If player UI/HUD is saved client-side, why do HUD elements reset?

[Tint]

Every time I go back into Diadem the gauge for the aether cannon is huuuge again and blocks the timers on my buff list (fisher). Pretty annoying.

And yeah, huge job gauges as well.

[Elevin]

If the issue is that after a long break from the game or such and you are using a Windows PC, then very likely it's caused by Disk Cleanup settings or by the user freeing up space by deleting old, unused files.
The configuration file(s) location on a default Windows install is C drive > Users> {Your PC User Name}> Documents> My Games> FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn

disk cleanup is very specific in which folders it targets...it doesn't touch FF14 files.

I've noticed this too and it's incredibly annoying.

[Hasrat]

If this isn't a fixable issue, is there at least any sort of macro to be made to more quickly revert settings? Obviously there's no one quick fix, especially for more niche HUD elements like Logograms or Squadron Commands. But at the very least, for changing job gauges?

As is, if I swap to a job I haven't played in a bit, it's: Open System menu, open HUD layout, select gauge (and hope there's only one, fucks sake on the jobs with more...), open settings, switch job gauge back to Simple Mode, resize it down, save those settings (because it'd be too hard to incorporate the saving of those settings within overall saving the HUD layout....), relocate job gauge to preferred position, and save layout.

An awful damn lot of clicks that I'll probably have to repeat in a few months' time when I swap over again.