Profile (unipps) file location

[LEH]

I suffered a hard drive crash late last week. Got the computer back from being repaired and I am slowly getting it back to where I want it.

One question I have is this. Does anyone know where the PPS software stores the profiles on the local drive. I figured it would be an easy find with a new drive, just search for the 'unipps' file extension. There are no such files on the local (C drive. I have copies of my profiles on a network drive so there was no data loss. I'm just curious where the files Unication saves are stored.

Actually, I believe I may have found what I was looking for, it is in a '.db' file (on my computer at least) in C:\ProgramData\Unication\G_Series_PPS_V00-03-14-10\temp\Profile. There is an empty folder with a meaningless (to us, resembles a Windows registry name string) string name and the same string with a '.db' extension. I narrowed my search down to the only 'unication' folder on my local drive and found files that were changed at the same time I saved my profile.

I have a program that can open most any file. In the .db file I have been able to find the occasional ASCII keyboard text for system names, though after than we go back to undecipherable strings. Frequency and talk group numbers are not identifiable. When I opened the .unipps file it is compiled and nothing that is 'human decipherable' is there.

For Unication, would it be possible to provide us with a 'save in' location? I would rather save this information on a network drive that is redundant (a RAID). I am not asking to allow the actual PPS software to be run from a network drive, just the profile files to be saved at a user defined location.

 

[krokus]

I suffered a hard drive crash late last week. Got the computer back from being repaired and I am slowly getting it back to where I want it.

One question I have is this. Does anyone know where the PPS software stores the profiles on the local drive. I figured it would be an easy find with a new drive, just search for the 'unipps' file extension. There are no such files on the local (C drive. I have copies of my profiles on a network drive so there was no data loss. I'm just curious where the files Unication saves are stored.

Actually, I believe I may have found what I was looking for, it is in a '.db' file (on my computer at least) in C:\ProgramData\Unication\G_Series_PPS_V00-03-14-10\temp\Profile. There is an empty folder with a meaningless (to us, resembles a Windows registry name string) string name and the same string with a '.db' extension. I narrowed my search down to the only 'unication' folder on my local drive and found files that were changed at the same time I saved my profile.

I have a program that can open most any file. In the .db file I have been able to find the occasional ASCII keyboard text for system names, though after than we go back to undecipherable strings. Frequency and talk group numbers are not identifiable. When I opened the .unipps file it is compiled and nothing that is 'human decipherable' is there.

For Unication, would it be possible to provide us with a 'save in' location? I would rather save this information on a network drive that is redundant (a RAID). I am not asking to allow the actual PPS software to be run from a network drive, just the profile files to be saved at a user defined location.

Did you export the profile? That is what generates the pps file.

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[LEH]

Did you export the profile? That is what generates the pps file.

Yes, I had exported. But when I started, I wasn't sure what I would find. My first thought is the PPS (software) would generate and save the profile as the .unipps file extension. This seems to add an extra level of conversion somewhere along the way.

I am not going to even attempt to figure out the save and import process. This was just more an FYI for anyone trying to find a unipps file.

Though I would like to be able to save my profile files externally.

 

[N6ML]

PPS uses SQLite databases under the covers. .unipps files are only generated when you export your profiles.

 

[N6ML]

As for "'save in' location", you should be prompted for that when you export a profile ("Export to" - it appears it defaults to "Documents").

 

[radio3353]

I agree with N6ML. When you exported your program didn't you specify the save location? It really is that simple. Export saves the file as .unipps.

 

[LEH]

I apologize, my request really wasn't that clear. When I build a profile in the PPS and then exit the software. The profile files are automatically saved to my local drive (C:\ProgramData\Unication\current-pps-version-number\).

I would like to be able to save those files to a network drive on closing. One of my NAS's has a 'cloud' feature so I can access files from most anywhere. Saving the original files vs exporting the unipps would allow me to make changes while on the road more readily and not have to try to recall which version is which. Configuration management can be a bear.