Retrieving Sessions-queries

[Thomas Svensen]

I have a problem caused by re-installing PL/SQL Developer:

My old disk threatened to break down on me, so I did a clean re-install on a new disk. The biggest annoyance with this, is loosing all my customizations, eg. my customized queries for sessions (Tools > Sessions...)

I can still read my old disk, just not boot from it. Is there any way I can "extract" my queries from the old PL/SQL Dev installation? I tried looking at lost of files, but found nothing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

- Thomas

 

[Marco Kalter]

These preferences are all stored in the user registry under:

hkey_current_user\software\allround automations\pl/sql developer

If you can get access to this user registry again, you can export and import this section.

 

[Christo Kutrovsky]

depending on the customisations, some of them you will not be able to export/import with the normal "regedit" due to 2 reasons:
1. you can't boot your drive to run regedit
2. even if you did, regedit will messup some exports, it does not handle "newline" (i think .. or some other symbol) properly...

You will need to use "regedt32" from windows2000. If you have XP, you will have to get regedt32 from 2000. With it, you can "mount" your registry files from your old windows, into some subkey onto your new windows, and from there you can use "save key" to save the pl/sql config, and "restore key" to restore into the new location.

 

[Thomas Svensen]

Thank you very much for the tips!
I will get at it right away

- Thomas