[Scummvm-devel] Windows experience

[Travis Howell]

On 25/01/2012 2:36 AM, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote:
> Thanks for the activity on the Windows save game location. I've seen a lot of
> talk on IRC and a few commits, but could someone summarize the current status
> of the savegame path, including the current thoughts on migration from old to
> new? (To ensure critical ideas don't stay hidden in IRC logs.)

The new saved game defaults are listed in section 6.0 of the README:
Windows Vista/7: \Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ScummVM\Saved games\
Windows 2000/XP: \Documents and Settings\username\Application 
Data\ScummVM\Saved games\
Windows NT4: <windir>\Profiles\username\Application Data\ScummVM\Saved 
games\
Windows 95/98/ME are not effected by the changes.

Automatic migration is difficult, since we can't we can't force the 
migration (i.e. ScummVM might be on USB drive), can't be sure when 
migration is required, and need to avoid migration been triggered 
multiple times. The saved games were previously stored with ScummVM, and 
we can't be sure of UAC status or write permissions. So it is safer to 
copy over files, rather than move files to the new location.

I added a batch file (migration.bat) which will copy any saved games 
found in old default location, to the new default location. An exclusion 
list (migration.txt) is used, to avoid coping over any ScummVM related 
files.

The Windows installer adds an extra 'Saved Games' section of Start Menu 
only under Windows NT4 onwards, which offers short cuts to old and new 
default location for saved games, along with the migration script.

So people need to manually choose to migrate their saved games at this 
stage, but the extra Start Menu items should make sure people can still 
locate where there saved games are located.