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I seem to have a very strange bug or two. I think it happens when I unpack a new version of the game, #1, when I play a new update, I launch it from the folder I unpacked it from, play a few days in-game (for this one save, it's day 5) I then save, quit the game to go to bed or something, next day and onwards, it opens from the itch.io client, the save is gone and I start the new update from day 1 again, from there it does save properly, and currently it is day 15, it seems I have 2 versions of the same build, if one is launched from Itch.io, it seems to be the one where I have progressed the most (which has two 0.8.1 build saves in there too which don't seem to have a date for when it was created, saying 0001.01.01-00.00) , if I launch it via the folder it is in (For me, it is C:\Users\(MyUsername)\AppData\Roaming\itch\apps\votv\pa0082_0012\pa0082_0012\WindowsNoEditor that is where the .exe is for the game) it will have the previous save that I first created (and there seems to be a 0.8.1 build save in there as well as a 0.7.0 build too, both are also dated 0001.01.01-00.00),  I figured this out today while trying to run the game as an admin, doing so opens the game without my most recent save (the Day 5 save), while opening it via itch.io (anytime after I reopen the game a 2nd time after a new update and then) will bring me to my most recent save and doesn't seem to have an option to run as admin, I figured this all out solely to try and get some textures to work for custom rugs, pictures, posters and videos for the TV. I don't want to delete and uninstall everything just to try and get an absolutely clean reinstall, as I seem to have lost my day 45 save somehow,  (either that or it's on the outdated 0.8.1 build of the game) so.... if anyone can understand whatever is happening with me right now, I'll gladly accept some help, if I have to stick with it as it is and not be able to use or view the custom stuff, that's ok, but I was looking forward to try and get some custom stuff working. Any help is appreciated, if I can find where the most recent version of the game (the one where my saves are still there, as both seem, to say "Pre-Alpha 0.8.2") and move them to the same place to where they need to be to work properly, run as admin correctly and show all my save files in one place, then I will be pretty happy.

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I haven't used this app, but many people talk about its poor performance, so they advise not to launch games through the app, but to launch them directly from the folder

Oh, ok, Is there a way to move saves around though?  If this works then I may do this to avoid losing my progress

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If it's any help, I found the folder with the older (original) saves with little progress, so I just need to find the folder with the newer saves in them (and possibly the version of the game that opens with them) and see if I can move things around (probably into the original folder) to get them all to show up and work, as opening the .exe file directly seems to only load the older and less progressed save files, opening it through the client app gives me the more recent and more progressed saves.

Edit: running the game as an administrator also only gives me the version with the older saves, less progressed saves, it's like there's a secret folder with the higher progressed saves somewhere on the computer that I cannot find, another thing I have noticed is that sandbox is greyed out and that Solar isn't an option on there, despite it being 0.8.2 also, it keeps saying the file directory is in the same place but I cannot see how that is possible when opening it in two different ways gives two different possibilities on the menu while it remains as the same 0.8.2 build.... it is insanely confusing to me.

Check this way: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\VotV\Saved\SaveGames

I can't say where the application saves.