How to Backup and Restore Snip & Sketch app Settings in Windows 10
The Snip & Sketch app included in Windows 10 allows you to quickly annotate screenshots, photos and other images with your pen, touch, or mouse and save, paste or share with other apps.
If you use the Snip & Sketch app, you can manually backup your settings to manually restore as needed to any account on any Windows 10 PC.
This tutorial will show you how to manually backup and restore your settings for the Snip & Sketch app in Windows 10.
Contents
- Option One: To Backup Settings from Snip & Sketch app
- Option Two: To Restore Settings to Snip & Sketch app
EXAMPLE: Snip & Sketch app settings
OPTION ONETo Backup Settings from Snip & Sketch app
1 Close the Snip & Sketch app if open.
2 Open File Explorer (Win+E), copy and paste the folder location below into the address bar of File Explorer, and press Enter.
(current account)
%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_8wekyb3d8bbwe
3 Copy the Settings folder to your desktop. (see screenshot below)
4 Move the Settings folder on your desktop to where want to keep it saved at as your backup. It is safe to rename this folder to anything you like if wanted.
5 You can now close File Explorer if you like.
OPTION TWOTo Restore Settings to Snip & Sketch app
1 Close the Snip & Sketch app if open.
2 Open File Explorer (Win+E), copy and paste the folder location below into the address bar of File Explorer, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
(current account)
%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_8wekyb3d8bbw\Settings
3] In a separate File Explorer window, open the backed up Settings folder from Option One, select the contents in this folder, right click or press and hold on the selected items, and click/tap on Copy. (see screenshot below)
4 Paste the selected files from the backup in step 3 into the Settings folder from step 2.
5 When prompted, click/tap on Replace the files in the destination. (see screenshot below)
6 You can now close the File Explorer windows if you like.
That's it,
Shawn
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Backup and Restore Snip & Sketch app Settings in Windows 10
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New #1
Hi Shawn, thanks for another great tutorial that saved me lots of work.
I had captured a dozen screenshots containing urls with Snip & Sketch while watching a long video yesterday (I watched it for over an hour) and one click on the taskbar icons and they were all lost. I have no idea how a dozen screenshots just vaporized.
I used your tutorial to identify the following cache that saved me.
Code:%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState
In this folder I found all of my screenshots from yesterday and copied them. I'll update my post after a restart, however; I'd expect that folder will be flushed.
You've just made my day much better. Thanks,
Michael
This info might help others who experience this anomaly.
Update after a restart;
More bizarre behavior, all the files are still available after a restart. I can only see yesterday's captures, obviously it gets reset somehow.
Last edited by W10 Tweaker; 22 Oct 2021 at 13:33.
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New #2
Great news. I'm glad it could help.Hi Shawn, thanks for another great tutorial that saved me lots of work.
I had captured a dozen screenshots containing urls with Snip & Sketch while watching a long video yesterday (I watched it for over an hour) and one click on the taskbar icons and they were all lost. I have no idea how a dozen screenshots just vaporized.
I used your tutorial to identify the following cache that saved me.
Code:%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState
In this folder I found all of my screenshots from yesterday and copied them. I'll update my post after a restart, however; I'd expect that folder will be flushed.
You've just made my day much better. Thanks,
Michael
This info might help others who experience this anomaly.
Backup and Restore Snip & Sketch app Settings in Windows 10
How to Backup and Restore Snip & Sketch app Settings in Windows 10Published by Shawn BrinkCategory: Backup & Restore
11 Aug 2020
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