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Just an FYI...
I just backed up my league and tried deleting any stories from the "messages" folder that were from 1970 through 1972 (my league is currently in 1973), leaving only those messages from 1973.
I was *hoping* that by doing that, and deleting the messages.dat file, OOTP would re-create a new messages.dat file when I opened it with only the 1973 stories still left in the "messages" folder. But alas, it didn't. OOTP had no messages at all listed in-game, and it instead created only an empty messages.dat file.
So apparently there's no way to selectively delete old news stories in the "messages" folder without understanding the format of the messages.dat file and re-configuring it to forget about the old news stories I deleted. It looks like it's either all or nothing. I like to at least keep the last few months of news around, so I guess I'll have to stick with all and just wait two minutes for my league file to open and save.
Has anyone found any way to *selectively* delete news stories from the "messages" folder, not just all of them? I'm really surprised there's not a good way to do this in-game. Maybe for OOTP9.
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