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Originally Posted by Stu
I'll comment based on what I understand:
1) I havn't been brave enough to try leaving any of them out.
2) Again, havn't tried it. What I understand is when you delete messages.dat it will recreate it from the current messages, thus getting rid of all those blank messages the game leaves behind when you delete them from in the game.
3) I've been doing it in game. I keep my html files up to date so anything people can't get in the game is on the website
4) Correct. Don't include Page_links or it will overwrite their bookmarks.
5) I upload when I have some extra time, maybe every couple months in game. If you're going to only do it once a year make sure to wait until the offseason is over. The history doesn't click over until you get to next years preseason I think. When you can see the awards in game for the previous year, it's safe to upload. Before then alot of stuff will be left out.
6) Havn't used this option.
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Thanks for the info. Even though it doesn't state this in the game manual, the archive screen seems to suggest that names.dat is only necessary once per season when new players are created (and maybe once after the amateurs are generated?). Also, if you can safely delete messages and the messages.dat, then where is this information stored in order to allow it to be regenerated? I may have to do some testing with the other dat files to see which of them change and which ones don't need included...