Windows 7 to Windows 10: Having trouble loading saved Ren'Py games

[Renzon]

Hey all. I'm wondering if someone knows how to help me fix a problem that's plaguing nearly every Ren'Py game I've downloaded.

The games load fine. My issue is the saves don't show up to load. I played these games on my Win7 pc, but my fan failed and now I'm using my laptop which is Win10. Some games, I don't remember which, had saves that load fine. For a few games I tried, the placement of the saves showed up correctly on the save/load pages they're supposed to. I think that has something to do with the date they were saved. The saves that came up were closer to the date I launched the updated version, but there rest don't show up.

I tried changing the compatibility on the .exe to windows 7 to see if that worked, but it doesn't work. I copied the old save files to the current version's save directory and the save/load page location came up correctly. I launched the previous Become A Rock Star 0.55. The saves don't show up, but the last saves I made were on page 15. I copied the newest save files in that folder to the 0.60 save folder and launched 0.60. Page 15 comes up, but the saves aren't there.

I have a number of different routes for that game and I'd rather not go through the entire thing again. If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

[polywog]

are you putting the saves in the proper locations?

C:/user/Appdata/Roaming/RenPy

 

[M$hot]

Theoretically Windows 7 should store saves in C:/Users/*user*/AppData/Roaming/RenPy/*game*/ and Windows 10 stores them in C:/Users/*user*/AppData/Roaming/RenPy/*game*/
The *word* denote something for you to fill in, your user profile for *user* and the game you want to grab the saves from in *game*

What I'm thinking is that perhaps since you launch the game 'clean' on a new OS, it's making a new folder under the same name where it stores your saves? So perhaps if you can find the identical folder that was created for your Windows 7 playthough and copy/paste the saves to the newly created folder? Because to the best of my knowledge, the path is exactly the same. You can see here that I have 3 save folders for 1 game. Plus the path (minus the name, you don't need to know that)

Hope this helps, if not, someone smarter will be by to help I'm sure.

 

[Renzon]

I think I see the issue. I have the games on an external drive and since I didn't know to get the saves from the AppData location, the saves themselves in the save folder aren't worth much.

Thanks you two.

 

[SirWilliam]

Hey all. I'm wondering if someone knows how to help me fix a problem that's plaguing nearly every Ren'Py game I've downloaded.

The games load fine. My issue is the saves don't show up to load. I played these games on my Win7 pc, but my fan failed and now I'm using my laptop which is Win10. Some games, I don't remember which, had saves that load fine. For a few games I tried, the placement of the saves showed up correctly on the save/load pages they're supposed to. I think that has something to do with the date they were saved. The saves that came up were closer to the date I launched the updated version, but there rest don't show up.

I tried changing the compatibility on the .exe to windows 7 to see if that worked, but it doesn't work. I copied the old save files to the current version's save directory and the save/load page location came up correctly. I launched the previous Become A Rock Star 0.55. The saves don't show up, but the last saves I made were on page 15. I copied the newest save files in that folder to the 0.60 save folder and launched 0.60. Page 15 comes up, but the saves aren't there.

I have a number of different routes for that game and I'd rather not go through the entire thing again. If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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