Ubuntu 12.04 and game saves

[Epircus]

I'm coming across a problem that everytime i exit out of the game nothing is saved. I go to save+quit and then I'll go right back into the game and everything is lost including high scores. Is there something I'm doing incorrectly as far as game installlation? I'm not very adept in linux.

[Matthew]

Can you look for the folder:

~/.local/share/FasterThanLight

on your computer? If you open a file explorer, you can go to "Go" and then "Go to Location" and just copy and paste that path to go directly there (~ defers to your home directory and .local is normally hidden because of the . in its name).

If that folder doesn't exist, go to ~/.local/share/ and create one manually to see if that fixes the problem.

Further diagnosis help: Run the game from the command line to look for error messages. Open up a terminal and then navigate to where you installed the game: Type cd /the/path/you/extracted/FTL/to and then hit enter and run it by typing ./FTL and hitting enter

[Epircus]

I did what you said, I do have /.local/share/FasterThanLight/ the ony contents is prof.sav.

Heres what happenes from start up to me saving+quit

owner@ubuntu:/home$ dir /home/owner/FTL/
data FTL FTL_README.html
owner@ubuntu:/home$ cd /home/owner/FTL/
owner@ubuntu:~/FTL$ ./FTL
Loading Arch = amd64
No settings file found!
Initializing Crash Catcher...
Initializing Video
Video Initialized
Opengl version = 3.3.11627 Compatibility Profile Context
Starting audio library...
Audio Initialized!
Resource Preload: 54755
Initializing animations...
Animations Initialized!
Loading Ship Blueprints....
Blueprints Loaded!
Initializing Sound Data....
Generating world...
Loading achievements...
Loading score file...
No profile data!
Running Game!
Couldn't save data.No settings file found!
Couldn't save data.owner@ubuntu:~/FTL$

[moserine]

Just an FYI, I had this problem and just changed the permissions to allow user r/w of prof.sav and continue.sav in the ~/.local/share/FasterThanLight/ directory.

That fixed it!