Crimson Skies: How to Manually Back Up Saved Games (274845)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Crimson Skies

This article was previously published under Q274845

SUMMARY

This article describes how to manually back up saved games in Microsoft Crimson Skies.

MORE INFORMATION

To manually back up your saved games in Crimson Skies:
  1. Quit Crimson Skies.
  2. Right-click the Start button, and then click Explore.
  3. Open the following default Crimson Skies installation folder

    drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Crimson Skies

    where drive is the letter of the hard disk on which Crimson Skies is installed.NOTE: If you installed Crimson Skies to an alternate folder, browse to that folder.
  4. In the Crimson Skies folder, right-click the SavedGames folder, and then click Copy.
  5. Right-click a folder in which you want to back up the SavedGames folder, and then click Paste.

    For example, you may want to paste the folder in the My Documents folder, the Desktop folder, or the "Documents and Settings" folder.
To restore the saved games that you copy to another folder, copy the SavedGames folder from the location that you copied it to, back to the Crimson Skies folder.

NOTE: When you copy the SavedGames folder back into the Crimson Skies folder, you overwrite all the files in the SavedGames folder and any missions that you saved after you copied the folder to the backup location.

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:8/6/2002
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