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Baron Ollie wrote:.... and how big a hard drive do you have Galak?
.... and how much spare time do you devote to cleaning up all these silly files? Gadzooks. I certainly don't have that kind of time...
Wouldn't it be easier on everyone if you just used subfolders to keep games separate and avoind overwriting?
Not just you, Galak... I mean everyone who likes numbers in gamefiles...
Between the fact that I have 4Gig drives that have been sitting in boxes for more then a year a quite probable bad clusters due to misspent teenage years I am in Galak's court.
If I have one of the 4+ concurrent games go 4-5 days without a turn I have to check the log to make sure I am running that way (lost a TD once by heading away from the endzone about 7 squares farther ahead) and many times I have gotten request for the last game file from people. I have no idea if that was work or home.
By the way, I also sort my Pbem directory by name, so doing a shift+delete every day or so isn't hard.
I have a folder in the Pbem_Tool directory called Games. In there I keep both a zip file and a bbm file of each game that I am playing. When I get a new turn I save the new zip file to that directory. I then open the zip file and save the bbm file to the directory. At this point I will get a warning that I am about to overwrite a file, so I check the date/time and the size of the file. If the new file is bigger and the date is later, I overwrite it. Now I have a new zip and bbm file on my PC. Play my turn, save the game, update the zip and send. No need to change turn numbers or anything else.
What I have started doing is altering the Subject line of the email...
[MBBL2] Horrors 01 vs Orcs 02 (Blitz!)
Much easier to just alter the subject line.
Either way... to each his own. If you have a way that works, do it!
Well, i'm one of those who put numbers to the name, like AAvsBB_xx.pbm.
I guess it's just 'cause i wanna be on the safe side. You never know what might happen and I prefer having backups.
Anyway, i keep every game in a single folder like drive:\games\AAvsBB\
If i'd want to delete it's just one directory to delete.
Reason:''
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
Especially when you get: Orcs_00_AT_Humans_00_FirstHalf_Kickoff.bbm
lol..am I a pbem geek to find that completely hilarious?
I stick with HCvEG (in which I'm getting whupped ), when a new file comes I delete the old unzipped version then unzip the new one and load it up. As long as it's new, I'll play it and save it as HCvEG in my folder, then delet the previous zip and zip the new file. If after unzipping the file I find it's an old turn, I just send back my last turn and say "did you get this?".
I have 2 folders for Pbem, one for the most recent turn and one for the previous. So when I get a new zip I'll save it to folder A (overwriting the previous zip). Then I'll move the unzipped file of my last (outgoing) turn to the backup folder B before I unzip the new (incoming) one in folder A.
Play the turn, save it into folder A then move the pre-turn zip file into the backp before zipping and mailing the turn I've just taken. It's a little convoluted I guess but that way I always have a copy of the latest turn and the previous turn at any given time in case of mishaps.
And multiple renamed files all over the place drives me nuts too!
Reason:''
"Deathwing treats newcomers like sh*t" "...the brain dead Mod.."
Baron Ollie wrote:.... and how big a hard drive do you have Galak?
My laptop that I do my BB stuff on has 320 Gig ... doesn't everyone have that much ...
.... and how much spare time do you devote to cleaning up all these silly files? Gadzooks. I certainly don't have that kind of time...
Very very little ... seconds to be honest. I also use a naming convention such that the files end up in sequential order. A quick click shift-click and I can delete all the older files in seconds.[/quote]
I just wish you anal rententive folks would number the file AFTER you zipped it! It's just such an easy thing. It will overwrite the file when you unzip it. Then if you are still so anal rententive that you need each and every file you can simply move the old file to a different folder before you unzip the new one.
This lets you be a nitpicky freak and lets the rest of us keep some sort of sanity.
), when a new file comes I delete the old unzipped version then unzip the new one and load it up. As long as it's new, I'll play it and save it as HCvEG in my folder, then delet the previous zip and zip the new file. If after unzipping the file I find it's an old turn, I just send back my last turn and say "did you get this?". 
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