yrro on 22/3/2006 at 01:18
I reinstalled Windows today, but when I restored my Thief 3 saved games I found that I had no inventory (including lock pick), loot or objectives! Also the levels were reset to the default state--characters I had killed and items I stole had returned.
Fortunatly I found the thread containing saved games at the start of each level, so I haven't really lost my position; however I would like to keep my accumulated loot, and frankly I am afraid to [spoiler]venture into the Cradle and face the... patients while bereft of fire arrows,[/spoiler] and so I ask: has this happened to anyone else, and if so, is there anything I can do to fix it?
edit: mystery solved! When I restored the backup of my saved games, I did so from a read-only disk. Windows therefore set the read-only attribute on the restored files, which caused the bizarre behaviour above.
