Guest jimp Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 I'm wanting to backup my profile on cod4, but can't find the folder where the profiles are stored...I know it's C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\Players\Profiles , but when I go do the COD4 folder, there is no players folder... Help? Thanks =]
WolfTiS Posted January 6, 2011 Member ID: 1130 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 28 Topic Count: 216 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2267 Content Per Day: 0.41 Reputation: 586 Achievement Points: 17291 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 12, 2021 Birthday: 04/02/1948 Posted January 6, 2011 Make sure you have it set to Show Hidden Files in folder views. Awards
WolfTiS Posted January 6, 2011 Member ID: 1130 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 28 Topic Count: 216 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2267 Content Per Day: 0.41 Reputation: 586 Achievement Points: 17291 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 12, 2021 Birthday: 04/02/1948 Posted January 6, 2011 Not sure then. It shows up in mine as WolfTiS. Awards
NightmareXI Posted January 6, 2011 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.47 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Posted January 6, 2011 maybe its in the "main" folder ? edit <<. lol no thats in cod2 Awards
Gump Posted January 6, 2011 Member ID: 1060 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 206 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1120 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 01/01/1970 Posted January 6, 2011 If your running with UAC on then it will be in: UserName/AppData/Local/Activision/Call of Duty 4.If your running with UAC off then it will be in the standard location where you were looking.
Merlin007 Posted January 6, 2011 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1125 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 8580 Content Per Day: 1.64 Reputation: 7547 Achievement Points: 76543 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 21 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Posted January 6, 2011 I am running windows 7 pro 64bit with UAC on. Location for the CoD4 players folder is here: C:\Users\#Username#\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare For 32bit, same as above but just as "Program Files" without the (x86). With UAC off, it is as Gump pointed out. I created myself a small utility program to backup and restore my CoD4 and WaW profiles which has come in handy already when I had to reinstall everything to a new drive. Always good to keep a backup. -Merlin007 Awards
PigDog Posted January 6, 2011 Member ID: 222 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 88 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3847 Content Per Day: 0.67 Reputation: 1628 Achievement Points: 25635 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 02/05/1968 Device: Windows Posted January 6, 2011 Merlin007 I am running windows 7 pro 64bit with UAC on. Location for the CoD4 players folder is here: C:\Users\#Username#\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare For 32bit, same as above but just as "Program Files" without the (x86). With UAC off, it is as Gump pointed out. I created myself a small utility program to backup and restore my CoD4 and WaW profiles which has come in handy already when I had to reinstall everything to a new drive. Always good to keep a backup. -Merlin007 Correct....that is where it should be. Awards
Ph4nt0m Posted January 7, 2011 Member ID: 1 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 39 Topic Count: 162 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1909 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 121 Achievement Points: 11489 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 4, 2020 Birthday: 06/28/1975 Posted January 7, 2011 Maybe this could be a handy feature to add to the downloader ? After all, it already knows where your profile data is stored from your settings Thoughts anyone?
simplemod Posted January 7, 2011 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Posted January 7, 2011 huh, i installed mine on drive d: and its in the players folder where he was looking at first. win7 x64, with UAC on. maybe it's just cause i installed it on a different drive from the OS.
Ph4nt0m Posted January 7, 2011 Member ID: 1 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 39 Topic Count: 162 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1909 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 121 Achievement Points: 11489 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 4, 2020 Birthday: 06/28/1975 Posted January 7, 2011 simplemod400 huh, i installed mine on drive d: and its in the players folder where he was looking at first. win7 x64, with UAC on. maybe it's just cause i installed it on a different drive from the OS. Yes it is, with UAC turned on, the program files folder is a protected folder, meaning that no software can write to the program files folder unless it is running with Admin rights, because you have installed on a different drive than your OS, the folder it has installed to is not protected by UAC
Merlin007 Posted January 7, 2011 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1125 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 8580 Content Per Day: 1.64 Reputation: 7547 Achievement Points: 76543 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 21 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Posted January 7, 2011 ph4nt0m Maybe this could be a handy feature to add to the downloader ? After all, it already knows where your profile data is stored from your settings Thoughts anyone? I think it would be a good addition to the downloader Ph4nt0m. Like you said, you are already saving the settings info if someone is installing other than the OS drive and this information is key as profile locations are different if one is not using UAC and/or installed other than the OS drive. A single program to update maps as well as backup and restore user profiles would be handy. If you guys do look at the feasibility of this, I would also include settings to allow for user specified backup locations. -Merlin007 Awards
Ph4nt0m Posted January 7, 2011 Member ID: 1 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 39 Topic Count: 162 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1909 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 121 Achievement Points: 11489 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 4, 2020 Birthday: 06/28/1975 Posted January 7, 2011 Merlin007 I would also include settings to allow for user specified backup locations.-Merlin007 Do you mean allowing the user to choose the location to backup from? or the location to save the backed up files/folder to?
Merlin007 Posted January 7, 2011 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1125 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 8580 Content Per Day: 1.64 Reputation: 7547 Achievement Points: 76543 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 21 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Posted January 7, 2011 Allow user to choose backup location to save to. For myself, my game is installed on the OS drive (C:) and with my simple program, I save a backup of the profile to my d drive. -Merlin007 Awards
Ph4nt0m Posted January 7, 2011 Member ID: 1 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 39 Topic Count: 162 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1909 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 121 Achievement Points: 11489 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 4, 2020 Birthday: 06/28/1975 Posted January 7, 2011 Yes thats quite easy to do, I'll have a think about this and probably include it in the next update of the downloader
Merlin007 Posted January 7, 2011 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1125 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 8580 Content Per Day: 1.64 Reputation: 7547 Achievement Points: 76543 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 21 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Posted January 7, 2011 Excellent. Look forward to seeing what you come up. -Merlin007 Awards
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