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Backups

FiveLaunch keeps your setup safe two ways: a My Setup snapshot that live FiveM always returns to after a session, and a central backup store of safety snapshots taken before it ever changes a folder or file. Both are browsable and restorable from inside the app. You should still keep one manual backup of your own before doing anything advanced. It’s the fastest way back to a completely clean state.

My Setup: your baseline snapshot

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The first time you run FiveLaunch it captures your current FiveM files into a client called My Setup. This snapshot is the baseline every session returns to: whatever a client swaps in while you play, closing the game puts FiveM back to your My Setup exactly as it was when you captured it.

Create it

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  1. On first run: the setup dialog offers Snapshot my setup & continue. This captures My Setup for you. (You can Skip snapshot and do it later.)

  2. Later, from Settings: open Settings → Snapshot · My Setup and choose Create snapshot to capture your current FiveM files as the baseline.

Restore it

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After every session FiveLaunch restores My Setup automatically. To force it right away, for example if a launch went sideways, open Settings → Snapshot · My Setup and choose Restore now to put FiveM back to your snapshot immediately.

The central backup store

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When FiveLaunch first takes ownership of a folder or file, it snapshots the existing contents into a single central store:

  • %APPDATA%\FiveLaunch\backups\

Browse & restore in-app

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Open Backup History in FiveLaunch to see every snapshot with its timestamp and what it captured, and restore any entry in place.

  1. Close FiveM and GTA V (restoring touches files the game may lock).

  2. Open Backup History in FiveLaunch.

  3. Pick the snapshot you want and choose Restore.

What to back up yourself

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For a belt-and-suspenders manual copy, these are the locations FiveLaunch can modify during linking/sync:

  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\FiveM\FiveM.app\mods
  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\FiveM\FiveM.app\plugins
  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\FiveM\FiveM.app\citizen
  • %APPDATA%\CitizenFX\gta5_settings.xml
  • %APPDATA%\CitizenFX\CitizenFX.ini

If FiveM is installed somewhere custom, back up the equivalent folders under your own FiveM.app path instead.

One-command snapshot (PowerShell)

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Close FiveM and GTA V first, then run this to zip the key folders to your Desktop (edit the paths if your install differs):

Terminal window
$stamp = Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMdd-HHmmss"
$dest = "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\FiveM-backup-$stamp.zip"


$paths = @(
  "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\FiveM\FiveM.app\mods",
  "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\FiveM\FiveM.app\plugins",
  "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\FiveM\FiveM.app\citizen",
  "$env:APPDATA\CitizenFX\gta5_settings.xml",
  "$env:APPDATA\CitizenFX\CitizenFX.ini"
)


Compress-Archive -Path $paths -DestinationPath $dest -Force
Write-Host "Created: $dest"

Back up your FiveLaunch profiles

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Your clients (and their per-client mods/plugins/settings) live in the FiveLaunch data directory, separate from FiveM’s own folders. To preserve or migrate them, copy:

  • %APPDATA%\FiveLaunch\clients.json: the profile list and options.
  • %APPDATA%\FiveLaunch\clients\: each client’s files.
  • %APPDATA%\FiveLaunch\backups\: the snapshot store (optional, if you want history too).

Restoring

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  1. Close FiveM and GTA V.

  2. Back to your baseline: open Settings → Snapshot · My Setup and choose Restore now.

  3. From FiveLaunch: open Backup History and restore the snapshot you want.

  4. From your own zip: extract it back to the original locations.