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I just wanted to say that @Christopher (Drashna)has been very helpful each time I've created a topic. I have found him and the others I've worked with to be thoughtful and professional in their responses. Thanks for all the work you all do. Now we can all stop seeing that other thread previewed every time we look at the forum home.

hello. in Scanner go to settings with the wrench icon > advanced settings and troubleshooting and on the first tab is where to bu/restore its settings. you may have to enable the avanced settings from the 'general' tab under 'Scanner settings...' first. it will create a zip file containing many json files and want to put it in 'documents' by default so just back it up elsewhere. after renaming drives in Scanner i stop the StableBit Scanner service, twiddle my thumbs for a sec or three, restart the service and GUI and and the custom names and locations are all saved (for me anyway). only then do i actually create the Scanner backup zip file. i haven't had to actually restore Scanner using this zip file yet but it seems like it will work (knock on wood). and i don't see how recent scan history would be saved using this method. saved from when the zip file was created maybe but anything truly recent is likely gone. it's probably a good idea to create a spreadsheet or text file etc. with your custom info ALONG WITH the serial number for each of your drives so if it happens again you can easily copy/paste directly into Scanner. i set up my C:\_Mount folder with SNs as well so i always know which drive is which should i need to access them directly. i have 2 UPSs as well. 1 for the computer, network equipment, and the RAID enclosure where qBittorent lives. the other runs my remaining USB enclosures where my BU drives and Drivepool live. even that is not fool-proof; if no one's home when the power dies, the one with all the enclosures will just run till the battery dies, as it's not controlled by any software like the one with the computer and modem etc, which is set to shut down Windows automatically/gracefully after 3 minutes. at least it will be disconnected from Windows before the battery dies and the settings will have a greater chance of being saved. if you have a UPS and it failed during your recent storm, all i can say is WOW bad luck. one of these or something similar is great for power outages: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PUQILCS/?coliid=I1XKMGSRN3M77P&colid=2TBI57ZR3HAW7&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it saved my stuff once already. keep it plugged in an outlet near where you sleep and it will wake you up. hope this helps and perhaps others may benefit from some of this info as well. cheers

Thanks @VapechiK for the info. I actually was able to recover the information from records I have. However, that doesn't recover the most recent scan information which also reset. Something has happened that is preventing that information from persisting for some reason. I'd like to get to the bottom of that. As to UPS, I am on all (relatively affordable) consumer hardware so I'm not really worried about equipment failures due to power outage. I've got everything plugged into surge strips and worst case if a component fails I'll just replace it. Too many stories over the years of home UPSes catching fire. To me they're an unacceptable home fire risk. However, that power outage alarm you shared is pretty neat. Never seen one of those. We definitely use large enterprise grade UPS and generators in our datacenters at work though