Originally Posted By: Mac

Tom, have you tried this?

Before starting up BB, go to the bb folder and locate the following files and drag them OUT of the folder:

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93. How can I return Band-in-a-Box to the factory settings?

Band-in-a-Box 2010 or higher uses the files listed below for configuration. If you want to restore Band-in-a-Box to the factory settings, you can delete or rename these files. The next time you launch Band-in-a-Box, new configuration files will be created. This can help solve or troubleshoot odd and unexplainable problems you are having with the program. The files are found in the root Band-in-a-Box folder, usually C:\bb, and can easily be found by sorting the files in the bb folder by 'date modified'.

Important: You must have Band-in-a-Box closed when you do this, or else it won't work.

We recommend renaming the files (rather than deleting them) or saving a copy of them somewhere else on your hard drive so that you have a backup of your old configuration. For example, you could rename intrface.bbw to intrface.old. Later, if you find that you need to restore your previous settings, you can delete the new intrface.bbw file that Band-in-a-Box will have created, and rename intrface.old to intrface.bbw. Note that Band-in-a-Box 2009 and higher have an easier method of saving your settings, which wouldn't require you to save a copy of your intrface file. You can simply go to the Opt. menu and select Save Preferences As. Later, you can reload those preferences by selecting Opt. | Open Preferences.

An alternative way of restoring all factory defaults, is to simply reinstall Band-in-a-Box to a new folder. One way of doing this is to rename your current Band-in-a-Box folder to '\bb_old', then reinstall the program to the default '\bb' folder. Note that reinstalling Band-in-a-Box to the SAME folder will not return the program to factory settings, because Band-in-a-Box doesn't change the configuration files when you reinstall it.

intrface.bbw. This file contains most of the global Band-in-a-Box settings in the Opt. | Preferences dialogs, and a list of the most recently accessed song and style files.

MySetup.DK. This file contains the settings in the following dialogs.:
Opt.| Preferences | Channels (default MIDI channels, patches, volumes, reverb, chorus, bank)
Opt. | Preferences | Patch Map
Opt. | Preferences | Drum Kit
Opt. | Utilities | Make an Advanced Patch Map
Opt. | Preferences | Fav. Patch

The two files above contain most of your program settings; it is USUALLY only necessary to delete those two files to solve most problem.


--Mac


Mac...This quote from from above caught my eye and I tried it with SUCCESS:
...."Note that Band-in-a-Box 2009 and higher have an easier method of saving your settings, which wouldn't require you to save a copy of your intrface file. You can simply go to the Opt. menu and select Save Preferences As. Later, you can reload those preferences by selecting Opt. | Open Preferences."

Since I have BIAB 2011, I tried it. When I opened Ops,, etc., it had 3 saved settings. I saved my current setting as #4 and opened #1. Then closed and re-opened the program and ... wala... it now seems to work. So I'll continue to play with it to see what happens. I have no idea what drive I'm using right now or if I want to use the ASIO (Steinberg) driver I have installed... later for that I guess... Thanks to all for putting up with me... maybe I'm on my way to more BIAB enjoyment! Tom