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Originally Posted by middleson
you are correct actionjackson I was just saving it to the flashdrive, I will give your suggestions a try, would the backup and restore been a better route for me?
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To be fair conception was correct first. I just piled on. As I said, the backup and restore option only became available with OOTP11. If you're playing this in version 6.5, you won't be able to use it. However if you update it to version 11, which means you have to have 8, 9, and 10 and run it through those first (I don't know how to do this because I've never done it and I've heard some stories of ratings getting screwed up and other stories of everything going just fine - no personal experience though), you can use the backup and restore option. There are pluses and minuses to both. The save to an external drive option takes longer (and gets progressively longer as you move forward in your game), however when you copy it back into your saved_games folder everything is there as it was when you saved it. Backup and restore is quicker up front, but I'm not sure whether everything is there when you go to restore it. I.e. You may only get the bare bones of your game back. It will still work, but I'm not sure if it gives you every single detail that you had before. I'm not sure on this though because I've never used it. If you're a details guy, you might not like that. Others can feel free to chime in on how it works anytime to help middleson make the decision as to what method he'll use in the future or maybe he'll use both just to be like extra sure.
