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2010-08-27
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2010-08-28
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Why do you blame Nokia for that? It's the programmer's decision to put the files wherever they are. Even if there was a central place for "savegames" every programmer could use his own directories. Log files are already spread across the system even there is a central place for them in /var/log.
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2010-08-28
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I'm the one to blame about the placement, but not for the lack of backup. I didn't know where to place the files so I looked up the most authoritative reference I could find, in this case Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 2.3 (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/).
Because the game is installed under /opt/ hierarchy, the standard dictates:
5.12. /var/opt : Variable data for /opt
Variable data of the packages in /opt must be installed in /var/opt/<subdir>, where <subdir> is the name
of the subtree in /opt where the static data from an add-on software package is stored
But for some reason this hierarchy clearly was left out from the backup process.
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2010-08-28
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2010-08-28
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2010-08-28
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Here you are: http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...k-up_locations
I think its anoying that the save games are so deep in the system and are not in the backup. now when something goes wrong you loose everything if you dont know how to copy the saves.
Its strange that such a highend device doesn't keep saves on a central place. for example in the a map called savegames on the n900 memory so that they can easily be copied to a pc when you need to reflash.