Image Restore of C: Drive - What will Insync do?

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For various reasons I’d like to restore an image of my Windoze C: drive from about two weeks ago. I have three Google accounts synced and many gig of data - although the data itself is all on other partitions and won’t change.

Will Insync cope with this without me doing anything special, or is there some sort of “full re-scan” type function I could/should invoke manually?
Thanks - Clicker

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@Clicker_Ticker: Insync would not be able to cope up with it if the restoration process also restores the User’s app data.

Assuming that the data folders are on a different drives. Please follow the following steps in order to correctly resume syncing:

  1. Back up the folder: “%appdata%\Insync\dbs”
  2. After restoring C:, re-install Insync (in case it has been reverted to an older version because of the restore)
  3. Quit Insync
  4. Replace the %appdata%\Insync\dbs folder with that of the backed up folder (in step 1)
  5. Start Insync

Thanks

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Dipesh
Thanks!
I did the restore. Paused and exited Insync straigh after booting - then replaced the \dbs folder with the latest one. I realise it would have been better to do that before booting the restored system, but it would have been lots of extra work to extract it in that environment.

Seems to be working as expected. Fingers crossed.
Thanks for your help - much appreciated.
Clicker

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@Clicker_Ticker: Yes, if possible, in such a scenario, one must replace the dbs folder before letting Insync start at the system boot or quit it ASAP after it auto-starts.

Glad that you got it working as expected :smile: