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[Iain]

Hi, guys,

I reformatted my computer recently. I had backed up my entire Dwarf Fortress folder onto a network drive. I put the folder back on my computer, and now my save games appear to be gone. They're still in the save directory, but when I load up Dwarf Fortress I don't get an option to continue my game.

Is there anywhere outside of the save folder that save games are held? Is it possible that the executable is looking in the wrong place somehow?

[PMantix]

That's kind of strange.

If that happened to me I would do the following:

1. Copy your save folder from DF/data/save/[your save] to a safe place
2. Download a fresh copy of DF
3. Install any special stuff (init, tileset, graphics, mods,..)
4. Put your saved folder back in the data/save folder (which you have to create if you haven't played on that install yet)


It's kind of a pain getting a new DF install going if you have a bunch of stuff installed, I know. But that's what I would do.


If it was working before you moved it to your network drive, and doesn't work now that you brought it back..  something obviously didn't get copied correctly. That's my guess at least.

Good luck man.