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SumGai
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Need help transferring save data

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I tried transferring Battle for Wesnoth onto an external hard drive so that I could play it no a more powerful computer, but the save data did not transfer with it.

How do I transfer my saves from one machine to another?
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Re: Need help transferring save data

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You need to find your userdata folder first. What operating system are you on?
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Re: Need help transferring save data

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I am going from an Windows XP to a Windows 7.
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Re: Need help transferring save data

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Okay on windows check in
My Documents\My Games\
You should see a wesnoth folder. That contains all your add-ons, saves, replays, preferences, and what not.
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Re: Need help transferring save data

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All right I've got the folder, it's exactly where you said it was on the Windows XP machine, thank you.

Just mentioning, dropping it in mygames on the windows 7 computer did not work. Eventually I tracked down a folder called userdata and copied the contents into there.


Thank you very much for helping me out. I appreciate it.
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Re: Need help transferring save data

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Where are the save files on a Mac? - OSX 10.5.8 - Wesnoth 1.9.0

I thought I knew where all that stuff was kept; I've spent 20 minutes looking in every place I could think of!! Uggghh...
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Re: Need help transferring save data

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Star Gazer wrote:Where are the save files on a Mac? - OSX 10.5.8 - Wesnoth 1.9.0
See: http://wiki.wesnoth.org/EditingWesnoth#Mac_OS_X_2
If it doesn't answer your question, please let us know.
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Re: Need help transferring save data

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~/Library/Application Support/Wesnoth_1.9/saves/
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Re: Need help transferring save data

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I'm trying to transfer saves to a Mac OS X, and can't see any folder called Wesnoth_1.8 in Application Support.
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Wrong library. Look at the above post. "~" denotes the Home folder.
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thanks.
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