Where is my file saving too? Need to back it up

[Kola]

Hi there,

I am using Miracle piano teaching system to sharpen up my piano skills again.

I have created in win uae an A1200 emulation with a hardrive. I have installed Miracle to the hard drive and never have to save or load as it just remembers where Im up too.

This tells me it is saving somewhere but I dont know where.

I want to back up my progress as there a literally hundreds of lessons and I can do without starting again due to a hard rive prob or even a windows prob that buggers my UAE up.

Any help appreciated as always.

[TCD]

There must be a file on your harddrive. Look for a file that has the timestamp of today inside the Miracle folder. You do that by opening the folder, choose to see all files and sort them by date

[Kola]

Hi Druid.

I already tried that. When I open the Miracle folder it only has two other icons in it. A one called Miracle that launches the program when clicked or a preferences box that launches some sort of printer wizard.

Cant see any other file or even icon in the folder.

[TCD]

Sorry, I was a bit unclear (again ). When the folder is open hold down your right mouse button and select 'Window' from the menu at the top of the screen. Then go to 'Show contents' and select 'All files' (might read a bit different since I use the german translation here). After that go again to the 'Window' menu, go to 'List contents' and select 'By date'. This way you should see all files and more infos about the files.

[prowler]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

(might read a bit different since I use the german translation here).

No, it looks good to me.

[Kola]

Ah right. Thanks fella, got that working now.

THeres a fair few files mind you. About 20 all with little hammer icons??

Only one says user.dat so im hoping this will be my back up?

Can I not just back the whole win UAE virtual hard drive up?

[TCD]

Originally Posted by prowler

No, it looks good to me.

Cool Hope this will show Kola the file he needs to backup

Originally Posted by Kola

Can I not just back the whole win UAE virtual hard drive up?

Of course, this would be the easiest way

[prowler]

Originally Posted by Kola

Only one says user.dat so im hoping this will be my back up?

Can I not just back the whole win UAE virtual hard drive up?

Hi Kola,

Of course you can back up the whole WinUAE virtual hard drive, but this will be a waste if all that's needed is to back up the user.dat file.

Try moving the user.dat file out of your Miracle folder, say to the RamDisk, and then restart the application. If your progress is lost by doing this, then shut down the application and restore the user.dat file. Then just make a copy of this file somewhere safe.

[Kola]

Hi Prowler,

I realy dont know what I need to back up. Just guesing it will be user.dat?

In the real amiga world Id back this up to floppy right? Can I not just make a floppy with UAE? Or an adf, as long as it backs me up then im happy

[prowler]

Originally Posted by Kola

Hi Prowler,

I realy dont know what I need to back up. Just guesing it will be user.dat?

In the real amiga world Id back this up to floppy right? Can I not just make a floppy with UAE? Or an adf, as long as it backs me up then im happy

Have you tried the trick I suggested above with the user.dat file? If it's not that file (though I think it probably is), then try the same thing with others until you find the right one. Just remember to move back the last one tried before you try the next.

Of course, there's no reason you shouldn't back up this file to an ADF if you choose.

[TCD]

You can make a floppy in WinUAE pretty easy. Have a look :



You could also make a virtual harddrive with a Windows folder. This way you have the file accessible in Windows afterwards (when you copy it to the harddrive) and save the overhead caused by the ADF image

[Kola]

Prowler & Cyber Druid - Many thanks for all the help. Appreciated!

[prowler]

Originally Posted by Kola

Many thanks for all the help. Appreciated!

You're welcome, mate! Always happy to help.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Kola

Prowler & Cyber Druid - Many thanks for all the help. Appreciated!

You're always welcome I took me quite a while to get used to it all, so I'm happy when I can help to shorten the 'learning curve' with WinUAE for others

[prowler]

I have a question, TCD.

How do you get those red ellipses on your screenshots? I've seen them a lot on these threads. I just wondered, is there an easy way to do it?

[TCD]

Originally Posted by prowler

I have a question, TCD.

How do you get those red ellipses on your screenshots? I've seen them a lot on these threads. I just wondered, is there an easy way to do it?

I use Windows Paint
Quick tut : Choose the line tool and select the second thickness. Then choose the circle tool, change the foreground color to red and there you go It takes a bit of 'training' to choose the right starting point for the circle

Edit : Guess it's not 'circle tool', but 'ellipse tool'

[prowler]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

I use Windows Paint

Great! Thanks a lot, mate.

And thanks for the quick tutorial - help like this is always appreciated.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by prowler

Great! Thanks a lot, mate.

And thanks for the quick tutorial - help like this is always appreciated.

You're welcome too mate Looking forward to see your first 'red ellipse' screenshot

[prowler]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Looking forward to see your first 'red ellipse' screenshot

Look for it in my USB Flash Drive thread (to be continued...) in the New Year!

[TCD]

Originally Posted by prowler

Look for it in my USB Flash Drive thread (to be continued...) in the New Year!

Will do so