#Beersmith 3 review install#
#Beersmith 3 review zip file#
#Beersmith 3 review update#

In addition to the bulk automatic backups, the Recipe->Recipe Archive keeps a record of all major recipe edits. If you need to restore the entire file, you can use the Recover from Backup Selected on the recover dialog. If you want to recover only a few items, you can then copy/paste the data from the open file tab back to your My Recipes or other view. Here there are 5 backups for each major data type, and you can select a file and click the button Open File in a New Tab to view the backup data for that date.

You can access these from the File->Recover from Auto Backup command. In addition to the above changes, BeerSmith 3 makes periodic full backups of your key data files and stores them by date. Automatic Backups of Files and Recipe Edits

#Beersmith 3 review zip file#

Next transfer that zip file to the new computer and use the File->Full Recovery from Zip on the new computer to restore all of your data and settings.

#Beersmith 3 review install#

Just install BeerSmith and activate it on the new computer, then use the File->Full Backup to Zip on the old computer to back it up. Using the new backup and recover from zip commands it is now much easier to move to a new computer when you upgrade. Since recovering from a zip file replaces all of your existing data, the program will first ask you if you want to backup your existing data to a zip file, which you can do, and then it will do the recovery. There is also a File->Full Recovery from Zip which takes the above zip file and recovers all of your data. This makes it very easy to make a periodic backup of your data for archival or make a copy of your data to move to another computer. The first one called Full Backup to Zip can be used to create a single zip archive file containing all of your current BeerSmith data and settings. New Backup FeaturesīeerSmith 3.1 adds two new menu items on the File menu. The new version stores data changes incrementally as they are made, which means you won’t lose data in a crash or unexpected computer shutdown. This caused issues if the program crashed or if the program was left running when the computer shut down, which can happen on many laptops. To correct this, V3.1 now recommends you store data in the AppData (Windows) or user Library (Mac) folder which is far less likely to be blocked or tampered with.īeerSmith also previously stored changes made in memory and then wrote the data when you closed the program. For example many antivirus programs block programs from reading/writing a lot of data to the Documents folder. As computers have evolved this created more and more problems with shared drives, antivirus programs, cleanup and backup programs. In earlier versions of BeerSmith the data was stored under the Documents/BeerSmith3 directory. I strongly recommend upgrading to 3.1 or higher by going to the main download page at if you are using an older version of BeerSmith.

#Beersmith 3 review update#

Starting with the BeerSmith 3.1 update we’ve added improved data storage security as well as backup options to the BeerSmith platform.