Powertoys: Fancy Zones loses Custom layout

[alphakry]

Every couple days, I find fancy zones not running correctly where I am unable to snap to zones that I previously could. When I go into the Fancy zones settings, I notice my custom layout is no longer available. I have re-setup my own custom layout a few times now and at some random interval days later, it just is no longer applicable. What gives?

[enricogior]

Hi @alphakry
what you report is unusual. The zone settings are persisted to this file

"C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\FancyZones\zones-settings.json"

The only way to make the custom zoneset to disappear is to delete that file.
I suggest you to create your custom zoneset and then save a copy of the zones-settings.json.
If the problem happens again, please post the save zones-settings.json file along with the one currently in use, so we can try to determine what happened.
Thank you.

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[dankots]

Is power toys closing the file after making any changes? I find that if windows crashes, I have a new empty zones-settings.json when i start up again.

[enricogior]

@dankots
can you open a new issue specific for that scenario? Thank you.

[ashsabet]

This happens to me too.

[sdippl]

This happens to me, too. After a crash the custom Fancy Zones are gone

[DARKFiB3R]

Me too. Twice in the last two days. :(

Once after a power cut, which resulted in me having to reconfigure my bios (Asus Maximums Ranger VII)

And also after blue screening during a graphics driver update. (MSI GTX 970)

Windows 10 Enterprise, 20H2, 19042.630

A backup and restore feature would be nice.

Or maybe having this layout as one of the defaults..

https://i.imgur.com/1nlus8F.png

Thanks for the awesome app.