Hello everyone! I have just returned after a year break (carpal tunal from too much flying lol). I got a new computer with Windows 11 on it and can finally run Odyssey. Before I just played Horizons. I have the game installed via Steam and have been playing, but I need to move some information over before installing EDDiscovery (linked to EDSM). I am primarily an explorer and like to keep track of my travels on EDSM. I have read I need to find my visited stars log. I am not seeing it anywhere. What I have is log files for each time I have logged in on Odyssey since I installed on this computer. Is that what I need to move from my old PC to the new? Also, are there seperate logs for Odyssey and Horizons?
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Newcomer / Intro Returning Player Moving Logs
- Thread starter CMDR Redmen
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You'll want to back up your bindings, journals, and visited stars cache
Journals are here:
C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous
Bindings are here:
C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings
Visited Stars are here:
C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\[SOME_NUMBERED_FOLDER]
Journals are here:
C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous
Bindings are here:
C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings
Visited Stars are here:
C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\[SOME_NUMBERED_FOLDER]
Ok, I found the Journals where you said they would be. They appear to be the same as in the SteamApps folder. I can not find the other two though. I don't have an AppData folder.
UPDATE
I couldn't find the second two file locations on my old computer either. Also, to clarify the logs, there are the same logs with different file names in the "Product" file within the SteamApps/Elite Dangerous file. Will they need to be moved?
I couldn't find the second two file locations on my old computer either. Also, to clarify the logs, there are the same logs with different file names in the "Product" file within the SteamApps/Elite Dangerous file. Will they need to be moved?
The Appdata folder may be hidden, but Windows won’t operate without it, so it is there. Are you running as Administrator?
I found it. It was hidden.
If I copy over the old Star cache, is there a way to combine it with the new one?
Now that I don't know. I think the "numbered folder" corresponds in some way to the CMDR. I have more than one CMDR so I have more than one of those folders.
My guess is that you could dump them all into the currently active folder and it would be ok. Then again, it might completely mess things up. So be ready to undo it if so.
Gotcha. Thanks for your help Codger!