Lots of Settings and Profiles went away

[mdcyntst 0]

restarted ultimaker cura 5.5 on linux and got corrupt  messages.

 

I've got the printer configs back, but apparently I'm missing a bunch of profiles.

 

I'm relatively new to 3d printing.  I've been making good progress building things in freecad and printing.

However I don't have some settings I used a lot.

 

Specifically I had a bunch of settings for normal, draft, fast, extra fast, fine etc.  Since the config configuration, they have disappeared.

 

Interestingly I never created them, they came default.  Not sure how I enabled them, but I can't find them anymore.

 

Any guidance is appreciated.

 

 

[mdcyntst 0]

hmmm.  Just found it.  I had to "activate" one of my printers and the profiles came back. 

[Slashee_the_Cow 267]

2 hours ago, mdcyntst said:

hmmm.  Just found it.  I had to "activate" one of my printers and the profiles came back. 

Quality profiles belong to a printer, you can use them on other printers (if they're compatible) but you need to have loaded a printer which can access those profiles in order for them to show up.

[mdcyntst 0]

Here's another interesting follow up post config corruption.

 

Now whenever I load an STL file.  They are shadowy ghostly outlines until I slice them (barely visible and difficult to determine z-axis setting).  They used to load as a solid yellow figures.

[Slashee_the_Cow 267]

Check what material and nozzle size you have set in the prepare tab. If you don't have a nozzle size set it won't be loading any materials (I think, the "standard" nozzle size is 0.4mm), and the default material is Generic PLA which shows up as yellow.