Using OneDrive

@ShadowBramble  I don't use OneDrive in general but did see this when I was testing its functions a few months ago.  This is normal behavior, at least some of the time: OneDrive finds two files with the same name that are not actually identical and renames one of them.  The only reliable ways around this would be to manually delete some files, before playing or after; or to stop OneDrive from syncing some of your data.  I don't know of a setting that explicitly says "replace the older file with a newer one"; OneDrive already does that a lot of the time.

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@puzzlezaddict wrote:

@ShadowBramble  I don't use OneDrive in general but did see this when I was testing its functions a few months ago.  This is normal behavior, at least some of the time: OneDrive finds two files with the same name that are not actually identical and renames one of them.  The only reliable ways around this would be to manually delete some files, before playing or after; or to stop OneDrive from syncing some of your data.  I don't know of a setting that explicitly says "replace the older file with a newer one"; OneDrive already does that a lot of the time.

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Thank you for your help. I just delete the new duplicate version copy of the file it creates when I load up the other laptop after gaming as it’s just a previous .VER file rather than the save. Is it okay to use OneDrive? 

thanks. 

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@puzzlezaddict wrote:

@ShadowBramble  It's fine to use OneDrive if you understand how it works.  It sounds like you do, so just pay attention to how much free storage you have there and make sure to delete only the correct files.

I would still suggest having a separate backup of your saves, perhaps on an external drive of some kind, in case the OneDrive files get corrupted.  That's highly unusual, but I've seen it happen multiple times on this forum, and you don't want to be the person that gets stuck with corrupt files and no backups.

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Thank you. Yes I think I do understand OneDrive, I just wanted to make sure that the .VER copy it makes occasionally is safe to delete.

The copy wasn’t there whilst playing the game on the PC before and it seems to only create a duplicate every now and again after switching between devices.

I think what happens is that I play a game on one device. This has the .SAVE file and .VER file. Then I close the game and load my other device to work and I get a notification from OneDrive saying we’ve made a duplicate for the .VER file as it didn’t match or something so I delete the .VER copy duplicate for this device as that copy wasn’t there after exiting the game on my other device, so it must be redundant. I hope that’s okay to do.

I will continue to make back ups of my save as advised.

Thanks for your help. 

@ShadowBramble  The files that end in .verx are always backups of the main save, so they're always safe to delete when your main save is working fine.  I wouldn't suggest deleting all the .verx files all the time, as you might decide to revert to a recent backup for one reason or another.  But deleting some of them some of the time is totally fine.  The most you'll lose is one or two of five automatic backups, and then you'll still have others you can use instead should the need arise.

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@puzzlezaddict wrote:

@ShadowBramble  The files that end in .verx are always backups of the main save, so they're always safe to delete when your main save is working fine.  I wouldn't suggest deleting all the .verx files all the time, as you might decide to revert to a recent backup for one reason or another.  But deleting some of them some of the time is totally fine.  The most you'll lose is one or two of five automatic backups, and then you'll still have others you can use instead should the need arise.

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Thank you, that’s good to know. It was just the .COPY of the .VER file that I deleted so the .VER is still there. Thanks for your help.