Back up your Oculus Rift S

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If you restore your games from a backup you’ll lose your saved progress

When the Meta Quest Link app is uninstalled, any content you’ve downloaded for your Oculus Rift S or Rift will also be uninstalled. To make sure you don’t have to install your content again, you can back up your Oculus software folder in case you ever need to uninstall the Oculus app.


Back up and restore content

To backup the content you’ve downloaded:

  1. From your computer, close the Meta Quest Link app.
  2. Find the folder you downloaded the Meta Quest Link app to.
  3. Copy the Software folder and then back it up to a new file location.

To restore the content you’ve downloaded:

  1. Move the back up file you saved previously back into the Software folder within the Meta Quest Link app folder.
    • If you did not change the directory during setup, the Oculus app folder remains as C:\Program Files\Meta\Software.
    • If you changed the directory during setup, move the contents into the folder you chose.
  2. Open the Meta Quest Link app then select Settings in the left menu.
  3. Select the Beta tab and click Restart.

Once you restart the Meta Quest Link app, make sure to restore the content by clicking Download. Once you restore your content, it'll show up in your library.


Move installed content

To move content you've downloaded between multiple libraries:

You can add, remove, or delete library locations to save apps and files for your Oculus Rift S or Rift to different locations on your computer. Once you've created multiple library locations, you can move content you've downloaded from one library location to another:

  1. From your computer desktop, locate and open both library location folders in Windows File Explorer.
    • If you left the Meta Quest Link app to install at the default location, your old library folder can be found at C:\Program Files\Meta\Software. If you changed the install location for the Meta Quest Link app, your old library folder will be found at the location you chose.
  2. Open the Task Manager app on your computer and navigate to the Services tab, stop OVRService and close the Meta Quest Link app.
  3. In your old library folder, find the game folder for the game you'd like to move (ex: C:\Program Files\Meta\Software\Software).
  4. Cut the game folder and paste it into your new library folder.
  5. In your old library folder, find the Manifest folder (ex: C:\Program Files\Meta\Software\Manifests), cut the two files for the game you want to move, and paste them into the new library's manifest folder.
  6. In Task Manager, navigate to the Services tab and start OVRService.
  7. Open the Oculus app and select Restart under the Beta tab within your Settings menu.

Your game should now be available in your new library location.

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