Thread:Merrimack/@comment-27643406-20160423083123/@comment-32738051-20160423112930

NeoTknsPls or just Neo in game, right? I was posting on a thread at one point or other that Neo was also posting on and, if I remember correctly, I've been recommended (maybe by you) to add Neo as a friend. I'm still waiting to remove another inactive friend or two so I can invite him to my FL. I'm slow at removing people because I give them every chance first.

Anyway, yes, I know Neo and I will ask him about it. I'm also on Windows so I should be able to do the same as he can.

I don't know that I'm light years ahead but something else I considered is getting someone who is close to P's level (which I'm not) to just email her a copy (or share it with her in the cloud) of their player.prf file and let her use that directly. My hope is that she could do the same as already suggested and reinstall the game then replace that one file with the one someone sends her. The only thing is she and the other player should time it so only one of them is in the game using that file at one time. Just in case. Once she's in the game online and seeing that person's game info, she would then change the game name to her own so that, in theory, from that point forward her copy would be her own game and the other person would still be able to use their copy as normal. In theory. Anyway, the other thing is I don't know - it would have to be tested - if the file is different depending on the platform from which it came versus the platform of the game the file is being copied to. It's not an executable file nor is it a driver or any other file type wherein it would matter which platform. Player.prf is just a data file and, much like Word and Excel files that can be opened in different OSs so long as the parent program is installed, I think it will operate the same no matter which platform the device and the game are on. Again, that's the theory. Won't know until all this is tried.

The link you provided is a good reference but doesn't help in this case because P lost all her files on her device when her tablet's board went bad. And she didn't back them up to an external drive or cloud account beforehand. I rather prefer Foss' Backing Up The Game page myself, since it covers all platforms but I think there's a few extra points made in your link than is in Foss' version.