Thread:12dirtypaws/@comment-22439-20150830160644/@comment-24668482-20151127080330

The process should be the same as for windows 8 outlined on the backing up game page here. You need to copy the game save files from secret society stored in your appdata folder. The quickest way to access your app data is to right click on the windows symbol at the bottom left of your desktop (the start menu in windows 10), when you right click on this it gives you a couple of options instead of opening the start menu. Choose 'run' from the list. The run box will appear.

Type: %appdata%

In the space provided in the run box and press enter. (That's percentage-appdata-percentage).

This will open your app data folder (and save you from having to root around in user folders to find it). It might bring you directly to the roaming folder inside the appdata, where we want to go to the local folder instead - look at the file path at the top of the window - it will show 'yourusername - appdata - roaming'. If this is the case, then click on 'appdata' in that line if so to be brought back out to the main appdata folder.

Then go to: appdata - local - packages

And look for the secret society folder. Inside the secret society folder is a subfolder called 'Localstate', and this is where your save files are. For the sake of simplicity, just copy the whole local folder (you can get away with just one file inside it to restore game progress, but there are other useful files in there related to your friends etc,). Right click on the localstate folder and choose 'copy' from thelist of options.

Pick a location you want to store your backups (e.g. somewhere on the c drive or perhaps on a memory stick if you want an external copy should you ever have to reinstall windows), and create a new folder there called 'secret sociey backups' or something, and then paste the copied localstate folder (right click inside new folder you created and choose paste from the options).

I'd recommend keeping multiple backups - that is, every couple of weeks you can copy the localstate folder again, but don't replace the old one in your backup folder, so you have more than one version of your game files. I have backups dating back to 2013, that I keep in one main folder on PC and sorted first by device and then by date since I have multiple games (thats probably a bit extreme you don't need more than a couple of versions). The reason to have more than one version is in case your player profile files themselves corrupt causing you to lose progress. It could be a case that your last backup was made after the problem started, so by restoring that version of the game all your are doing is putting back the problem files and may crash again. In that case the older version may be fine and you can use that instead.

Should you ever need to restore progress, all you have to do is (with the game closed) go back to the appdata folder, and then in the secret society folder delete the localstate folder and replace it your older copied version of it from whereever you are storing them.