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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0003195Dwarf FortressTechnical -- Saving/Loadingpublic2011-03-08 14:08
Reporterdanaris Assigned Touser6 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status resolvedResolutionno change required 
PlatformMacintoshOSMac OS XOS Version10.6.4
Product Version0.31.12 
Summary0003195: Manual save auto-deletes itself
DescriptionI am a total noob attempting to go through the http://afteractionreporter.com/dwarf-fortress-tutorials/ for the first time, and as such have started from its saved game. When I attempt to do a manual save (Esc to reach the options menu, then Save the Game), it displays "Saving..." for several seconds. During this time, I can see that it creates, in the data/save/current/ folder, a "world.sav" file, that quickly grows to around 5MB. However, then it goes back to the main title menu, and the "world.sav" file disappears without a trace.

The game has saved two seasonal autosaves so far, and they seem to work just fine.
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kwieland

2010-09-10 15:06

reporter   ~0012564

This is the intended behavior. When you save a game, it will overwrite the version that you used to load the game. If you want to make backups, just copy the save file directory (data/save/???) and rename it. You'll notice that is what the seasonal backups do.

danaris

2011-03-08 13:44

reporter   ~0015975

Yeah...this was me being stupid. It can be closed.

user6

2011-03-08 14:08

  ~0015977

Thanks for bringing this report back to our attention!

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2010-09-10 12:24 danaris New Issue
2010-09-10 15:06 kwieland Note Added: 0012564
2011-03-08 13:44 danaris Note Added: 0015975
2011-03-08 14:08 user6 Note Added: 0015977
2011-03-08 14:08 user6 Status new => resolved
2011-03-08 14:08 user6 Resolution open => no change required
2011-03-08 14:08 user6 Assigned To => user6