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Yeah, realised that only after posting, and removed my extra 'it'd be really difficult to decide which backup to choose' paragraph/mini-essay a minute later...Ahruman wrote:I assumed DH meant to restore in case of brokenness.
By writing such a line in the save file itself, it implicit says that it is officially allowed to edit a save game.Rxke wrote:A bit offtopic: couldn't we insert a beginning comment in all savefiles saying: WARNING: if you opened this file in notepad, DO NOT SAVE IT! Use notepad++ instead
Just a thought.... This problem seems to be a regularly recurring one.
Firm but fair!Ahruman wrote:I assumed DH meant to restore in case of brokenness.
But frankly, if you break your saved game without making a backup, that’s your problem. Protecting against crashes caused by bad data is our problem. Protecting against self-inflicted data loss is not.