I've been using OBS Portable to stream my desktop to YouTube for the past several months. I have it set to open at startup, and when it does, I start my stream. All my configurations (monitor selection and sizing, Google account link, etc) are remembered from session to session.
This past weekend, I left my computer running on a long project, during which I was not streaming and OBS was not open. Today, I restarted my computer, and as soon as OBS opened, it prompted me with the Auto-Configuration Wizard, which I had not seen since my first use of the software. It appears that all of my configurations had been lost. I went through the wizard and linked my Google account, but before continuing, I restarted the software just to see if it had been saved. At startup, I was greeted by the Auto-Configuration Wizard yet again.
I see that no update for the software has shipped since last month, so any idea what might have changed on my computer that caused this sudden inability for my configurations to not be saved across session.
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If you set it to start at Windows startup within the app itself, it will not be running in portable mode. It will be running in local mode. In this case, the settings are not something under our control at all.
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