For those of you who are wondering why your saves disappeared and are scratching your head. It has nothing to do with the rollback patch problems, and here's what I found:
My previous version that I played and saw new content was 0.96. I had pulled 0.97 and noticed nothing new to play since I wasn't on the sandra path. Then I pulled 0.98.2-alt and tried to load saves. Nothing, nada, squat. Not even automatics.
Going into ~/.renpy (I'm on Linux) to look:
Code:
Haley-0.98.2-alt-pc $ ls ~/.renpy | grep -i haley
Haleyaltsave-1532454941
wtf.... Why is there a Haleyaltsave there that's empty and not something named just Haley-xxxx that's full of saves? Time to go grepping around for config settings of save directories:
Code:
Haley-0.98.2-alt-pc/game $ grep save_directory *.rpy
options.rpy:## Windows: %APPDATA\RenPy\<config.save_directory>
options.rpy:## Macintosh: $HOME/Library/RenPy/<config.save_directory>
options.rpy:## Linux: $HOME/.renpy/<config.save_directory>
options.rpy:define config.save_directory = "Haleyaltsave-1532454941"
That explains the empty Haley save directory. Let's see what's in 0.96.
Code:
Haley-0.96-pc/game $ grep save_directory *.rpy
options.rpy:## Windows: %APPDATA\RenPy\<config.save_directory>
options.rpy:## Macintosh: $HOME/Library/RenPy/<config.save_directory>
options.rpy:## Linux: $HOME/.renpy/<config.save_directory>
options.rpy:define config.save_directory = "Proj6-1532454941"
Do what now? So the author has been working on Proj6 (aka Haley) all this time and finally decided to change the name in a setting somewhere without realizing that it was going to disappear everyone's old saves?
