Update, Archive, and Screenshots

New PC Problems

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    Recently my computer crashed and I lost all of my game data.  I installed Trinity on my new PC, and need to download the updates all over again.  However, I have a poor Internet connection, and no longer have the capability of downloading the patches and fixes; is there a way to download them on a different computer, where I have access to high-speed Internet? 

    I also had a question about archiving.  Someone told me that "archive" will save the entire game, complete with patches, to any destination I choose, but the one time I tried it (prior to my PC crash) it did not let me choose my archive destination, and instead began archiving to a folder on my PC (I wanted it on my external hard drive as a backup in case I needed to re-install the updates - my Internet, as stated, is quite poor).  Is there a way to archive the game to an external hard drive?  If so, can the game be run/updated from an external hard drive?  It is my hope to get around my poor Internet by archiving to my external hard drive and taking the game and Impulse to a public Internet service (like at my local library) and then downloading the patches there.  Does anyone know if this will work?

    Thirdly, I like to take screenshots periodically; especially with my PC's new HD graphics card.  However, the folder destination and address is not valid on my new PC.  Whereas before I went to AppData...Local...Ironclad...etc., I no longer have an "AppData" folder, and the file path seems to have vanished, even though it remains the same in-game.  I have done some hard drive searches but cannot find the six screenshots I took yesterday.  The PC is an HP, and it has Windows 7 on it (64-bit); does anyone a suggestion?

    Thanks everyone!

    - KerrdogJ

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Do this.

Control panel.

Select 'View by' and then 'large icons'

then select 'folder options'

then select the 'view tab'

go down to 'hidden files and folders' and then check the show hidden files and folders button.

Hit apply.

Go to c:/AppData blah blah blah. It should now work.

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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Is there a way to archive the game to an external hard drive? If so, can the game be run/updated from an external hard drive?
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Can't you just copy the archive from the folder it puts it in to your external hard drive?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

    @KrdaxDrkrun:  Duh! (Hand slapping forehead)...Hidden files and folders; why is it that I can never think or the simple things?  I make things harder than they need be half the time.  Thanks a bunch!  :blush:

 

    @GoaFan77:  I haven't archived it yet, because I couldn't tell where the folder was going; no file path was listed during the archive process.  I suppose I should have let it run its course, and then conducted a search, but memory has been a big issue for me on my PCs.  The last thing I wanted was a second copy of an already large game floating around somewhere in the innards of my computer.  I'll give it a shot with my new PC though; thanks!