[Solved] Can not overwrite old save games [files were R/O]

Lachnummer · Post by **Lachnummer** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:00 am

Hi. It's great that there is still a forum for this gem of a game.

Descent 3 has been sitting on my hard drives since at least 2001, but I've never managed to fully play through it. Now I want to finish it, and have got the old installation up and running again. But I hit a little problem:

Whenever I try to overwrite one of the old existing save games from when I last played in 2003, after I've entered the new description and on \"Overwrite existing file?\" hit \"OK\", I get an in-game message dialog \"Unable to save current game\" with \"OK\" as the only button. Indeed, the game is not saved (the save file does not change).

Luckily, I can save a game to an empty slot, and I can overwrite a \"contemporary\" save game (one that I've recently saved in an empty slot). Only \"old\" save games can not be overwritten. So, my solution is to clear all slots except the one old save that I want to load, load it, save to an empty slot, quit, and clear the remaining old save.

Even the preview image is visible for the new save games, it used to be missing for the old ones (even right after saving them).

Has anyone else seen the overwrite problem?
Or the \"missing preview image\" issue?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:55 am

Perhaps it is a file permissions issue with your operating system and not Descent 3 itself.

Lachnummer · Post by **Lachnummer** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:16 am

Dead on, the read-only bits are set for those files, and only those. :-/

Thanks for pointing this out. *smacks forehead* On Unixy systems, I would have immediately looked for the permissions. On Windows, this issue is so rare (for me) that I didn't even think of it.

Now I've set Explorer to always show the attributes. Not perfect, but at least something.

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:22 am

what did you do burn the save games to cd and just copy them back?? next time rar/zip them before burning so they do not take the CDROM attributes back to the hard drive with them when you restore

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:01 pm

BUBBALOU wrote:what did you do burn the save games to cd and just copy them back?? next time rar/zip them before burning so they do not take the CDROM attributes back to the hard drive with them when you restore

lol.. ya know, I did Just that years ago. Took me weeks to figure out what I'd done wrong. Couldn't figure out why all my files were "read only".

[Solved] Can not overwrite old save games [files were R/O]

[Solved] Can not overwrite old save games [files were R/O]

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