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Originally Posted by Fardaza
Wow! I wasn't expecting this many answers. Thanks All.
It's what BirdWatcher said. I have an old league save that has gone through several upgrades and is currently in 2019 non-Steam format. I was thinking of upgrading to 2021 version. (I know I need to download 2020 as an intermediate step.) I just wanted to know if this save would work if I bought the Steam version.
I would also like to know if the Steam game eliminates some of the looooong save times when backing up the files. My game seems to have suffered severe bloat over the years. It can be very laggy and even make me think it's locked up occasionally, only to keep on chugging along after a bit. Will this go away if I get a clean version on Steam and simply load my saved league?
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There is a solution to that using a DOS batch file. I call it boxlogdelete.bat. see the text replicated below. Before you use it do a full back up and store it away from your saved games folder. Note bat files can't be stopped and I can't guarantee they will work for every league file.
I typically run this Jan 1 of the new year in game. It reduces league size considerably.
Type the following into a text editor and name it with the extension .bat. Copy it to the your league.lg folder (where the .dat files are), and with OOTP not running, double click to run.
del .\news\txt\leagues\log_*.txt
del .\news\html\box_scores\*.html
del .\news\html\game_logs\*.html
del .\replays\*.rpl
del .\messages\message*.txt
del .\dump_20**_yearly\*.*
del .\news\almanac_20**\*.*
This will delete all the files indicated. There is no going back. After it has run you should delete the messages.dat file before opening the league. The messages.dat file will be rebuilt when the league is opened.
Sorry to be legalistic.
Use at your own risk