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Re: can't rename saves and can't delete saves from load game menu

@StardustVoid  It's clear you use "save as" often, which is why you have so many separate save files, but they still shouldn't have reached an 8-digit hexidecimal number.  For reference, "My Saved Game 2,241,087,334" in your Main Menu screenshot corresponds to Slot_85944767.save, and 2,241,087,334 is 85944766 in hexidecimal (base-16, as in, the digits are 0 to 9, a to f).  Since slot 00000001 is not used by the game, the numbers match exactly, which I at least find interesting.

Anyway, somehow your game started counting at a much higher number than the Slot_00000030 in your other screenshot.  I don't know if this itself is the issue, or if the issue is simply that you have too many saves, but either way it's easy to address.  Move the entire saves folder to your desktop, open the game to create a new one, copy (not move) the most recent save to that folder (but no others), and rename the file Slot_00000002.save (seven zeroes, then a 2).  Don't copy over any other files yet; just see whether you can rename or delete the save.  Since you're copying the file, it won't matter if you delete the new copy, but if you'd prefer, you can experiment with older saves instead.

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  • StardustVoid's avatar
    StardustVoid
    4 years ago

    I'll try this asap. I never use the save as option. I do, in fact, make a sim and start a save file immediately after wards to see them in game.

  • StardustVoid's avatar
    StardustVoid
    4 years ago

    Just tried it and it let me rename the save and delete it. Where do I go from here?

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @StardustVoid  From here, you can start copying over other saves, renaming them, checking them out in-game, and deleting the ones you don't want to keep.  In your position though, I might just set aside the entire saves folder and only copy over a few saves I knew I wanted to keep playing.  The rest could be stored on an external drive where they'd be out of the way.

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @LIIIIIIIIEEEES  The easiest thing is probably to just move the entire saves folder to the desktop and let the game generate a new one.  Then you can move over the saves you want to keep.  Sorting by date modified, you can figure out or at least guess which ones you'd want to keep, then move over a few at a time and see what loads.  If you want to get rid of any saves, you can simply trash the files yourself rather than asking the game to do it.

    I'd recommend renaming them first, or at least the ones where the number starts with an 8: it seems that the game doesn't always handle whose well.  A save needs to be labeled Slot_[number].save in order for it to be read, with the number being an eight-digit hexidecimal (as in, it uses digits 0 to 9, then a to f, then back to 10).  The save files with a .verx on the end are the automatic backups; delete the .verx extension, and those can be loaded as well.

    This is also a good time to make a backup copy of your saves folder, just in case you need it at some point.  You never know when you'll have a computer problem, or just some in-game glitch that corrupts a save, and this way you wouldn't lose everything.

  • LIIIIIIIIEEEES's avatar
    LIIIIIIIIEEEES
    4 years ago

    ohhh okay, thank you so much. i will definitely rename my saves, i dont know how things got to this point lol

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