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Tanman · Post by **Tanman** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:23 am

Can anyone pls tell me where the game saves are located. I have run out of save slots and want to delete some.

Post by **Cmdr James** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:30 am

On which platform? Windows?

On my mac they are in ~/oolite-saves

I think on windows its likely to be something like C:/Users/yourname/oolite-saves but I dont run oolite on windows, so I am not certain.

Tanman · Post by **Tanman** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:43 am

It is on PC ( Vista ) but I cannot see it in the saved games file.

Post by **Cmdr James** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:08 pm

I found an old post from Lestraeda stating that

C:/User/*USERNAME*/AppData/Local/VirtualStore/Program Files/Oolite/oolite.app/oolite-saves

you may need to change the windows "hide system files" or something similar to see it...

Post by **another_commander** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:12 pm

This is Vista virtualizing your Program Files folder. Cmdr James has pointed you to the location of your saves, but if you are on Vista and would rather avoid all this virtualization mess, it's best if you install Oolite in a folder other than Program Files. C:\Oolite or C:\Games\Oolite would be just fine.

Tanman · Post by **Tanman** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:32 pm

Found it, many thanks for the pointers.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:18 pm

Wait, we have save slots?

Solas · Post by **Solas** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:20 pm

except on Vista where we have 'virtualised' 'save slots'

Screet · Post by **Screet** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:52 pm

Ahruman wrote:
Wait, we have save slots?

Not really, but it takes some while to go through many saves (with different ships) and if the first page is full, it also takes a little bit until the game is reacting to cursor left/right. If someone quickly tries to do so, i can imagine that this leads to the perception of limited save slots

I myself place all but 2-3 save files in an "old games" folder to reduce the time to browse through.

Screet

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:52 am

I do as Screet does and also back them up to cd. Just incase of catastrophic sys failure.

Learned that the hard way!!