#BEERSMITH 3 FAILED TO MODIFY FILE TIMES HOW TO#

Instead, it is best to periocally back up your local BeerSmith3 directory to your backup or network drive for archive purposes. The result in this case will most likely be data loss. While a number of users have tried this to share data between machines, there is nothing in BeerSmith that will prevent one copy from overwriting another on the shared drive if you run two copies on two computer. I do not recommend moving/storing your BeerSmith 3 data on an external or network drive or service like Google Drive or Dropbox for daily use. You can do the same for other data like the Equipment.bsmx or Hops.bsmx files.

For example your recipes are stored in a file called Recipe.bsmx which you can easily open using the File->Open command within BeerSmith, and then copy/paste data back to My Recipes to restore recipes. If you have a complete copy of your BeerSmith3 data directory it is very easy to copy the entire directory to a new computer or alternately open the BSMX data files within BeerSmith to recover selective data. An even better idea is to use backup software that either backs your data up offsite or to a network archive. This is why I strongly recommend periodically making a backup of your Documents/BeerSmith3 folder. Since the bulk of your brewing data is locally stored, it could be lost if you have a hard drive crash, stolen computer, hardware failure, fire, or other disaster. The only exception to this is recipes in your cloud folder which are stored on the recipe server at All of the recipe data in My Recipes as well as any changes you’ve made to ingredients or profiles as well as your program settings are stored in this folder. Data Storage and Backup in BeerSmith 3īeerSmith stores most of its data locally on your hard drive in the Documents/BeerSmith3 folder (or ~/.beersmith3 on Linux).

#BEERSMITH 3 FAILED TO MODIFY FILE TIMES HOW TO#

I’ll show you how to recover a large amount of data or even just an older recipe if needed. Follow week I cover how to back up your data in BeerSmith 3 as well as automatic data storage and archive options.

Beersmith 3 failed to modify file times