Warning:CCleaner deletes savegames

VVVVVV

Game » consists of 6 releases. First released on Jan 10, 2010

VVVVVV, pronounced "the letter V six times", is an indie 2D puzzle platformer developed by Terry Cavanagh, in which players, rather than jumping, invert their own gravity to cover gaps and avoid obstacles.

Warning:CCleaner deletes savegames

#1 Edited by atomic_dumpling (2321 posts) - 3 years, 4 months ago

In case you didn't already know: The popular CCleaner program deletes local flash files including all savegames.

The folder to exclude is: C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\[random number]\localhost
(that's for Win7/Vista, don't know about XP, should be roughly the same). If you put that folder on the exception list in CCleaner, you should be fine.

Affected games:

Machinarium
VVVVVV

#2 Posted by Legend (2495 posts) - 3 years, 4 months ago

@atomic_dumpling said:

" In case you didn't already know: The popular CCleaner program deletes local flash files including all savegames.

The folder to exclude is: C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
(that's for Win7/Vista, don't know about XP, should be roughly the same). If you put that folder on the exception list in CCleaner, you should be fine.

Affected games:

Machinarium
VVVVVV
"

Thanks for the warning. I use CCleaner and I intend to buy VVVVVV soon. I would be devastated if my save file was deleted.

#3 Posted by harris (847 posts) - 3 years, 4 months ago

Aww man... I read this directly after running CCleaner. My save is now gone. Oh well... I won't mind playing through this again, amazing game. Thanks for the warning, anyways.

#4 Posted by atomic_dumpling (2321 posts) - 3 years, 4 months ago

It's actually mentioned in the Readme-File, but not many people read those these days. However, it occured to me that it's probably wiser to just exclude the "localhost" folder and not the whole "#shared" folder.

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