Is there a good third party save manager?

[Dewi Morgan]

With saves borked ingame at the moment, can anyone recommend any third party save managers?

[NZ.Zero]

Escrito originalmente por Krash Megiddo:

Useless info to OP. He wants a commercial app that has a "BACKUP NMS SAVE FILES" button

Which is literally what Goatfungus save editor has. You know Gotfungus? ...,, the standard editor everyone uses, which you were singing the priases of earlier this week and recommending that we dont forget to reward the dev for his efforts.

[Dewi Morgan]

Escrito originalmente por Cross Scanty:

Use OneDrive with the help of SymLink[... or ...]built-in File History of Windows.

That's some good out-of-the-box thinking! And also works with DropBox, and other similar solutions.

As you point out, both have their respective shortcomings, but both would work; and the more general theme of viewing it as a "generic backup problem" rather than a "application-specific problem" feels like a good angle to look at the problem.

Escrito originalmente por NZ.Zer0:

Goatfungus save editor is great - lets you back up the save file to a json file or 'save as' between slots. (Dont think it lets you manage save names yet but you can bet it will add that soon to if it doesnt, the dev is great).

I use it already for moving ships I want to keep to the last slot - I didn't realize it had a backup option! :)

But that still feels like a manual save; it's just a click, rather than a drag-drop in file manager. I'd still need to remember to alt-tab out of the game and manually back the thing up.

Save names are a good point, though. Perhaps the nicest approach would be a system to automatically create a new, named backup of a save whenever I change the save's name, and perhaps also whenever I hit a hotkey. That would give something similar to manual saves and quicksaves in other games.

And since save names are new in 4.0, that's likely not created yet, so it wouldn't be reinventing the wheel to write it.

[Krash Megiddo]

Escrito originalmente por NZ.Zer0:

Escrito originalmente por Krash Megiddo:

Useless info to OP. He wants a commercial app that has a "BACKUP NMS SAVE FILES" button

Which is literally what Goatfungus save editor has. You know Gotfungus? ...,, the standard editor everyone uses, which you were singing the priases of earlier this week and recommending that we dont forget to reward the dev for his efforts.

If it has a "backup save files" button then great, but like I said, its not simple or easy to install. It takes a certain amount of backbone to install the correct version of Java and override the warnings, blah blah blah its been awhile since I installed it.

[I Am Groot]

Escrito originalmente por Dewi Morgan:

Escrito originalmente por Cross Scanty:

Use OneDrive with the help of SymLink[... or ...]built-in File History of Windows.

That's some good out-of-the-box thinking! And also works with DropBox, and other similar solutions.

As you point out, both have their respective shortcomings, but both would work; and the more general theme of viewing it as a "generic backup problem" rather than a "application-specific problem" feels like a good angle to look at the problem.

Escrito originalmente por NZ.Zer0:

Goatfungus save editor is great - lets you back up the save file to a json file or 'save as' between slots. (Dont think it lets you manage save names yet but you can bet it will add that soon to if it doesnt, the dev is great).

I use it already for moving ships I want to keep to the last slot - I didn't realize it had a backup option! :)

But that still feels like a manual save; it's just a click, rather than a drag-drop in file manager. I'd still need to remember to alt-tab out of the game and manually back the thing up.

Save names are a good point, though. Perhaps the nicest approach would be a system to automatically create a new, named backup of a save whenever I change the save's name, and perhaps also whenever I hit a hotkey. That would give something similar to manual saves and quicksaves in other games.

And since save names are new in 4.0, that's likely not created yet, so it wouldn't be reinventing the wheel to write it.

I don't think DropBox or other like GGDrive will works, they don't link the virtual location like OneDrive does.

[Geldric™]

Look no further than GameSave Manager
https://www.gamesave-manager.com/

Edit: and yes, NMS is supported