If you have lost your save slots in Machinarium after the restart you should try these steps:
- Right-click on the screen to get to the Adobe Flash Player Settings Tabs, select the little folder icon and make sure the slider is NOT set to none! You need at least 100 KB.
- If you use CCleaner you need to exclude the save directory:
1. Open ccleaner.
2. Options
3. “Exclude”
4. Add Folder
5. Search the save path, eg C:\Users{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\{RANDOMWORD}\localhost\Program Files\Machinarium\machinarium.exe
check if the box is in | *.* |
6. Accept
5. Ready now can use ccleaner and do not erase your saved game.
- If you use BetterPrivacy addon for Firefox you need to change its settings:
With Machinarium running, switch to a Firefox session. Open up Better Privacy’s options. In its “LSO Manager” tab, you will see an entry for machinarium.exe. Highlight the entry and hit the “Prevent Automatic LSO Deletion” button. Better Privacy will now leave Machinarium’s Flash settings alone, but continue to sweep away the bad stuff.
You can find more informations on our forum in this thread.
thanks to popsUlfr!
Hi, please make your games for Ipod Touch and Iphone! All are awesome!!
I’m not sure why but this solution (first one) doesn’t work with me. I still loose all progress and save after i restart my computer.
To save games in Mac, after you leave the game, make a copy of ‘Macromedia’ folder in your desktop (is in ~/library/preferences).
This is where your saved slots are. Before resuming the game (after a restart. for example) replace ‘Macromedia’ (in preferences) with the previously saved ‘Macromedia’.
This works for me (Snow Leopard, 10.6.2)
Excellente game, music. Feels like ‘Myst’ all over again!
You should put a warning inside the game with instructions on how to fix this, so people know what to do BEFORE they lose saved games. The warning should be very large & it should be displayed the first time you run Machinarium. All saved games will be deleted by BetterPrivacy when you close Firefox unless the Machinarium Flash object is specifically protected. Many people will not even bother to finish the game after this happens. Some have received advertising phone calls after visiting a site because different sites are sharing information about their visitors using persistent cookies. People should not be punished by software developers for deleting Flash cookies and other tracking files. In the future, you should avoid using Flash as a game creation tool.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/flash_cookies.html
http://www.ghostery.com/
Hi!
Im a game programmer in Quebec, Canada. My game designer just told us about this game yesterday, Ive just tried the demo and finally bought the full game!
I just wanted to congratulate you and your team on this great piece of work that reminds me of old days with “Day of the Tentacle”, “Myst” and other great click & puzzle games.
The music is awesome, the art is breathless and the game is very addictive!
Félicitations! (Congrats)
Keep up the good work!
I didn’t understand the concluding part of your article, could you please explain it more?
Congratulations for this one, you took my breath. Make sure to expand your profit by putting this on the iPad, or iPhone – it would be a SCREAMER.
Great game. Well worth the (low) price. Graphics are great (love the “pencil-drawn” look. The main character and its interaction with the other characters is very charming. The puzzles are challenging without being frustratingly difficult (well, except for the nuts & bolts game). I’ll be watching for a sequel! :)
Please, please fix this or something, I guess backing up my .sol file will work, but it really doesn’t do it for me to have to backup the file after each play, and put the backed-up one back in place myself. I mean, I’ll do it, cause I want to play, but I wish it could be better :(
Ccleaner users, i think i have just found a soloution to lost saved games, restart pc then run game till you want to quit, then ,SAVE YOUR GAME, exit, then run Ccleaner, go to options and select cookies,there will be two for flash machinarium, then transfere them to the right hand box, it worked for me, on widows XP,sp3,
Great game but… Um, after playing for hours and days, and thinking I had saved games, today I opened it to find them all GONE.
A few days ago I was running low on disk space so I ran CCleaner to clean out *browser* temp files and other files.
Since Machinarium is a program I downloaded and installed as a bona fide .exe program, I certainly did not expect that its save files would be included in those wiped out by a program that cleans out *temp files*.
Your game is great, but after pouring a LOT of time and energy into getting to a certain point in the game, just to see it all irrevocably destroyed, I am quite frankly disgusted.
I’ve gone from wanting to loudly tell everyone I knew about how wonderful this game was, to being disgusted by the very thought of it and never wanting to see or play it again, because it would remind me of all the progress I lost.
You either need to abandon flash as your medium or find a way to make it so the game save files are not stored in locations considered by normal programs to be temp file locations. Since that may be a consequence of using flash, see suggestion #1.
I just feel betrayed and disgusted, and will never play your game again, or other games I might have otherwise enthusiastically purchased also (and I did purchase Machinarium) because of this incident.
@Anthooony
come on guy get a life and try not to be such a drama queen – it sucks – just because you stumbled upon one of the most intelligent games ever developed does not mean that you have to bother people with your lack of understanding technology and your whining about a overloaded bloody PC. Get a Mac for gods sake, get lots of disk space-I heard you don’t have to sell your soul for it – and get on with it – just do me one big favour and stop crying about your own misery ! This would be greatly appreciated indeed.
And now live well for the rest of your counted time, my son… Ag shame, and after drying your tears you may still tell some nice and friendly people about this game anyway