No more lastsav.vxl over-writing

[ReubenMcHawk]

I've had it happen before where I've hit F1 on a server to save a cool map, then gone to another server and accidentally hit F1 instead of Esc while leaving, deleting the old saved map.

My suggestion is that, each time F1 is hit, it saves a new map, as lastsav.vxl, lastsav(2).vxl, etc...

Or take it a step further, and put a date/timestamp on it. I.E.
20110815-08:35:15.vxl
20120118-15:23:31.vxl
20120334-20:49:58.vxl

Any thoughts?

[Pulchritude]

yes is my thought

[Paratrooper]

You can't have colons (:) in a filename, so...

[ReubenMcHawk]

Then I guess replace them with periods, or something else.

[IrishElf]

Yes, love this idea. +1

[Szuwar]

On linux this code will do the job. Just put it in the game folder and run it before you start playing.

Code: Select all

#!/bin/bash

if [ -e lastsav.vxl ]; then
    cp lastsav.vxl last.vxl
else
    touch last.vxl
fi

while [ true ];
do
    if [ -e lastsav.vxl ]; then
        cmp lastsav.vxl last.vxl -s
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then #same
            rm lastsav.vxl
        else
            cp last.vxl `date +%s`".vxl"
            cp lastsav.vxl last.vxl
            rm lastsav.vxl
        fi
    fi
    sleep 2
done

It might be buggy so might need some corrections. Should work fine as long as you won't remove last.vxl or lastsav.vxl while script is running.
I do not have Windows version.

[BlueToonYoshi]

OMG yes! This has been a real problem with the saving map feature. I totally agree with this!

[LASTofS]

Yeah, I accidentally overwrote a save file recently. :(