can't load save file. anti-save scumming feature?

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  • unbuttered_toast
    Rookie
    • May 2010
    • 3

    can't load save file. anti-save scumming feature?

    Hello everyone,

    I've a half-elf mage named Prestolist, but his save file won't load. Instead it sits there in a forlorn, grayer font than usual.

    My Macbook's hard drive recently quit on me (absolutely not my fault and not the result of violence), and in the course of restoring the system, I copied up-to-date backups of my Angband files over to the new drive. It's occurred to me that reloading a file from a backup probably looks very like reloading a file from a dead character.

    Can anyone tell me how to make the file load? He's not dead (yet), and he just found a staff of *Destruction*, somewhere before level 5, even, so you know the RNG likes him.
  • Nick
    Vanilla maintainer
    • Apr 2007
    • 9647

    #2
    It may be that the file has somehow become the wrong type - the OSX port requires a specific file type. I use a utility called Quick Change; the file needs to be Type SAVE and Creator A271.

    Or it may be another problem...
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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    • Pete Mack
      Prophet
      • Apr 2007
      • 6883

      #3
      You can open untyped files with "Import" rather than "Open"

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      • Nick
        Vanilla maintainer
        • Apr 2007
        • 9647

        #4
        Thanks Pete - 6 months and I'm still an OSX n00b...
        One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
        In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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        • unbuttered_toast
          Rookie
          • May 2010
          • 3

          #5
          I feel like I should have thought to try Importing it. Thanks for replying first Nick

          Thanks both of you. It looks like the type information did get lost when I moved it to the other system.

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