where o' where are my saved games going?

[Maj. Frogbottom]

I had a game crash and I wanted to submit my save game and log but my saves folder is empty. When I start and load the saved game however it loads so something must be somewhere! I am running Vista and am not quite used to it yet so that probably is the problem, any ideas or do I need to have you come over and look at my hard drive for me? I know you guys get lots of vacations how about some time in Illinois, its not frozen solid yet.

[Rafiki]

I've heard mentioned that Vista sometimes seems to make your directories "disappear" and render difficult (impossible?) to find, so I think you're right in blaming Vista.

However, I don't have any experience with Vista myself, so I can't offer any advice on how to fix it.

[richfed]

If you are using Vista, disable User Account Control via Control Panel. Reboot. Your game saves will magically appear!!

[Maj. Frogbottom]

If you are using Vista, disable User Account Control via Control Panel. Reboot. Your game saves will magically appear!!
22 Hours Ago 22:56

Very bad idea all kinds of problems started. Couldn't even start the game after doing that. Not to mention some of my other background programs starting to go flaky

[richfed]

That shouldn't be ... the "feature" [more annoying than anything else] is made to be able to turn on or off.

My experience has been exactly the opposite to yours Major. Many programs and features work better without UAC. I don't know.

[Maj. Frogbottom]

Perhaps the problem is that this computer has multiple accounts set up on it? I don't know either. and I appreciate your trying to help, but I still couldn't see the save games and acw.exe wouldn't run in the standard account I normally use. I did find out however that in the Admin account the .exe ran fine. I,m not sure I understand, let me take that back, I am totally mystified why Microsoft thought this was somehow helpful.

[Henry D.]

I've heard mentioned that Vista sometimes seems to make your directories "disappear" and render difficult (impossible?) to find, so I think you're right in blaming Vista.

However, I don't have any experience with Vista myself, so I can't offer any advice on how to fix it.

Hm, You heard that from me, didn't You?

That's right, but thanks to richfed I could disable the romulan cloaking device...

I'm the only user account on my machine, though...

However, I have an all new problem, too:

When I try to zip an entire folder with winzip, the zip.file disappears instantly... Single files or all files in one folder zipped into the same zip-file works just fine, though...

Vista remains to be a fountain of never-ending bewilderment to me...

Regards, Henry

[Rafiki]

Hm You heard that from me, didn't You?

Indeed

(I just didn't see any reasons for "outing" you for it )

[Henry D.]

Hm, You heard that from me, didn't You?

That's right, but thanks to richfed I could disable the romulan cloaking device...

I'm the only user account on my machine, though...

However, I have an all new problem, too:

When I try to zip an entire folder with winzip, the zip.file disappears instantly... Single files or all files in one folder zipped into the same zip-file works just fine, though...

Vista remains to be a fountain of never-ending bewilderment to me...

Regards, Henry

Ehh, I just wanted to send a "multi-file"-zip which I had created earlier, and it is gone, too. When trying to zip the files again, the new zip doesn't show up in the save directory either... leure:

I give up, I'm sure Vista is already laughing about me behind my back...

Regards, Henry (who is dearly missing XP)