Blue Iris

I had a big enough issue with my Blue Iris dedicated (windows 11) computer that I had to restore an image from late 2022.
I backed up my BI settings to a safe location before I did the image restore for the hard drive.
After the restore I launched BI, updated to current stable version, then did a restore of settings, and restarted.
Now I have old cameras (most don't work) and missing newer cameras and some cameras that do work because nothing would have changed since my last image backup.
What is the proper way to restore settings and cameras in a situation like this, where you restore an image then update BI to current?
Why aren't the cameras that were current at the settings backup restored only?

PS because I'm anal, I do have separate camera reg backups that I can import but I'd still like to know the answer to the above question.
Thanks

I haven't used that function for a long while, but last time I did it worked as you would expect. Are you sure you used the correct BI5 backup file ?

Yes, I used the one I made minutes before I restored my image.

That's one for Support I'm afraid.

It turns out, for me, it was a combination of restoring the settings and then restoring the cameras branch of the registry that got things back to normal.
I occasionally export the cameras branch when I make a lot of changes to the cameras.
I'm back up but still wondering what is the best method.