Thread:Neo34/@comment-32738051-20160423162418/@comment-28625332-20160423185805

Ah the good old MS-DOS days! :-) Unfortunately, I haven't yet managed to "get inside" the player.prf structure and re-creating a profile from scratch would, I believe, be next to impossible without first understanding how that file is put together. An awful lot of experimentation would be required for that because although some "structure" is evident, in a text editior say, there are no clues as to the meaning of the structure. All I've managed to do with it is transfer it, unedited, from my Android Nexus 7 to my Windows 10 laptop; that worked, and really proved that it's all that's needed to backup and safe-quard your profile. The files that I've been concentrating on are the .xmls in the "Social" folder, which are easily readable in a text editor. Whilst they give a great deal of insight into the mechanics of how the game works for the gifting/friends aspect, they are no help what-so-ever in recreating a lost profile. I'm very sorry Pamster's game is lost; I nearly stopped playing when I was returned to level 77 from level 105 overnight...it was from that point on that I started to investigate backup strategies.