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r/dwarffortress•
Raenn

My saves don't save?

Hey fellow dorfs, my first post here. I've been playing the game for about a month now but this is really starting to frustrate me - every time I save the game from the menu, it'll act as if it's saved, but if I try and load the file it'll have reverted to the seasonal autosave so any progress since then is lost.

I did a quick search here and on the wiki but didn't find anything conclusive; most people put it down to mods but I'm using a vanilla install with just a tileset added. Any advice?

Posted Sep 7, 2010, 10:47 AM UTC

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drexhex•

If you loaded from a seasonal save, it will save to that seasonal save. Took me a while to figure that out.

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yatima2975•

If I want to find out where my most recent save is, I go through all my save directories and look for the youngest world.sav. DFs savesystem is curious, to say the least!

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kukulkan•

This is the correct answer.

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RaennOP•

Ah, thank you! I'll definitely have to keep an eye out for this. :D

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Fosnez•

Windows 7?

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Ziaix•

I get this too on Win 7.

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RaennOP•

Vista, actually. Looks like a lot of people are having the problem here with 7 though, so I guess it's not a stretch for vista to be the problem :(

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Mnementh2230•

My wife has this problem as well, on Windows 7.

Oddly, I don't have this problem on Windows 7.

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McDeau•

I hate when they get broken.

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sirmuffinman•

I've only been able to get it to save on Linux. Otherwise I just turn on seasonal saves.

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MakingYouRage•

Windows 7 here and I had the same sort of problem, the saves werent appearing to save. What to do is a quick search in the dwarffortress directory for 'world' and then organise it by date modified. The SAV file that is newest is your save :)

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evvvad•

The trick is. Every time you exit the game, save, not relying on the autosave. This way It always loads how one would expect it to. Otherwise, find the newest save (go into the save files and fine the newest file by looking at when it was modified), load that, and delete or back up the others.

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ChaosMotor•

You are probably accidentally opening the wrong save file.

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