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Offline BetterBite

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Where are the save files located?
« on: March 24, 2016, 10:32:53 pm »
Im trying to find the save files. I can't find them ANY. WHERE.

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Re: Where are the save files located?
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2016, 12:26:25 am »
The obvious questions are "what OS" and "how did you install openxcom"?

if it's winblows and "using the 1.0 installer" then the answer is
C:\Users\Bollocks\Documents\OpenXcom\xcom1

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Re: Where are the save files located?
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2016, 12:57:06 am »
Alternately, search "*.sav" on your system.  It should return all your save files.

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Re: Where are the save files located?
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2016, 01:23:42 pm »
Ok nothing told me the save files are not saved in the application folder but in documents.

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Re: Where are the save files located?
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2016, 11:21:12 am »
That's how it's supposed to be, regardless of how installed... The exact folder in your user folder is a different matter. Bit user files belong nowhere else than the users folder...

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Re: Where are the save files located?
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2016, 08:46:00 pm »
I'll use this opportunity that in Microsoft whoever decided that saves should be located at some enforced folder on C: should be slowly consumed by a pack of Silacoids.

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Re: Where are the save files located?
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2024, 09:43:24 am »
I have accidentally deleted a post from a new user today... fat finger on a phone.
Sorry.

Attached is the original from pierrotblue: "I lost al my savegames when I did a backup... Put the savegames in the game folder."