Before pruning things, you might wish to make a backup copy of mirc.ini to have a list of these no-longer-favorites. The default mirc.ini has a long list of favorites, of which most people don't plan to ever visit many of them, so you can trim them off the list. I don't know whether the problem is related to the size of mirc.ini or not, but several years ago when people in #channel were having this problem, after I suggested they trim the size of their mirc.ini smaller than 8kb, it anecdotally seemed to lessen the frequency of mirc.ini getting reset. Do a little housecleaning on your own mirc.ini. After all, with the new situation, in theory mirc.ini should never be lost.

For example, if mirc.ini cannot be loaded but the default directory contains other mirc-generated files that are never installed by default (is remote.ini among those?), print some information about why mirc.ini couldn't be loaded (missing/empty/corrupted) or so. With the newer mIRC versions, so far I've seen two people report loss of mirc.ini after a power failure, with (as far as I can tell) very regular system and mIRC setups and thus no other probable explanation.Īs such, it might still be worth trying slightly heavier ways to preserve mirc.ini, or at the very least printing some information that may help identify the root cause.

However, it also appears that the issue is not entirely resolved yet. Of course this is not exactly a reliable statistic, but it's something. As in, it appears that there are fewer people complaining about losing mirc.ini than before. My personal impression from #mirc channels is this change seems to have had a positive effect.

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