I've had a couple reports of the games INI file being reset automatically out of the blue. One person suggested that the cause of this is that iOS has an automatic routine/function that deletes all temporary, unprotected and cached data from apps. It is usually launched by the os when the storage free space is low and it isn't enough to perform a task. The most frequent reason is installing a big app while the disk is almost full. If thats the case is there anyway to protect the game data?
Not sure where MMF saves INIs, but there should be some safe directory that isn't cleared out in such a situation. This link may help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7...d-new-ios-vers
After a bit of digging, looks like MMF is putting saved data (well List object save files at any rate) in Library/Cache directory which might explain the problem - might be better in Documents (that's where I used to save user data when coding in XCode)?
I can confirm that several MMF made apps lost their save files (INI) during updayes or with Low space.
It's a bit of a hack, but works for saving List object data, so don't see why it shouldn't work for INI:
save/load as "../../Documents/MySaveData" - this will step up from Library/Caches and into Documents
Hope it helps!
My only worry is now if I do that, will everyone lose there current data and have to restart?
You might be able to make it backwards compatible by trying to load the file as usual, check if a value exists, and save again in the Documents directory.
Of course you'll need to wipe out the original, perhaps use an empty INI and save that over the old one - like I said it's a bit of a hack
I'm more familiar with using the List object where I can check to see if number of lines=0
PS Even if Clickteam change the save data to use Documents in a future version of iOS Exporter, you'll still have the same problem.
I guess I'll have to look into that. I just released an update and have all ready gotten a couple complaints from people losing all of their dataI guess on the bright side I checked other games that have been recently updated and games like JetPack Joyride are also getting those types of negative reviews for the same issue. From what I can tell its been updated 55,000 times and I have 3-4 negative reviews about the data going blank issue so maybe its not a huge issue, just kinda sucks.
Thanks for this info. maybe clickteam can add support for chosing where to save ini, array and list data? In the mean time i will try this out on my new game...was about to send it to Apple to publish.Originally Posted by AyreGuitar
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Im afraid this will be a bigger issue whenever iOS gets another update as from what I've read the the /cache folders don't get backed up
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