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Metallion

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UAC & Save File strangeness
« on: February 17, 2014, 08:37:46 pm »

Alienware m17x Winsows 7 64-bit
MDF v4h

1) Running MDF triggers UAC.  MDF v4f didn't.

2)
Seasonal saves enabled.
When I save between seasons, the save doesn't happen.  There is a direction in $DF/saves called current with the timestamp of the save, but the directory is empty.  This also wasn't an issue in MDF v4f.

Any thoughts?

Thanks again!
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kamikazi1231

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Re: UAC & Save File strangeness
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2014, 09:32:57 pm »

First I'd just try disabling any antivius and firewall and re downloading just in case of corruption during download and unzipping.  I've had strange issues like that in the past.
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Re: UAC & Save File strangeness
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2014, 05:09:23 am »

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When I save between seasons, the save doesn't happen.
It does. The current folder is always empty. - It saves into the folder you loaded. So if you loaded "Region 5 - summer 31" and play one year (and its now summer 32) and save the game, your most recent save is in "Region 5 - summer 31".

Thats not a nice system, but its the vanilla DF system that I cant change.
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Metallion

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Re: UAC & Save File strangeness
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2014, 07:44:15 am »

To test my understanding...

If I load Region 1 - Summer 205, play through two seasons, and save, the order of save directories is:

region1-sum-205 (load)
region1-aut-205 (automatic)
region1-winter-205 (automatic)
region1-sum-205 (manual save)
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kamikazi1231

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Re: UAC & Save File strangeness
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2014, 07:48:54 am »

That's exactly right.  I usually always load just region 1.   Then if I have a fatal crash or something I'll go find the latest automatic save, rename it to region 1, delete the other region 1 and just go from there.  I'll also periodically delete old auto saves on long running forts.  Less to look through and DF saves take up a surprisingly large amount of space.
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Re: UAC & Save File strangeness
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2014, 12:52:43 pm »

The UAC triggers the alert EVERY SINGLE TIME I press play and asks if I want to allow the program to edit windows files (and the file is itself). Got so annoyed I had to turn off the notification.
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