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Does anybody know how Machinarium handles save states? I put about a half hour into it the other day, clicked 'Save,' and then quit.

Loaded it up today to continue and lo and behold, my save game was nowhere to be found.

One caveat is that I don't have internet access currently...is it possible that it syncs save states with the Steam cloud?

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It doesn't use the Steam cloud. As to if it uses a different one, I don't know, but I wouldn't expect so. – Matthew Scharley Aug 26 '11 at 14:16
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I had a similar problem where it deleted my save, was rather annoying. To say the least I probably won't get around to finishing it for awhile because of this. – Wipqozn Aug 26 '11 at 14:30
That evokes sadness in me. I was enjoying the simplistic point&click style too. – espais Aug 26 '11 at 15:04

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I may have found the answer. I didn't realize that it makes use of the Flash player data directory instead of somewhere more logical, like the Documents or Steam folder.

Machinarium forums

Long story short...if you are regularly using something like Ccleaner to clear out your temp files, then your save games will get blown away.

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Machanarium is essentially a Flash game, and one of the default location CCleaner will clear is the Flash local object data, which most Flash games use to hold their save files. – Private Pansy Aug 26 '11 at 16:16
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True, but if its being released as a full-game as part of Steam, I would have hoped that the developers would put users save game files in a non-volatile environment. – espais Aug 26 '11 at 16:18
It was originally released as a stand-alone game, then added to Steam later on down the road (sometime around the Humble Indie Bundle 2 release). It doesn't have any Steam integration like some other games might: achievements, cloud saves, etc. – Doozer Blake Aug 26 '11 at 18:39
Let's say I'm clearing my browsing history though. Will erasing cookies do the same thing? Will erasing the cache do the same thing? Where does Flash player data store itself in? – Dante Dec 21 '11 at 7:52
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it's straight forward guys. When you save game and quit, navigate to shared objects/machinarium folder and locate machinarium.sol file. Copy and paste to desktop. When you restart, exit and copy and replace file in same folder (this has reverted back to startinf point). Relaunch game and bingo - sorted. Bit of a pain but only takes 10 seconds and worth it.

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you could improve that by writing a batch file that copies the backed up machinarium.sol (from some better place than desktop please), then starts machinarium and after that quits makes a new backup – Zommuter Dec 30 '11 at 12:42
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too much hassle to write a batch file; so easy the way I have described. Doesn't have to be desktop, can be anywhere but is convenient and quick. – kev Dec 30 '11 at 16:02

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