# Move dead screenly settings

**URL:** <https://forums.screenly.io/t/move-dead-screenly-settings/237>\
**Category:** Anthias\
**Created:** [January 23, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/move-dead-screenly-settings/237 "2020-01-23T17:22:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![godfather55v](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.screenly.io/godfather55v/32/80_2.png) [@godfather55v](https://forums.screenly.io/u/godfather55v)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/move-dead-screenly-settings/237/1 "2020-01-23T17:22:43Z")

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i have a screenly that won’t boot, the file system still seems intact. How can i pull my screenly ose settings from it and save them on a new build?

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**Author:** ![vpetersson](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.screenly.io/vpetersson/32/8_2.png) [@vpetersson](https://forums.screenly.io/u/vpetersson)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/move-dead-screenly-settings/237/2 "2020-01-27T17:30:25Z")

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In an ideal world, you’d recover it from a backup (using the native backup/recover feature). Short of that, you could copy the content of `/home/pi/screenly` over to a new installation. The most critical files would be the database file (`screenly.db`) and the assets folder.

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**Author:** ![godfather55v](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.screenly.io/godfather55v/32/80_2.png) [@godfather55v](https://forums.screenly.io/u/godfather55v)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/move-dead-screenly-settings/237/3 "2020-02-14T18:02:25Z")

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i’ve restored and old backup, and that brought back the system, things like the name of the pi and such. However the slides are still factory fresh. i’ve tried copying over the screenly.db as well and nothing changes. is there someplace else the besides /home/pi/screenly that it wold be looking? Or is there a way i can open that db to see if there was an accurate backup?

All my slides are web url’s, no actual media files.

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**Author:** ![godfather55v](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.screenly.io/godfather55v/32/80_2.png) [@godfather55v](https://forums.screenly.io/u/godfather55v)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/move-dead-screenly-settings/237/4 "2020-02-17T15:45:09Z")

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so i extracted the backup and dug down to the screenly.db file and opened that in db browser for sq-lite. opened up the file and in a table was able to get the url’s that i used.