Miech

Good question. I was asking myself the same. Anyone?

I love Cura, for me it's the only (still free) software that I can use to the fullest to make my parts. But..... I'm having trouble with each Cura update.... There seems to be no intuitive or automatic way to migrate the printer settings from the previous release to the latest release of Cura. Before I installed Cura 4.6.1, I was using 4.5. Used the Manage Backups to create a backup of the latest settings (what's inside those backups anyway?). Then installed Cura 4.6.1. After installation and startup I was asked to choose a printer, just choose the custom FFF printer. Then went to Manage Backups and selected the backup that I created in Cura 4.5. A messagebox appears and tells it has to close Cura before the backups can be restored. Cura closes and after that, there's no way you can tell if the process has finished succesfully; you have to start Cura 4.6.1 only to discover something has gone terribly wrong (see picture). It seems I have to start all over again with defining a new printer and its settings, start- and end-gcodes, importing materials, extruders, importing other stuff etc. For the next release of Cura it would be very nice to have an automatic, stable procedure that migrates all printer-definitions, extruder definitions, material definitions, filament definitions, slicing parameters, etc from the previous version of Cura to the latest. It would also be a great addition to be able to select only parts (only materials, of extruders) from the backup you created earlier. Now there's no way to see what's inside the backup-zips; logging in into the Ultimaker Cloud doesn't show me anything. Somebody can help me with restoring the settings?

Well to my surprise, this works! Thanks ahoeben!

Having the same problem, but.... I can reproduce the problem, at least, on my PC. I have a dual monitor setup at home. When having both monitors active, Cura starts, splash-screen shows progress and after telling me "Loading UI" the splash screen disappears, and a gray window appears and remains. After that nothing happens, I guess you all know this issue. But when closing/killing Cura through Task Manager and disabling the secondary monitor by pressing Windows-key+P and selecting one monitor, starting of Cura completes successfully. After that I can expand my monitor again. But when I close Cura and restart Cura with both monitors active, the problem reoccurs. When Cura is running with both monitors active the same problem occurs when opening the Marketplace from within Cura; the Marketplace window is there, but there's nothing in it, it remains a gray screen and Cura hangs. Have to kill it through Task Manager. At that time my graphics-drivers were outdated, so I thought updating them could resolve the problem, but it didn't. In case someone is interested here's my system configuration: Windows 10 Pro (10.0.18363) Intel Core i7-7700 @ 3.6GHz Asus Maximus VIII Ranger MoBo 16GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics adapter (driver version 445.75)