In case you missed it: Experimental branch returning next week

[Wolfgang]

The experimental branch will return next week containing bugfixes (mostly multiplayer related) and optimisation. Video here:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z3UtGdftZbc
Back up your saves before going into experimental if you decide to go there.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

Yes and even if at this round (next week) changes will be mostly for multiplayer.... I'm pretty sure that they'll add more and more as time go

[Kage Goomba]

Betting you a ton of sloops that people won't go to the QA Site like they where told.
;)

[curtyuiop]

Thanks Wolfgang.

[The Pitts]

This gave me a good chuckle. My saves would automatically be backed up if only they'd stored them somewhere more sensible. AppData\local is full of junk that I don't want to backup, like browser caches, whereas Documents I back up incrementally to a secondary drive twice every day.

[Cheesecake]

Originally posted by The Pitts:

This gave me a good chuckle. My saves would automatically be backed up if only they'd stored them somewhere more sensible. AppData\local is full of junk that I don't want to backup, like browser caches, whereas Documents I back up incrementally to a secondary drive twice every day.

Manual copy doesnt work for you?

[Sonic Titan]

Originally posted by The Pitts:

This gave me a good chuckle. My saves would automatically be backed up if only they'd stored them somewhere more sensible. AppData\local is full of junk that I don't want to backup, like browser caches, whereas Documents I back up incrementally to a secondary drive twice every day.

Why don't you just backup the folder containing the saves, then?

[The Pitts]

I do now that I know where they are, but should I really have to dig around amongst the AppData and Program Files folders to find things that might need backing up incrementally? Valve/Steam is just as bad, creating its own userdata directory under the 32-bit Program Files directory is just foul. Besides, I merely said it gave me a chuckle - I have a multi-tier backup strategy and at least one of those backups would enable me to restore from AppData, but...

[NashEquil]

Originally posted by The Pitts:

I do now that I know where they are, but should I really have to dig around amongst the AppData and Program Files folders to find things that might need backing up incrementally? Valve/Steam is just as bad, creating its own userdata directory under the 32-bit Program Files directory is just foul. Besides, I merely said it gave me a chuckle - I have a multi-tier backup strategy and at least one of those backups would enable me to restore from AppData, but...

It took you longer to type this drivel than it would have taken you to copy the folder.

[The Pitts]

YMMV but a) I'm a touch typist so not much time at all and b) whilst it might serve for the purposes of using the experimental beta manually copying a directory is not the kind of backup I'm interested in - I prefer to create an incremental backup of everything that I'm likely to view as useful without needing to hunt through every location on every drive whilst ignoring/eliminating caches, temporary files etc. Drivel to you, basic data security to me.

[SwampMonkey]

Originally posted by The Pitts:

This gave me a good chuckle. My saves would automatically be backed up if only they'd stored them somewhere more sensible. AppData\local is full of junk that I don't want to backup, like browser caches, whereas Documents I back up incrementally to a secondary drive twice every day.

Originally posted by The Pitts:

YMMV but a) I'm a touch typist so not much time at all and b) whilst it might serve for the purposes of using the experimental beta manually copying a directory is not the kind of backup I'm interested in - I prefer to create an incremental backup of everything that I'm likely to view as useful without needing to hunt through every location on every drive whilst ignoring/eliminating caches, temporary files etc. Drivel to you, basic data security to me.

Nope still drivel, don't see how it relates to "basic data security" and im sure your pron collection does not need to be backed up twice a day

[Jack-o-Lantern]

To be precise, backup before using experimental doesn't mean you need to backup save folder at each hour...

You need to do that just once....
All is needed is just a ctrl-c and ctrl-v just once

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Jack-o-Lantern:

To be precise, backup before using experimental doesn't mean you need to backup save folder at each hour...

You need to do that just once....
All is needed is just a ctrl-c and ctrl-v just once

Yep - this.

Not sure why he felt it was necessary to grand stand for something so trivial.

[The Pitts]

Apologies then, it wasn't my intention to grandstand for anything, just to comment on something that it turns out obviously only bugs me. Too late to change it anyway, so...

I'll get me coat.