after one big disaster a few years ago, losing 50 years of playing i learned to make backups and how to restore the game from them. Now i make back-ups, a lot of backups.
Two days ago, under the weather, lack of sleep (and not paying attention obviously), i made a few changes to my game and i saved it, making yet another back-up. This morning, feeling better, i returned to make some off season moves and i discovered i could no longer make trades. (That option was greyed out.) Obviously i had changed something import, but i couldn't recall what i had altered, nor after did an hour of searching settings could i find the issue.
So, reluctantly, i went to a back up of about a week earlier. i lost a month of the game (including the play-offs) but i was able to get the game running perfectly again and the trade option was enabled again. YES!!! Replayed the play-offs and made it as far as i did the first time, which was only right, i guess.
it took me a while to learn how to restore from a back-up those few years ago. now i make too many of them, me thinks at times, but after this weekends issue, i'll probably be making them more often.
about a year ago, or so, RchW wrote this piece, with pictures on how to back-up and restore. it's great. i've bookmarked and have returned to it more than once. It's an essential for anyone needing to know how to use the back-up function easily.
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...97#post4084018
Back-ups rule!!!