Program reload and old Ship Designs

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Hi all,

I bought a new laptop and reloaded GalCiv2 (most recent version, Twilight), but found that my old ship design templates were not recognized (do not show up on the template screen). I recreated the appropriate directories, etc., and when I create a new design now with the name of one of the old designs, I get the warning "Do you want to overwrite?"  So, part of the game is seeing the old designs, but not that part that lets me use them.

Lots of work in those designs, and I hate to lose them. Any thoughts on how to get the program to recognize the old files?

Thanks.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I've noticed that internally in a given game 'X', it only recognizes ships that existed when the game was created or were created in game, not new ships created outside the game in question et al; presumably the system creates an array and adds to it as new designs are added, but I suspect it 'obsoletes' designs by deleting the pointers, which impies that updating the array from outside would 'unobsolete' designs, sooooooo . . . it doesn't.

So if you created a new game, *then* ported them over, then no, it will not recognize them.

If that's not the case, than I got nuthin', sorry - Jonnan.