# How to fully restore a working RW6 installation with all purchased plugins and themes from backup

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**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [January 25, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-to-fully-restore-a-working-rw6-installation-with-all-purchased-plugins-and-themes-from-backup/5098 "2016-01-25T10:19:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qosmio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/qosmio/32/2318_2.png) [@Qosmio](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Qosmio)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-to-fully-restore-a-working-rw6-installation-with-all-purchased-plugins-and-themes-from-backup/5098/1 "2016-01-25T10:19:23Z")

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Hi there,  
I’m using RW for several years now and never experienced serious problems. Yesterday though I tried to fire RW6 up and it asked me for a license?. I provided the license number and RW6 started. The problem is now that all my plugins, themes, stacks etc. are lost. RW reports that plugins an themes are missing!!! And I collected a lot during the years! I think this happened after using the CleanMyMac app… But I’m not sure.  
I do have backups of my iMac and want to restore ONLY the RW6 installation so I can work on my projects again. What must be restored (besides the app itself) to get a working RW6.3.7 installation again.  
I’ve found some directories like: ~/Library/Group Containers/com.realmacsoftware.rapidweaver and ˜/Library/Application Support/Rapidweaver

Help please, i’m lost here…

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**Author:** ![nikf](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/nikf/32/10_2.png) [@nikf](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/nikf)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-to-fully-restore-a-working-rw6-installation-with-all-purchased-plugins-and-themes-from-backup/5098/2 "2016-01-25T11:01:43Z")

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If you were to restore the ~/Library/Containers/com.realmacsoftware.rapidweaver6 folder, and then immediately restart your Mac, you _may_ find this fixes things. The restart should be considered _non-optional_.

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**Author:** ![Qosmio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/qosmio/32/2318_2.png) [@Qosmio](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Qosmio)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-to-fully-restore-a-working-rw6-installation-with-all-purchased-plugins-and-themes-from-backup/5098/3 "2016-01-25T12:01:38Z")

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Thanks a lot,  
This did fix my problem 🙂

Greets,  
Q.