[Mattymo]

Originally Posted by 1998 Yankees

Woof. This is why I hesitate to dispense advice. It's just that I remembered your predicament, Mattymo. Anyway, it sounds like you:

1) did not delete the message.dat file as well as the messages in the message folder, and
2) deleted the entire news folder which includes two subfolders, html and txt. Within those are two crucial subsubfolders, news\html\images (which contains logos) and news\txt\players (which contains player history).

So, I hope you took my final piece of advice which was to BACK UP your saved game folder before you did any of this.

FYI, this is a note that I wrote to myself:

FILES THAT ARE SAFE TO DELETE TO IMPROVE GAME PERFORMANCE
In the saved game folder:
messages - delete entire contents of this folder; NOTE: ALSO DELETE MESSAGE.DAT.
news\html - delete contents of all folders except images; do not delete the index file.
news\txt - delete contents of leagues and teams folders; do not delete anything from players folder.

The html folder generally just contains html files that the game has generated; reports that you looked at, box scores, etc. All of which you can do without, IMO (except logos).

The txt folder contains history text files, all of which you can do without, IMO (except player histories). BUT, YOUR PREFERENCE MAY BE DIFFERENT. For example, in here are transaction and injury logs from years gone by, who cares? There are also team news files in here that you may want to keep, however, so you might want to look through this folder and its subfolders before you delete anything.

BTW, usually, we are talking about deleting the contents of folders, not the folders themselves. I would leave the folder structure in place, even if some of them are empty.

Well, I'm thinking of self-banishment from this board. I really hope you backed up your game, Mattymo.

No problems 1998 Yankees. First off, I DID backup my game, but didn't even bother restoring it because I'm just simming history right now (and I'm only in 1930, so I'm not worried about players history so much). So now I know better for the future.

No self-banishment, I enjoy seeing the Yankees insignia when I log on

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