Xpiratez saved games not showing up

[the Ring Dang Doo]

Hi guys,

I've been having a blast playing Xpiratez and slugging my way through the first really hard battle for my gals.  I left the game open last night, and this morning found it had slowed to a crawl and soon froze entirely --- so I ended the task in Task Manager and restarted.  Windows 10 updated, and now OpenXcom still works (had to set it again to run the shortcut as administrator) but when I click "Load Game" it shows nothing but empty slots.

The files seem to still be in the GAME_1 etc. directories (dum.bin files).  Can I get OpenXcom to see them again?  I'd hate to have to start over entirely.

Thanks for any help.

[Meridian]

GAME_1 etc. directories were used in original xcom from 1994, they are not used anymore in OpenXcom (other than for import from original).

The saves from Xpiratez can be found in the directory where you installed the game, insubdirectory user/piratez, see attached screenshot.

[the Ring Dang Doo]

Thanks for that.  All I've got in there now is battle.cfg.  So I guess I've just got to start over?  Bummer.

[ivandogovich]

do a search on your pc for *.sav

This may help you find your user folder location.  Your savegames may be there.

More info here:
https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom#directory-locations

[Meridian]

Thanks for that.  All I've got in there now is battle.cfg.  So I guess I've just got to start over?  Bummer.

Have you saved at least once?
If yes, try searching for files with .sav extension on your hard drive, they must be somewhere...

[the Ring Dang Doo]

Hey, found 'em!  They were in C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\OpenXcom_XPiratez\user\piratez

Too weird.  But I copied them into the correct folder and it worked.

Thanks for the help!  Really nice of you guys.

[Meridian]

Glad it worked.

For next time, don't put anything manually into "Program Files"... Windows will move it into funny directories, even if it looks like it copies it there.

Just put it on your desktop.
Or anywhere else, where you have full access rights and it's not a standard Windows folder (e.g. in C:\Piratez\).