A couple of months back, I removed Steam from my system. Before removal, I *thought* I had backed up my journal logs on my main account, which had resided under Steam's folder structure.
I was wrong.
While uploading to Elite Galaxy Online, I noticed all data prior to Steam removal was missing, after upload. Only the alt account, and what little the main account had done, was present under C:\Users\SillyDog\Saved Games\Frontier Developments.
I goofed when moving the files. I also had to do a rebuild, and that wiped what was left on the HDD. It was a cleaner, better computer, all-around. Fresh builds are wonderful, in that respect.
But: Goodbye, to most of my exploration records, that had been captured by the Journal API from my main account.
So, double-check your file location pointers. And double-double check *where* your offline backups are pointed to capture *from*. I forgot to remember where mine were. Learn from my mistakes.
Now, if only a certain game company were to do a SQL search on a commander's exploration data, for maybe a fee...
I was wrong.
While uploading to Elite Galaxy Online, I noticed all data prior to Steam removal was missing, after upload. Only the alt account, and what little the main account had done, was present under C:\Users\SillyDog\Saved Games\Frontier Developments.
I goofed when moving the files. I also had to do a rebuild, and that wiped what was left on the HDD. It was a cleaner, better computer, all-around. Fresh builds are wonderful, in that respect.
But: Goodbye, to most of my exploration records, that had been captured by the Journal API from my main account.
So, double-check your file location pointers. And double-double check *where* your offline backups are pointed to capture *from*. I forgot to remember where mine were. Learn from my mistakes.
Now, if only a certain game company were to do a SQL search on a commander's exploration data, for maybe a fee...
