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Pre-EE character's journal

Post by Diegovog » Sun Jul 08, 2018 11:22 pm

I have asked a couple of times how to retrieve my character's journal before migrating to EE. People suggested me to:

A) Check the "localvault" folder under "My Documents" NWN's folder.
- However, that is the location of the EE edition. So the only journals there are the new ones.

B) To check the old NWN's folder in the "localvault" folder.
- But there are only .bic files there, no .txt ones...

I didn't uninstall the the old NWN so I imagine my character's journal should still be here, no?
Any ideas?

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Re: Pre-EE character's journal

Post by MissEvelyn » Sun Jul 08, 2018 11:39 pm

I found my old Journal files under the actual pre-EE game files. For me it was C:\Program Files (x86)\Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition\localvault - this is the GOG version of the game by the way.

The files were charactername.txt


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Re: Pre-EE character's journal

Post by Diegovog » Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:12 am

Weird! Mine only has .bic files :(

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Re: Pre-EE character's journal

Post by Durvayas » Mon Jul 09, 2018 6:06 am

Diegovog wrote:
Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:12 am
Weird! Mine only has .bic files :(
You can still open those in notepad. Much of what you find will be a jumbled mess, but strings of actual text, like descriptions and such, are still there among the code. You can copy paste those bits.
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Re: Pre-EE character's journal

Post by MoreThanThree » Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:13 am

Can you rewrite it? Do you remember what you wrote?
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Re: Pre-EE character's journal

Post by Diegovog » Tue Jul 10, 2018 12:53 pm

Unfortunately, I can't. I kept a large journal with a lot of important information.

I think my .txt file isn't in that folder because I didn't modify/use journal while I played old nwn on this computer (which is newish). Oh well, tough luck :(
Thanks for the help

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Re: Pre-EE character's journal

Post by Blood on my Lips » Tue Jul 10, 2018 3:59 pm

Diegovog wrote:
Tue Jul 10, 2018 12:53 pm
Unfortunately, I can't. I kept a large journal with a lot of important information.

I think my .txt file isn't in that folder because I didn't modify/use journal while I played old nwn on this computer (which is newish). Oh well, tough luck :(
Thanks for the help
Journals are stored locally on your machine. If you still have the old computer you can copy it to the new one. If you don't know how to do that, you can always email the information from the old journal to yourself and copy and paste it into the new journal file on the new computer.

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