HidHide loses all cloaks after attempting to add new cloak

[udance4ever]

• I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates
• I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended
• I have read the project documentation and not found a solution to my problem there
• This isn't a feature request or a discussion topic

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Bug description

I had to make room for new installs and temporarily deleted old installs and assumed HidHide would preserve those cloak regardless of whether or not paths exist.

Steps to reproduce

• start with Windows 10
• install HidHide & DS4Windows
• ensure they are operational and working
• install GTA V
• cloak the main executable (.EXE)
• delete the GTA V installation directory
• install other games
• attempt to add a new cloak
• watch all previous cloaks disappear from the list 🫪

Actual result: All user defined cloaks disappear from list and only defaults remain: HidHide.exe and DS4Windows.exe
Expected result: All previous cloaks plus new cloak

Screenshots

I'm not booted into Windows right now - the screen looks exactly like a new configuration of HidHide with the 2 defaults: HidHide.exe and DS4Windows.exe

Machine info

CPU-Architecture: x86
Windows version: Windows 10
Software/driver version(s): is this referring to the version of HidHide or some other driver?

Any other helpful information

I'd like to confirm whether HidHide "cleans up" any cloaks with paths that no longer exist/

If so, I would assert this is a feature that doesn't work as intended.
If this is not the case, then it is something related to adding of the new cloak that nuked my configuration.

I am unable to rebuild my cloak list from memory. If there is a way to somehow retrieve this, this would also be appreciated (but is not the focus on this report, just a side quest :)

[nefarius]

I am unable to rebuild my cloak list from memory. If there is a way to somehow retrieve this, this would also be appreciated (but is not the focus on this report, just a side quest :)

Yes; restore your most recent system partition backup anyone who values the content of their PC should have 😉

As for the core issue, I do vaguely recall that the GUI client cleans out not-found paths on close but I'd need to check the code to be sure. I'm somewhat confident that that's been a feature since forever.