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Posted: **Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:05 pm**

For some reason, my 'save game' menu-option does not work anymore. 'Save game as' still works. Luckily.

'Save game' asks to overwrite the already existing file (path is correct) and seems to work properly.
When restoring the game however, nothing has been saved!
This problem popped up after updating to the latest version, but I am not sure if this has anything to do with that.

After a little research, I found out that the 'Save game' saves my game as a file without an extension (that I cannot access).
So the proper description of what I have found would be:
1. I go to the menu item 'save game'.
2. MWiF asks whether I want to overwrite the existing file or not, and I click 'yes'.
3. MWiF creates* a file with the same name, but without an extension.
4. When restoring the game, I can ofc only restore the file with the .GAM extension.
Trying to restore the file without extension (browse option in the restore-menu) results in an error.

* Deleting this file does not help, MWiF creates it again if I did (but still asks if I want to overwrite the 'existing' file).

Posted: **Sat Jul 11, 2015 11:33 pm**

ORIGINAL: TeaLeaf

For some reason, my 'save game' menu-option does not work anymore. 'Save game as' still works. Luckily.

'Save game' asks to overwrite the already existing file (path is correct) and seems to work properly.
When restoring the game however, nothing has been saved!
This problem popped up after updating to the latest version, but I am not sure if this has anything to do with that.

After a little research, I found out that the 'Save game' saves my game as a file without an extension (that I cannot access).
So the proper description of what I have found would be:
1. I go to the menu item 'save game'.
2. MWiF asks whether I want to overwrite the existing file or not, and I click 'yes'.
3. MWiF creates* a file with the same name, but without an extension.
4. When restoring the game, I can ofc only restore the file with the .GAM extension.
Trying to restore the file without extension (browse option in the restore-menu) results in an error.

* Deleting this file does not help, MWiF creates it again if I did (but still asks if I want to overwrite the 'existing' file).

Have you tried using Windows to put the GAM extension on the file? I believe that would work - for now. I've added fixing this to my task list.

Posted: **Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:10 am**

Good idea!
No I didn't try that. I thought about it but assumed it wouldn't work because my savegame would then be named "name.GAM" without an extension. I assumed wrong, of course. It is working. Also, renaming the file using the 'cmd-method' works (ren save save.GAM).

NOTE: During the process of adding the extension myself, and, more importantly, testing if this would work, I noticed that MWiF sometimes saves correctly with the GAM extension, sometimes not. So the problem is not always there.

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