noobax Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 HELP. When I started playing again after a month, my old save files were gone. I started a new game and got along great. Suddenly today, when I played, MY OLD SAVE FILES REAPPEARED AND MY NEW SAVE FILES GONE OFF TO GOD KNOWS WHERE. HELP. ASAP. THANKS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosisab Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 HELP. When I started playing again after a month, my old save files were gone. I started a new game and got along great. Suddenly today, when I played, MY OLD SAVE FILES REAPPEARED AND MY NEW SAVE FILES GONE OFF TO GOD KNOWS WHERE. HELP. ASAP. THANKS.How are we supposed to do it? maybe you need cleric's service... or a necromancer, i fear. The windows search function is your better bet now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circuitous Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 More likely, you were signed in to Games for Windows Live, then you weren't when you reisntalled, and now you are. Look at your most recent saves. Remember the names. Navigate to My Documents\My Games\Fallout 3\Saves if the current saves are visible here, you're off to a good start. If they're not, we'll get to that in a second. Look for a folder with your username in it. Or a username someone else might've used. Really, any folder. Open it up and you should see all those old saves you mysteriously lost. When logged in to Windows Live, Fallout 3 creates a new folder for your account to stash save games in, this way you log in and have all your saves! Brilliant, unless you're the only one using it and GFWL is a buggy piece of ... I'm on a tangent, sorry. Basically, copy the saves from this folder, paste them in the other folder, and live like there's no tomorrow. If your current saves weren't visible in the \Saves\ folder, then you probably noticed that they were your old saves. Open up whatever named folder is also in this folder, and copy the saves from there into the \Saves\ folder, basically the opposite of what we did above. Ta-da! Also, if the best advice you can give is "I have no idea, trying using Windows Search" you shouldn't offer an answer, because that thing's useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noobax Posted March 17, 2009 Author Share Posted March 17, 2009 Holy poo! Thanks alot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosisab Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 I must atone for my thougts, MS and it's "applications" may be IT educative... someway :) Now I know if something just disappears and yet more mysteriously, re-appears sometime afterward, may not be Voodoo. Although the "how" WLG got into my system may yet be a mystery. PS: To Circuitous. No, The search function is not useless, it is the way most people finds files in their disks. Way better learning how to do things than depending on others all the time. But you have a point, I should know someone would come with a cockbook's recipe for something that seemed mysterious only to me.Yet, the way WLG seems to work forces the knowhow of it's mechanics and the search would be less than useful. I did learn something today, for it you have my kudos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circuitous Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Finding files is one thing, figuring out why they've been hidden from you is another entirely. I'm just glad I was right, though, haha. It'd be a pretty messed up bug if it wasn't that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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