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Keep old versions of saved games when these are overwritten
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 1:51
by SupFanat
It could happen that you overwrite your savegame to find out that you didn't want to overwrite it. But compared to all modern hard drives and even flash drives the savegames are so tiny that everyone could afford keeping several versions as backup. For example some utility could be set to keep unlimoted old versions of all .ck1, .ck2, .ck3, .ck4, .ck5, .ck6 files and use up 1 GB disk space for this purpose. Is there any such utility for Windows? Linux (Ubuntu)? Mac? Thank you for your suggestions!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:05
by VikingBoyBilly
It would require having the keen source codes to change the way it's done (not limited to a few pre-named slots).
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 13:08
by Fleexy
On Windows,
File History (for nontechnical end-users) or the
Volume Shadow Copy Service (for developers) do what you want.
Dropbox, which works on every major platform, keeps every version of each file around for 30 days.
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 14:19
by Keening_Product
To complete the workaround list: I'm pretty sure Linux users running systems on BTRFS have similar options.
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 14:53
by VikingBoyBilly
Or you can do that copy and paste of backups thing fleexy mentioned.
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 4:39
by SupFanat
Why change Keen? It makes no sense.
Let Keen think that SAVEGAM3.CK4 is overwritten but some externa, utility keeps the old version reachable fou used but not for Keen.
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:31
by namida
Sounds like someone needs to set up a GitHub repo for their save files...
