Odd Settings Causes loss of config

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I am having an issue that is not a huge problem since there is a recovery, but wanted to know if others have observed it.

My storage location is non-standard. It is on another drive than where my default location would have it be put at. This has never been a problem for me.

I just made a change to how I have folders and decided to use All Inboxes from the favorites link, and I turned off the display of Inboxes by default in the settings. When I clicked Save for the settings, it warned me that the all inboxes was not displayed, but it did not give any further information on why that might be a problem.

When I returned and ran eM Client the next time, I was prompted with the initial setup wizard. The storage location was defaulted, and with nothing there it assumed I had just installed it. I went to the settings, storage, changed the location back to where it should be, exited, re-ran and boom - back in business.

Today I made another change in the settings because I realized I inadvertently turned off the display of local folders. After turning it back on, I got the warning again. Ignored it again, but next time I started, same result - new install setup wizard. Same fix worked.

I have version 10.4.5674 (fcbf2a4). Again, not a big deal since I know the workaround, but anybody else seen it lose the storage location on a setting change?

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Can you post a screenshot of the warning?

In general, this sounds a bit similar to the warning connected to your Startup folder settings.
For example, if you set the ‘All inboxes’ folder as your startup folder (which folder/section is open when you start the app) and then remove that folder from view, that would cause a conflict.

But that should not cause your storage location to reset, of course. So it could be such an unexpected issue that we have no error message for and the program for some reason falls back on this one…

Do you have more than one profile perhaps?
You can check if the database location is still set correctly via Registry editor (run REGEDIT) in Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\eM Client
See if the DBlocation path is set correctly for your main profile and change it if not.