First, the good news. I was able to download and install the new, FREE Mavericks OS for my Mac. It upgraded just fine from Snow Leopard. I didn't lose anything other than a few very old, very silly games that I can get for cheap on Big Fish should I really want them. (And, crazily, my ancient and rare American McGee's Alice game, Mac version, appears still to be functional, although I won't know for sure until I find the game I have packed away and insert the disc. I guess if it worked all the way up to Snow Leopard, it'll still work on Mavericks. It was the installation procedure that was the problem, and it survived that.)
It saved everything else!
Except: my Baldur's Gate saved games. They are not there. I open the game as usual, went to single player, went to load, and the saved games screen came up empty.
I will continue to look, but so far it doesn't look good. Although I actually found the saved games in a BG folder, trying to open one with the BG application still results in an empty saved game screen.
But hey. I had a LOT of fun with it, but I also made a boatload of mistakes. I went with a druid but no cleric. I chose Neera as my mage (bad, bad choice. I've experienced her now, and that's enough of that). I didn't get Boo.
Yet, I very nearly finished the game. Despite Heavaron's rule that you can't win without a cleric, clearly, I would have made it. I only had a few more areas to finish in Durlag's Tower (my fave portion of the game, actually), and I would have been at the endgame.
And, this is a game I will replay many times. So now I've learned how. Yes, the learning curve is steep (at least for me). It would have been nice to have finished, but not the end of the world. I was almost ready to start over anyway.
Anyhoo, I have some ideas about how I want to shape my characters. I want two thieves, one to do traps and one to open locks. It would take one virtually the entire game to get both skills up to 100%. I will find out how to triple class! (there must be a way)
Really, this is a bit weird. I bought the game from the Apple Apps store. If anything should have come through an Apple upgrade, it should have been that. Fortunately, my Angry Birds games--also App store purchases--haven't lost any of my progress.
So, foo. I'll start again when I figure out what I want to do. I think I'll leave up all my posts about the game on this blog. It was an experience!
(Next, however, I'm going to do a new Carol Reed. I managed to buy it--easy enough--but I had to copy the link into my the browser on my virtual XP machine, because I don't have email open in the virtual machine, and they send you the download link in an email. Took a try or two, but it worked!)
End of Baldur's Gate. For now.
UPDATE: I am clever. I searched for BG packages on the 'puter. I found all the saved games, as I said. I also found a new autosave in the resources folder alongside it for a new game that I had started just to see if the game would still work (it does). I tried dropping the save folder I wanted into the folder with the autosave. No matter what, the game would only show the new autosave for a brand new game. So I looked into another BG folder--the data folder--and found yet another save folder there, with that same autosave. After that it was pretty clear what to do. I dragged the save folder I wanted into that folder and voila! It's there now when I open the game (along with that autosave). So I can finish! Ha! In fact, I wound up dragging the whole save folder from resources into data, the one with all my saves--and that works! There all there again, and yes, they do open. I figured it out. Knew there had to be a way. Haha!
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