Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste

[Stone Lake]

I'm guessing you've installed new OXCE to a different folder other than your old installation, and thus you can't access them from your new OXCE, that expects them to be in a different folder.
So you need to locate your old installation and copy the saves from there to your new OXCE. They usually live at ...OXCE/user/x-com-files, or sometimes in user documents.
If you have no idea where old OXCE is, do a drive-wide search for "x-com-files" and/or "*.sav" files, which should help locate the saves in general, or search for "OpenXCom.exe" for old installation.

Also russian VK x-com-files community may be better equipped to help with this.

[Student]

I'm guessing you've installed new OXCE to a different folder other than your old installation, and thus you can't access them from your new OXCE, that expects them to be in a different folder.
So you need to locate your old installation and copy the saves from there to your new OXCE. They usually live at ...OXCE/user/x-com-files, or sometimes in user documents.
If you have no idea where old OXCE is, do a drive-wide search for "x-com-files" and/or "*.sav" files, which should help locate the saves in general, or search for "OpenXCom.exe" for old installation.

Also russian VK x-com-files community may be better equipped to help with this.

Save-fails found. which folder should I save them to?

[Solarius Scorch]

Save-fails found. which folder should I save them to?

Go to Options, then Folders.

[DarthTheIII]

I think something with the surrender mechanic just failed to work correctly.  I was clearing a dagon base, and had the cult panic spiraling, I was looking around the whole map expecting to find a hiding gilldog preventing their surrender.  Instead I found a dagon priest with no weapon (I assume he panicked and dropped it).  After I killed him the mission ended.  Is there any way for a dagon priest to be empty handed besides going unconcious and panicking?  Both should have flagged him to surrender.

[psavola]

I think something with the surrender mechanic just failed to work correctly.  I was clearing a dagon base, and had the cult panic spiraling, I was looking around the whole map expecting to find a hiding gilldog preventing their surrender.  Instead I found a dagon priest with no weapon (I assume he panicked and dropped it).  After I killed him the mission ended.  Is there any way for a dagon priest to be empty handed besides going unconcious and panicking?  Both should have flagged him to surrender.

This is working as defined though one may wonder if this is the best balanced.

Dagon priests, chosens and sorcerers by ruleset definition cannot surrender. In contrast, all exalt and red dawn cultists can surrender, and only Black Lotus assassins cannot surrender. But 2x2 units cannot. All second tier cultists can surrender. All hybrids can surrender. No alien units or monsters can surrender.

[DarthTheIII]

Huh, well that makes sense.  I thought priests could surrender for some reason.  Probably cause they mostly look like "normal" humans with robes.