VaM 1.x Which folders to backup for a clean install? To keep all Saves/Presets/AddonPackages/Scenes/Favorites

Ray Gillette · 2025-10-30T11:22:21-0400

Theres a guide for resync: https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/backing-up-vam-to-a-local-disk-with-rsync.55217/

However I want to perform a clean install to get rid of any unknown patches and dll's and ect ect. BUT which folders do I need to save before I do a clean install (of VAM and repatch it up to current); I am assuming I just need these:

AddonPackages
AddonPackagesBuilder
AddonPackagesFilePrefs
AddonPackagesUserPrefs
Custom
Saves

Am I missing anything critical?

hazmhox · 2025-10-30T11:32:23-0400

AddonPackagesBuilder is useless, you can throw it out.
But beyond that, you're good. Unless you got some creator who decided to put some stuffs outside of custom

Note: If you keep everything in these folder. It's not gonna be that much "cleaned". There's pretty much barely any data outside of these folders.

Okachu · 2025-10-30T11:57:02-0400

If you have the space somewhere. Keep the whole vam folder somehwere.

Make a new install with some basic dependencies and copy over what you need else later.

Then nothing get lost.

VaM 1.x Which folders to backup for a clean install? To keep all Saves/Presets/AddonPackages/Scenes/Favorites

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