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hefalumps · 02-05-2017, 02:38 PM

This a technical question for some of the veterans out there...

I wanted to make sure my in-game backup was actually backing up all the files it needed to in case I ever have to restore from it. So I compared the league folder in my "saved_games" folder to the one in my "backup" folder using a file sync program. Most everything that wasn't the same was either HTML reports or graphics, all of which the game generates on the fly anyway. No big deal.

But then I noticed a big chunk of files from the news\txt subfolders that were missing from the "backup" folder. Specifically, all the ones from the previous season, such as "league_100_news_1970.txt" that had previously been called "league_100_news.txt" before moving on to 1971.

My question - does OOTP generate these news\txt files from a DAT file so that they could be recreated? In previous versions I'm pretty sure the txt files were the source of all of this. If that's changed and all this stuff is safe in a DAT file that's backed up, great. If not, I'm curious why OOTP didn't consider that these files needed backing up. And if that's the case, I guess I should do a "Copy all files" backup at the beginning of every preseason to make sure I don't miss anything historical if I ever need to restore.

Hope someone can clear this up for me. Thanks!

02-05-2017, 02:38 PM	#1
hefalumps All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,392	Question about OOTP Backup and Txt News This a technical question for some of the veterans out there... I wanted to make sure my in-game backup was actually backing up all the files it needed to in case I ever have to restore from it. So I compared the league folder in my "saved_games" folder to the one in my "backup" folder using a file sync program. Most everything that wasn't the same was either HTML reports or graphics, all of which the game generates on the fly anyway. No big deal. But then I noticed a big chunk of files from the news\txt subfolders that were missing from the "backup" folder. Specifically, all the ones from the previous season, such as "league_100_news_1970.txt" that had previously been called "league_100_news.txt" before moving on to 1971. My question - does OOTP generate these news\txt files from a DAT file so that they could be recreated? In previous versions I'm pretty sure the txt files were the source of all of this. If that's changed and all this stuff is safe in a DAT file that's backed up, great. If not, I'm curious why OOTP didn't consider that these files needed backing up. And if that's the case, I guess I should do a "Copy all files" backup at the beginning of every preseason to make sure I don't miss anything historical if I ever need to restore. Hope someone can clear this up for me. Thanks!