Lost Career Histories

bherman1 · 04-07-2003, 09:57 PM

I recently restored a backed-up league and, upon doing so, lost all players' career histories. Where are they? What can I do? I do have a slightly older back-up intact. Could anyone ID the file I might copy over to my existing league to get the histories back? And if so, are you sure it will not write over any game play I've done since restoring the back-up?

And oh yeah, the Yearly Almanacs are gone, too.

Scott Vibert · 04-08-2003, 09:32 AM

The backup feature does not save a copy of the thousands of files that are the player histories and almanac files. A way to back-up all of these files is to simply zip up the league folder you are using, it will be a bigger file then the regular backup file, but you won't lose all the histories.

You can safely copy all the p###.txt files from the news.../players directory and the almanac files. As long as you don't overwrite a .dat file you won't lose the stats... however you would lose any player history entries since restoring the backup.

JimiP · 05-05-2004, 03:29 PM

I have just finished a season (year #5) and switched it over to OOTP6 - what LO !...allthe player historied are gone, championships etc.
Did not open froma back up just used the OOTP import and tho allplayers did appear theyhave no league history on their cards ???
thats not very nice

gmo · 05-05-2004, 05:59 PM

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Originally posted by JimiP
I have just finished a season (year #5) and switched it over to OOTP6 - what LO !...allthe player historied are gone, championships etc.
Did not open froma back up just used the OOTP import and tho allplayers did appear theyhave no league history on their cards ???
thats not very nice

Not certain, but sounds like you are not seeing your almanacs from when the league was in OOTP5. You must manually copy the .alm folders from the V5 almanac folder in the .lg folder to the V6 almanac folder in that new .lg folder.

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bherman1 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Lost Career Histories I recently restored a backed-up league and, upon doing so, lost all players' career histories. Where are they? What can I do? I do have a slightly older back-up intact. Could anyone ID the file I might copy over to my existing league to get the histories back? And if so, are you sure it will not write over any game play I've done since restoring the back-up? And oh yeah, the Yearly Almanacs are gone, too. Last edited by bherman1; 04-07-2003 at 10:00 PM.

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JimiP Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Western NY State Posts: 193 Thanks: 7 Thanked 1x in 1 post	I have just finished a season (year #5) and switched it over to OOTP6 - what LO !...allthe player historied are gone, championships etc. Did not open froma back up just used the OOTP import and tho allplayers did appear theyhave no league history on their cards ??? thats not very nice __________________ Love, Peace & Chicken Grease, chef jimiP http://www.blues411.com

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04-08-2003, 09:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
Scott Vibert Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: My Computer Posts: 7,551 Thanks: 72 Thanked 48x in 30 posts	The backup feature does not save a copy of the thousands of files that are the player histories and almanac files. A way to back-up all of these files is to simply zip up the league folder you are using, it will be a bigger file then the regular backup file, but you won't lose all the histories. You can safely copy all the p###.txt files from the news.../players directory and the almanac files. As long as you don't overwrite a .dat file you won't lose the stats... however you would lose any player history entries since restoring the backup.