Thanks for the info on this...  my first reaction was to just copy files.  I never associated an archive with the way to move a game from one place to another - just concentrated on the 'save'.

The game restored fine -- and played w/o changes, but the background color on the command buttons and the info bar at the top changed from the standard black to what appears to be one of the colors I picked for my pieces...  (?)  Not disabling, but strange.

Thanks, again...

Gary

Attempted to follow your directions again for a second game and came up with the above.  Any ideas?

The only thing that I can think of that was different (other than this was a new laptop and the game was the first game played) was that the game would come up at end of turn and I would say "wait" before proceeding and then did the game archive.

I haven't fiddled with anything else so if you need any other info please let me know.

Sincerely,

Gary

PS: No, I don't go looking for these things...   Game archived on Win10, loaded on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - both the latest version.

I went back to the laptop and re-archived the game...  then played a bit more (IE, past the end-of-move condition) and the re-archived (different archive name).  Played a bit more and then re-archived (again with a different name).  The archive files were copied over the windows network to the Ubuntu machine and then moved to the ~/.config/... directory.  I tried loading each of the archives - each time starting the game from the desktop - and it failed with the "object not found" message each time.  I also tried deleting the game from the "Load game" list that comes up before restoring the archive and got the same result.  I also did a binary compare between the windows network shared version (which was created via a copy/paste in Explorer from the Win10 laptop) and the copy over in Ubuntu ~/.config and the files are identical so there was no translation or failure in the copy (unless windows screwed up the copy/paste from the laptop local drive to the network location).

In short the following were all tried:

1. Re-archive & load from the "turn is finished - wait" condition
2. Re-archive & load from the start of the next move.
3. Re-archive & load from several turns & moves later.
4. Went back to the laptop, removed the game from the 'load list' & restored the archived game to the laptop (replacing what was there) - this worked fine - game loaded without problem.

The first two and fourth were loaded both before & after removing the previous restore from the "load list".  All attempts to load were the first thing done after the game was started from the desktop.

I'm guessing I'm not making some brain-dead error in the process because the laptop loads the archive just fine & I'm doing the same thing over on the Ubuntu system.  This is only the second time I've tried to move a game -- the first time it worked great -- although that old laptop died and this is a different Dell.

Not sure where to go from here... 

Gary

Mark,

> This tells me you created a unit db on the linux box in the game on the linux box.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say "in the game on the linux box".  I went to "Unit Modification", started with the enhanced set, made changes to the air transport and then saved it as "Enhanced Air Transport".  I select that unit set when I start a new game there.  On the laptop (*I THINK*) I did the same thing, but it's saved as "Enhanced Set Copy".  So, yes, they would be two independent DB entries.  While looking for this I noticed that there doesn't seem to be any way of determining what unit set is in play once a game has been started... I don't know if anyone would care given you can name things anyway you want, but it might be nice to know if you're playing multiple games with different sets.

> need to be copied, and moved to the same udb dir on the Linux box

I'm assuming that doing the opposite (Linux udb => Windows udb) would also work...  but not for this specific game - just to avoid problems in the future.

What other sorts of things should be copied to avoid future problems?  Is it possible to just copy the whole EmpireDeluxe directory from KBSW? ... or are there system specifics in there?

Making the assumption that I really don't care about the settings on the Windows laptop other than I'd like it to "feel" the same as the Linux box (probably all settings - especially the keyboard shortcuts I've defined) - and be able to move games started on the Windows Laptop and then move them over to the Linux box - what *should* be copied?  Is there some menu-driven way of accomplishing this?  Is this something that's inherently difficult or fraught with error(s)?  Would moving an "account" do this?  Is this enough questions?  :-)

I will often start a game on the laptop when I'm not at home & bored stiff, and then want to finish it on the linux desktop because it's much easier to use the keyboard & mouse on the desktop instead of the pseudo keyboard & trackpad on the laptop.

I'm happy to be a guinea pig if you want one.

Thanks,

Gary

Mark,

Thanks for your help with this!  I read the back-end part of the manual (only about the third time now) and have a much better feel for things.

Copying the entire KBSW/EmpireDeluxe directory from my desktop (Ubuntu) to the  laptop (Win10) worked great!  I now have the same settings in both places, including the account and keyboard settings.

Thanks again,

Gary