Moving Ren’Py game saves between computers

[willanik]

After several years I’ve changed the computer I use for playing Ren’Py games. But now, when I go to play any game on my new computer it has none of the game saves that are on my old computer.

I read that saves are kept in the “User name”\AppData\Roaming\RenPy file, so I found this file on the old computer and copied it into the same file on my new computer. But it made no difference; I still can’t make the games on my new computer work with old saves. Is there some way around this, for example another place that the old saves are stored?

I do not want to restart a number of large games so I’m grateful for any help you can give.

[inkacorn]

the problem may be from a couple things.

• you're adding these saves from an older version of the game to a newer version
• you're not copying the persistent files and/or folder
• you already have the game as a folder in the renpy folder

could you share your exact step by step process so we can see what went wrong in the process?

[willanik]

Thanks for replying. I looked more closely at what I'd done to try and respond to your suggestions, and found that the file I moved had not merged with the new file. I have merged them and the problem is fixed! Glad you got me to check it again.