1.2.0p5 FreeBSD question re: savefiles

[jcd748]

I had the earlier public pre-release downloaded, with a few characters made. I just deleted the old p3 installation directory, and created one for p5. I then tried to create a character using one of my standard names, and ADOM told me that name was in use. However, the list of saved games does not include any of the characters I made before (version check, I assume), there doesn't appear to be a way to delete the savefiles in-game, and I can't find any information on where these are now stored.

Does anyone know where these are stored, so I can delete the earlier savefiles?

[Stingray1]

the savefiles in windows xp is in documents and settings/yourusername/Local Settings/Application Data/ADOM/adom_dat/savedg

[SirTheta]

Well, FreeBSD layout is nothing like Windows, it is basically UNIX-like though...do you have a /home/<user> directory? The documentation is a bit confusing, but I that's probably because I haven't used FreeBSD. If you have a /home/<user> dir, it is likely in /home/<user>/.adom.data. I'm not sure how ADOM determines the home directory--you could check the contents of the variable $HOME, perhaps; it could be in $HOME/.adom.data. savedg is the dir under .adom.data that contains your savefiles.

Of course, the directory name may be slightly different under FreeBSD..should contain 'adom', though.

[Alucard]

A character (save game) name of that name probably already exists. p5 is doing the smart thing by not crashing on it like previous prereleases, but it won't load saves from other prereleases either. Delete them from ~/.adom.data/savedg/.

[szopin]

A character (save game) name of that name probably already exists. p5 is doing the smart thing by not crashing on it like previous prereleases, but it won't load saves from other prereleases either. Delete them from ~/.adom.data/savedg/.

If ~ is /home/user I totally feel you. Best part about latest versions they don't crash with saves from older versions. Try them

[jcd748]

That did the trick - thanks, all!