I'm glad to see this tool is still popular today! If there is anything I can do to bring it up to modern expections, let me know in a reply to this post and I'll see what I can do. Also slightly shocked it's not open-sourced by myself years ago :P I might just rewrite it in modern day WPF and open-source that.
If this is supposed to make a backup on file change for the game save file that functionality is not working for me on Steam, Win10. I can alt-tab, manually refresh via right click and a backup is made, but it is not firing on file change when the game saves.
Which version of the game is everyone using? GOG probably works if you set a custom path. As for Steam version not working, from what I recall, this can be the case when you turned it into... well, a non-steam version. Not pointing any fingers, could also be related to custom file paths :)
I can test this, but I think DD2 Save Manager (the successor to this) should also work for DD1.
Begging you to do this for DD2. I wanna play it at launch but the single save thing is excruciating, so a wait would definitely be more than fine. You were a literal life saver for DD1.
DD2 is in dire need of a save manager (I can't believe they did this crap again.) This mod saved my sanity in DD1... I don't have much left so I need your help to save what little I have remaining....
Is there anything else similar to this that does "Auto Saves" in intervals or every a pre-specified time? like with a preset of gamer's choice every 10 mins or 15 or 20 to auto save...?
So I've noticed some odd behaviour. Occasionally, instead of overwriting the relevant backup when saving in game, it just creates a new backup, lacking the name i assigned to give clear differentiation. sometimes it will even do this up to 2 or 3 times in a row, and while i thankfully know which save it is since the new backups relate to the file i was just playing on, it's a bit worrisome as there was even a case where a new file was created, then it got deleted and the original file was overwritten with the latest save. so thankfully nothing was lost in that case, but i don't want to have cluttering "duplicate" saves hanging about, but then im afraid that if i delete the old saves, the alternate up-to-date save will delete itself in the process of attempting to overwrite the file i deleted.
First mod or tool I'm going to have to rate down. I'm sure it's fine for people who want to juggle tonnes of busywork, but I wanted one, simple, function:
Backing up my saves automatically. That's what I think of when I think a save manager. Given that it apparently overwrites saves, and given DDDA's behaviour while writing to save, it seemed a coin-toss whether or not to even trust this. Let alone the fact that the purpose of backing up anything - having an extra copy in case bad things happen, as is known to be the case with DDDA - Is defeated when the program you're trying to use to back things up is
- Cumbersome - Relies on user monitoring - Does not actually back things up - Basically is just the in-game save engine with extra steps.
It takes a long time to make tools like this, and I'm grateful to you, author; I'm sure it's helped plenty of people, and I can especially see how it'd help speedrunners, who probably aren't that concerned about data loss. But for my purposes, for purposes of backing up and double-backing-up saves, it's basically useless.
This program is 7+ years old and has been updated only once...
-Your post is cumbersome. -It doesn't rely on user monitoring but application monitoring... -It actually does back up saves... it backs up saves that would have usually been overwritten... -Not is not basically an in-game save engine because it is not implemented inside the game.
So clearly the problem is you and not the tool. The tool does exactly what it does in the description. You have your own expectations of double backing up saves, so you just downvote a tool because it does not do what YOU want. This is called KAREN behavior.
while the tool works fine for me, it does seem like the tool is not working that reliably for others... also to the person saying OP has a karen like behavior: OP wasn't entitled at all (even acknowledge that the tool may work for others and still grateful for the author for making the tool in the first place), they even pointed out the features that can be improved on/added for better UX. though, i may be biased since my first modding experience were skyrim se and bethesda games.
TL;DR Tool works fine for me and the ppl calling OP aggressive or Karen are being rude as OP's complaints are rather valid i'd say.
ok so idk whats going on but when it ask me to pick a user, i see my account, my best friends account and my lil bros, all witch have been logged in on my pc but i also see like 6 unknowns and a few i never seen before....
It took me some trial and error to figure out the way to use this to create backups: alt-tabbing after a save, refreshing the active file, renaming the previous one. Some fool-proof directions in the description might help out new users.
didnt work for me. im using steam version as i got the game cheap during summer sale. It doesnt auto save or auto backup save until you alt tab out from game and click 'refresh' so it make a backup. I cant go out of the game each time. hope can get this fix. thanks. 😮
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I can alt-tab, manually refresh via right click and a backup is made, but it is not firing on file change when the game saves.
I can test this, but I think DD2 Save Manager (the successor to this) should also work for DD1.
DD2 is in dire need of a save manager (I can't believe they did this crap again.) This mod saved my sanity in DD1... I don't have much left so I need your help to save what little I have remaining....
HELP US, LENNARDF1989! YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!
Backing up my saves automatically. That's what I think of when I think a save manager.
Given that it apparently overwrites saves, and given DDDA's behaviour while writing to save, it seemed a coin-toss whether or not to even trust this.
Let alone the fact that the purpose of backing up anything - having an extra copy in case bad things happen, as is known to be the case with DDDA -
Is defeated when the program you're trying to use to back things up is
- Cumbersome
- Relies on user monitoring
- Does not actually back things up
- Basically is just the in-game save engine with extra steps.
It takes a long time to make tools like this, and I'm grateful to you, author; I'm sure it's helped plenty of people, and I can especially see how it'd help speedrunners, who probably aren't that concerned about data loss. But for my purposes, for purposes of backing up and double-backing-up saves, it's basically useless.
-Your post is cumbersome.
-It doesn't rely on user monitoring but application monitoring...
-It actually does back up saves... it backs up saves that would have usually been overwritten...
-Not is not basically an in-game save engine because it is not implemented inside the game.
So clearly the problem is you and not the tool.
The tool does exactly what it does in the description.
You have your own expectations of double backing up saves, so you just downvote a tool because it does not do what YOU want.
This is called KAREN behavior.
TL;DR
Tool works fine for me and the ppl calling OP aggressive or Karen are being rude as OP's complaints are rather valid i'd say.