I have a separate drive for all test games, in this I have three folders, one for testing, one for completed that I wish to play again sometime and one for ongoing but good.Sorry, but I have to ask: How?
Personally, I have a folder titled Games.
I store my games there.
When I've finished a game, for RenPy I delete everything except for the game\saves folder.
For this game, I can delete everything except for the profile folder.
When a new version comes out, I download the zipped archive & then just right click and Extract here.
Then copy the saves folder from the old version's folder, to the new one's.
Then delete the (now empty) old one, completely.
How did you end up with the game being multiple layers of folder deep?
I honestly do not understand how this is possible, without choosing to.
Even then, where do all the other sub-folders appear from?
under the test games I unzip the new games, and they always create 2 sub-folders - for Mystwood I move these to the ongoing sub-folder and under another folder called Mystwood Manor which is under a Novel-M sub folder. If I forget to place the say version 5.0 folder directly under this folder and it has created 2 levels it is now 6 layers down I have to remember to raise it to be just under the Mystwood Manor sub-folder and everything works fine (I know it sounds complicated but I like to keep everything organized)