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Author Topic: Sticky on how to move saves to new version?  (Read 516 times)

VerdantSF

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Sticky on how to move saves to new version?
« on: October 04, 2010, 06:29:39 pm »
Is there a sticky anywhere with instructions on how to correctly move save games from one version to another?  Thanks!
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Urist McMick

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Re: Sticky on how to move saves to new version?
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2010, 06:31:58 pm »
Just copy the region folder to the new data/save directory
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Re: Sticky on how to move saves to new version?
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2010, 07:29:14 pm »
Well you've got to download the translator and have it recompile DF before you copy files out of three folders (one onto a thumb drive, set that aside for step forty two,) then go into the region folder and delete every seventh raw file. Open it up in the old version and then save it without compression so you can find the number of deer living in the world and then multiply the population site numbers by that value. Next you'll need to disregard this if you somehow haven't already realized it's bullshit because you just go into the file named saves and pull whichever folder you care about out of it and stick it in the new version's save folder.
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Re: Sticky on how to move saves to new version?
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2010, 07:32:38 pm »
should I also copy the raws from the new version into the save?
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Re: Sticky on how to move saves to new version?
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2010, 07:43:36 pm »
finally, now i don't have to start over or just wait till i get bored with my old fort to play the new version.
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Re: Sticky on how to move saves to new version?
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2010, 07:51:21 pm »
Quote from: slothen on October 04, 2010, 07:32:38 pm
should I also copy the raws from the new version into the save?

yes.
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