Tidy savegames?

[dogscoff]

Because I save at least once per map, my savegame list is getting kind of full. Later I'll delete a bunch of the older ones from the last campaign I did, but it occurred to me that some function to do it automatically would be nice. Some good options would be:

-Delete all save files from a given campaign.
-Delete all save files more than X days old. (Have an option to do this automatically every time you start the game.)
-Only keep the X most recent unprotected save files, (Have an option to do this automatically every time you start the game.)
-Protect save file (Make the file immune from automatic "tidying")

[Nicolas]

Good idea but are you skilled enough to do it?
Personally i cant do that

[allefant]

Another option I'd like: Delete all manual savegames. I.e., keep all the auto-saves on the start of a szenario (in case I need to go back), and keep all the replays - but remove everything else.

[dogscoff]

Allefant: Agreed, good idea.

but are you skilled enough to do it?

Nope. That's why I posted a suggestion rather than a patch.

[allefant]

Well, such a patch would be only a few lines if hacked in: https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/index ... em_id=4265

But then, to do it proplerly would mean extending the GUI code to have multiple selection, and it also absolutely requires some help text to be displayed, which I couldn't figure out how to do as well.

[HaJo]

my savegame list is getting kind of full.
-Only keep the X most recent unprotected save files,

Maybe just a little script that moves all files matching "*Turn_*"
to another directory, say saves-old, where they can be archived/deleted ?

[fmunoz]

You can try to use the CLI power!!!

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rm -i *Turn*

even on impaired systems (i.e. win) you could use "del *Turn*" (you can put it in a .BAT file if you are really lazy and do soooo many saves)

[pacho]

Great idea, I would use this controls because I have many, many saves