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Help! My MM 6 Save Files Are Corrupted!
11/22/2013, 15:31:56

    Guinn Berger writes:

    My game played fine until a recent Windows update, then the background music started to sound choppy, and the game started to experience random crashes. Now my save files are corrupted, and I can load some of the saved files or start a new game, but the game WILL NOT SAVE! If I try, it attempts to read and then crashes.

    Uninstalling and then reinstalling the game doesn't work, neither does restoring to a time when it DID work. I even defragmented my disk, hoping it would write over the old data files. When I reinstall the game it doesn't start fresh: I get the same game files I had when this problem started, and no ability to save files.

    Any advice that doesn't involve paying the GeekSquad a hefty fee to find out they don't know the answer any more than I do?





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I think I might have your solution....
11/22/2013, 17:50:24

    Bones writes:

    This problem sounded familiar, so I search our old messages (using the 'Find' function above and the term 'save'). Probably only one of your save files -- and most likely your last one -- is corrupted. Create a temp folder and move save files into it until the game starts loading saves properly. I'm guessing that it's a problem with cross-linking.

    You can read a bit more at the link below. Please let us know if this helps.



    Related link: Disaster averted, crash on "Save Game" fixed

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Happened
11/24/2013, 15:48:34

    Roderick on vacation writes:

    I had something like that .
    I think it might depends on OS and compability .




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This is Embarrassing to Admit...
11/26/2013, 14:17:11

    Guinn Berger writes:

    I'm fairly clueless to current computer lore. I'm lost somewhere back in the 1990s and I don't know where in my current computer the MM6 save files are located. I've done a few searches, including hidden files and haven't found their location... started, naturally, in the MM6 folder and spread out from there.

    I'm glad a solution exists, but as I've said, I'm clueless where to find the files I want to work with.

    Concentrated, detailed Help, please...?





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Hold down . . .
11/26/2013, 18:59:18

    Peter2 writes:

    . . . the Windows key (the one on the bottom row of the keyboard with 4 little white way squares on it) and press F. This will enter the disc search routine. You'll have to work out for yourself how to use it - I can't advise you because I don't know what operating system you've got.

    When you've worked it out, ask it to search for a file named "SAVE000.MM6" (without the quotes). When the file is found, write down the path and the name of the directory it is in. Like I say, write it down, don't rely on your memory.

    That is the name of the autosave file. All your other saves will be with it in the same directory.

    HTH!





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Correction.
11/26/2013, 19:00:43

    Peter2 writes:

    ... 4 little white wavy squares ...




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Thank you!
11/26/2013, 21:39:25

    Guinn Berger writes:

    This is ringing a bell loudly. I'm sure I've seen that file name before. I will report how this works out.

    You are a lifesaver!





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Strange. I'd swear they go in <MM6 folder>/Saves.
11/30/2013, 15:13:30

    Ramillies writes:

    In my case they do. It's a Grayface-patched game ran under Wine on Linux.

    But you say that you have looked around the MM6 folder and found nothing ... so if you haven't overlooked it, I'm afraid I can't be of much help.





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That's where mine are.
12/15/2013, 17:01:13

    Peter2 writes:

    Once, back in the old days of MS-DOS, I came across a daffy definition:

    A Program - a magical spell cast on a computer which enables it to turn your data into an error code and then deny it ever existed.

    Maybe things haven't changed all that much in the meantime . . .





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Aah ... Never used DOS :
12/16/2013, 10:26:56

    Ramillies writes:





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I still have and use a few DOS programs that I find extremely helpful
12/16/2013, 19:38:14

    Peter2 writes:

    It's a very useful system if you need to bypass the safety features that are built into the Windows interfaces. It's a bit like a hex editor in that respect.

    And I still have some DOS games, too. MM1-5, Swords of Xeen, Ultima Underworld 1 & 2, the three "Eye of the Beholder" Games . . .





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Well, I'm a Linux man. But I believe it can have its uses.
12/17/2013, 13:21:39

    Ramillies writes:

    For playing games for DOS I use Dosbox. You must have heard about that already, but in that improbable case you haven't, it's very nice and complete cross-platform DOS emulator (so it runs natively even on Linuxes ).




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Yes. I might need your help in a couple of years.
12/17/2013, 19:36:34

    Peter2 writes:

    When I finally retire, I want to play the old games I never had time to tackle before. Zedd (you remember Zedd?) used Dosbox a lot, and I was going to ask him for help, but the old man with the scythe caught up with him a couple of years ago.




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At your service, Sir!
12/18/2013, 16:56:48

    Ramillies writes:

    I wasn't lurking around these Taverns in the times Zedd lived. But I have read backwards a lot in here, so I know who he was and that he had died. And eventhough I have had no talk with him here, I remember feeling grief when reading the BDJ's post about his passing.

    It seemed to me that the mournful duty to announce death of any beloved tavernsmen came naturally to BDJ. Now I am afraid of him as well...





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That's what worries me, too.
12/18/2013, 20:24:25

    Peter2 writes:

    I would hate it if BDJ were just quietly to slip away from among us, and for none of us to know.




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Especially for him.
12/19/2013, 02:34:57

    Ramillies writes:

    It seemed that it was always him who tracked down the long-lost fellows here. So there comes a question, who will track him? In this I see the danger that we could have lost him and yet we will not know.




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... but I still like (and do) working with terminals.
12/16/2013, 10:28:30

    Ramillies writes:

    No, no. You see, programs are still the same, only they are running under more modern OSs and try to have nicer interface ... which is only another big potential source for nasty errors




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THANKS To Everyone Who Helped... I FOUND THE SOLUTION!
02/07/2014, 16:32:18

    Guinn Berger writes:

    I finally tried a full-computer search on just the extension ".mm6" and there were all nine of the save files: "SAVE001.mm6" and so on. I moved them into a folder on my desktop, and tried the game: same crash occurred. Then I renamed them "SAVE001.tmp" etc. When I reopened my game, the only file still there was "autosave" and I was able to save in one of the slots and continue playing.

    Apparently the game searches for the save files wherever they are, chiefly by the extension. I could use none of them, but with them out of the way the game happily replaces them if there is nothing already existent by that file name.

    Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU everybody who pointed me in the right direction! (Finally got time to work on this puzzle after cleaning up some grief with the OS and antivirus!)





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