Laptop to PC transfer saves & other files help

[Guest Jack6251]

Hi guys

I've been playing KSP on my laptop but just got my PC up and running again and installed KSP on it.

Which files/folders are crucial to copy over to the PC to give me the exact state of things I have on my laptop? (I have some mods but don't really mean those)

Thanks

[Goddess Bhavani]

You're in luck, KSP can be run directly from the game folder with no registry entries, no clunky my documents folders, everything including mods, saves and craft files are all in the game folder itself.

You can just copy the entire KSP folder from your laptop to the PC without any ill effects.

But since you've already installed KSP on the PC, just copy the Saves (for career save and all craft files) and GameData (if desired, mods are all here) over. That's all there is to it.

[Tank Buddy]

Pandoras Kitten hit it right on the nose: just copy your saves and pull any mods out of the GameData folder.

[Pecan]

Don't forget your precious "Screenshots"!

Otherwise as the others said:

KSP

- Gamedata (mods)

- saves (includes scenarios and tutorials so, if you want just take ...)

- - <the specific save(s) you want>

- Screenshots

(- thumbs has the small, thumbnail, pictures of your ships that are shown in the VAB/SPH load menu. These will get re-created automatically as you load the relevant vehicles though, so don't worry about it much).

[Guest Jack6251]

Thank you everyone!

Update: Confirmed, pasted into new KSP folder, game ran perfectly.

Edited August 1, 2015 by Jack6251
Update

[Gargamel]

You can run multiple installs of KSP like this too. If you want to try different recipes of Mod Soup, you can have different copies of KSP modded in different ways. Just clone over a new version of the original KSP folder and adjust your mods. I run older versions of KSP like this too. I have a 0.19 and a 0.23 version running, along with my 1.0.2 version.

[Laie]

You can run multiple installs of KSP like this too. If you want to try different recipes of Mod Soup, you can have different copies of KSP modded in different ways. Just clone over a new version of the original KSP folder and adjust your mods. I run older versions of KSP like this too. I have a 0.19 and a 0.23 version running, along with my 1.0.2 version.

Recently I started wondering if I really need to copy all the files, or if symlinks would do. Does anyone have any experience with this?

[Hobbes Novakoff]

If you've downloaded any craft off the forums, also don't forget your "Ships" folder

[Pecan]

If you've downloaded any craft off the forums, also don't forget your "Ships" folder

Congratulations; you're the first person I know who actually uses Ships.

I delete all the stock craft as soon as I install then copy the occassional file in there if I need it available to all saves. Downloaded vehicles just go in the save I want them for.

(For those who don't know ... KSP\Ships contains the Squad stock vehicles which are, basically, pants. Every time you click Load in the VAB/SPH these are the ones that clutter-up your nice list and are labelled '(stock)'. Delete them, but not the folder, to save yourself some annoyance. Conversely, if you put any *.craft files in there they'll be available in every game you create in that install).

[Hobbes Novakoff]

Well, you're the first person I know who doesn't use Ships, so I guess we're both equally ignorant

[Pecan]

Well, you're the first person I know who doesn't use Ships, so I guess we're both equally ignorant

That's interesting actually - but not enough to make a new thread for. The reason I don't is that the vehicles in each save I make have very different constraints (science, career or whatever) or purposes ('xxx' book, 'yyy' tutorial) so there are very, very few I share between saves.

Who else uses the 'Ships' folder in KSP, and what for?

[AG5BPilot]

You'll also want to move the Ships folder if you're using kOS since the "volume 0" scripts are stored under Ships/Scripts.

[CalculusWarrior]

I'd recommend moving the settings.cfg file as well, especially if you've made some extra changes (like the conics draw limit or screenshot supersampling), to save you the hassle of having to edit the file again.