I haven't tried, I usually move the card into the main male/female directory, but if I had to guess, it probably would write to the existing card, maybe make a copy temporarily in the main folder to act as a sort of conduit.thanks for the explanation.
So what happens if you use a card from a custom directory. Is the original card modified or a copy is made?
is the corruption an issue if you are in create mode and not running two instances of the game?
What if you remove the card from the group and then edit it in create mode, does that translate back into the game if you add the girl to the group? do you lose all the stats with the girl that you built up during gameplay?
You should never be running two instances of the game, that has got to play hell with resource usage anyway. As for create mode, you still won't be able to save to the card at all. You can create a completely new card, but that's it.
If you remove a card from a group, yes, you should be able to edit it again as it is then removed entirely from the game. Since even stats from actions in game are saved to the card, if you were to take it out of the group and put it back in without editing, it would continue as it was when it was removed, but editing is supposed to clear all in game information, so if it saved correctly, you should be starting completely fresh. That said, not saving correctly in this specific case is not the same as not saving correctly if, for example, you were creating a brand new card. Saving to an existing card and it not saving correctly usually just means the data didn't get cleared from its last time in game, saving to a new card and it not saving correctly would more likely lead to total corruption and inability to use the card in game without overwriting the corrupt data.