for your help!
EDIT:
Not sure if this helps at all, but when I tried exporting a file from the admin instance of OBS, not only could the non-admin instance not see it, but it doesn't show up when I'm looking at the folder in windows explorer. It's extremely strange.
EDIT: RESOLVED
Turns out the issue was that my system wasn't running with admin privileges, it was actually running as another account. As a result, all of the settings files were being saved to the other account's %appdata%.
Couldn't think of a less confusing title. Essentially, I created my scenes in OBS without running it as an admin. I then found that I need to use admin privileges in order to stream some games (it allows the anti-cheat hook to function). When running as an admin, however, all of the scenes are missing. In fact, it's like a totally separate instance of OBS. It's reverted to the default skin, settings are set to default, etc. It's like a totally clean version of the software.
I tried exporting the scene filesfrom the non-admin version to the admin version, but the admin version doesn't seem to recognize them as valid .json files; when attempting to import, the browse window shows that nothing is in the folder where I'd saved them.
Non-Admin log file:
https://gist.github.com/2480618e82eb65e177064e4dcff82c0e
Admin log file:
https://gist.github.com/0f923879a29ecc861dbc9d974eb20b63
Thank you for your help!
EDIT:
Not sure if this helps at all, but when I tried exporting a file from the admin instance of OBS, not only could the non-admin instance not see it, but it doesn't show up when I'm looking at the folder in windows explorer. It's extremely strange.
EDIT: RESOLVED
Turns out the issue was that my system wasn't running with admin privileges, it was actually running as another account. As a result, all of the settings files were being saved to the other account's %appdata%.
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