Better back-up restore function

mitchkenn · 10-07-2016, 04:06 PM

it has been pretty well discussed in a few of the forums, new users (and many experienced users) have trouble with the current Back-up and restore function. i'm not certain the current system needs to be totally ditched, but at least a much better tutorial of what needs to get typed - when and where - would be a boon. It's pretty awkward and un-user friendly as it is. i had to ditch one league early on, because i couldn't figure it out (before i knew about these boards.) Even now i've used it a few times, it's not easy to fumble through.

RchW posted a great pictoral in this thread .... could it be linked or somehow part of the game as a "how-to"?
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post4084018

as for myself, i back up daily to an external HD, but only plan on using that in case of a major disaster. My main way has become to create a .zip file of my game folder three times or so a game year, and just drop the newest zip (which has a slightly different name such as New Game 1aa) into my game folder if needed.

rbux · 11-01-2019, 06:36 PM

I couldn't agree more, I just experienced this first hand. Restoring my game from files created using the in-game back-up function, onto a new computer, did not work. I routinely backed up my game to a cloud service thinking I was safe, but I wasn't. The back-up function is broken. I almost lost my league that I have been playing continuously since about OOTP6. Fortunately I still had the game on my old computer and I copied and pasted the whole 19GBs into the newly installed game. This is a HUGE problem which I hope gets addressed in OOTP21.

10-07-2016, 04:06 PM	#1
mitchkenn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Oregon, not by design Posts: 2,853	Better back-up restore function it has been pretty well discussed in a few of the forums, new users (and many experienced users) have trouble with the current Back-up and restore function. i'm not certain the current system needs to be totally ditched, but at least a much better tutorial of what needs to get typed - when and where - would be a boon. It's pretty awkward and un-user friendly as it is. i had to ditch one league early on, because i couldn't figure it out (before i knew about these boards.) Even now i've used it a few times, it's not easy to fumble through. RchW posted a great pictoral in this thread .... could it be linked or somehow part of the game as a "how-to"? http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post4084018 as for myself, i back up daily to an external HD, but only plan on using that in case of a major disaster. My main way has become to create a .zip file of my game folder three times or so a game year, and just drop the newest zip (which has a slightly different name such as New Game 1aa) into my game folder if needed. __________________ "This is my opening farewell " - Jackson Browne “They make a desolation and call it peace.” ― Agha Shahid Ali "Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song - And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong." - Townes Van Zandt "I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch - He called out to me, 'Don't ask for so much' And a young woman leaning in her darkened door She cried out to me, 'Why not ask for more?' " - Leonard Cohen "Hello darkness, my old Friend ...." - Paul Simon Before Mays, before DiMaggio, there was Oscar Charleston. "All the lies about Babe Ruth are true." - Waite Hoyt Avatar is the late great Townes Van Zandt. rip. Last edited by mitchkenn; 10-07-2016 at 04:13 PM.

11-01-2019, 06:36 PM	#2
rbux Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Edmonds, Wa Posts: 50	I couldn't agree more, I just experienced this first hand. Restoring my game from files created using the in-game back-up function, onto a new computer, did not work. I routinely backed up my game to a cloud service thinking I was safe, but I wasn't. The back-up function is broken. I almost lost my league that I have been playing continuously since about OOTP6. Fortunately I still had the game on my old computer and I copied and pasted the whole 19GBs into the newly installed game. This is a HUGE problem which I hope gets addressed in OOTP21. Last edited by rbux; 11-01-2019 at 06:49 PM. Reason: clarification