All of my filters are gone

I seriously doubt that the Windows "Repair Installation" caused the problem. The filter storage location is a generic one, based on the user profile and closely matches the place where Windows stores your certificate keys, Adobe Photoshop and other Adobe software stores it's settings and caches, JASC/Corel PSP store their data, Mozilla Firefox stores the cache, bookmarks and preferences, etc.

I would strongly suggest you to backup all of your profile data (%HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%) instead of backing up only "My Documents". Actually, by backing up only "My Documents", you will lose most of your application settings, your Outlook folders and settings, Start Menu items, Favorites (both IE and Firefox) and whole lot more.

The point: I see no problem with storing filters in %APPDATA% as this is the Microsoft recommended location for storing such data. There _may_ be a problem with Windows Setup and/or Windows Restore facilities not properly maintaining the contents of this folder, but I strongly disagree that FF should use some other user-managed location like "My Documents" since this is, well, user-managed, because of a problem in Windows "Repair Installation" procedure. Know your data, make and tets your backups wisely and thoroughly.

P.S. I understand that losing your data is a bad thing, but blaming FF for not covering your specific case won't help. Future versions of FF may include an option to relocate the data storage, but for entirely different reasons (ease of storage organization).

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onyXMaster wrote: closely matches the place where Windows stores your certificate keys, Adobe Photoshop and other Adobe software stores it's settings and caches, JASC/Corel PSP store their data, Mozilla Firefox stores the cache, bookmarks and preferences, etc.

That may be the problem. Since I don't consider my filters to be "settings". Which is perhaps why they were deleted. Windows repairs kills all or most of your apps, and settings can be replaced, but personal data files are NOT settings or cache files! I would expect Photoshop NOT to save anything I create without possibility of intervention in an application data folder. If it did, I'd consider something to be amiss with photoshop.

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Bongo51 wrote: My vote is for an itunes style library 'setting' for your filter library. I know personally that I would have utilized it immediately.

So would I. Until I read here on the forums that you can just right-click to find the location of a filter, I didn't know where they were stored. I'm not a particularly big fan of applications storing things in a single immutable location. Mostly because I often end up with far too little space on my XP partition, and that's exactly why I chose a different partition for the install.

Hi Folks, as OnyX said "the option to relocate the data folder is going to be included in a future (not next) release". So, for a while I'd suggest to use Allway Sync 4.6.5 that is Free for personal use. Allway Sync is free file and folder synchronization software for Windows. So you can set in several ways to sync the two folders in background and so on.

Cheers,
Lucato.