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I'm sorry to create a new topic for this subject, but the previous topic where I described the problem was marked as "solved" so I'm not sure it will be taken into account.

Here's the problem:
I'm playing DROD 5.0.1.6060. I moved to another computer, exported my player, imported it on the new pc via a USB stick and all my challenges have disapeared (I didn't use the Cloud as I don't have a Carvelnet subscription).

There was no existing player profile on the new computer.

Here's some additional info. I copy pasted the DROD folder from my old pc to the new one without using the installer. It always worked for previous versions of DROD, so why not ? But here, my profiles were lost on the way (it also happened with DROD 4 so I guess there's been a change in the profile management as to that version). I exported/imported my profile and it seemed to work, except I actually lost all my completed challenges.

So I reinstalled the game with an all new installer and tried to import my old player profile on top of my new one. Still to no avail.
05-18-2015 at 09:15 AM
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For reference, this is the thread:

http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=38193&page=0#395407

I'm fairly sure I won't tackle this problem in 5.0.2 because, as stated in the bug-list thread, the aim of 5.0.2 is to stabilize the gameplay.

I'll keep this in mind for any further releases though :).

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I am unable to reproduce it on the latest development build. Here are the steps I've done:

1. Create a test hold that awards a challenge (attached)
2. Create a new player
3. Complete the challenge on the player
4. Confirm on Restore screen the challenge is awarded
5. Export player
6. Delete player
7. Import player
8. Confirm on Restore screen the challenge is awarded

Then I deleted DROD dat files and did the following:
1. Import the profile
2. Import the hold
3. Start the hold (but don't get the challenge)
4. On Restore screen confirm the challenge is NOT awarded (because saves were not imported due to the hold not being in the game when the player was imported)
5. Import player again
6. On Restore screen confirm the challenge is now awarded

@Kyp (and other who have the same problem) - perhaps the issue is you didn't reimport the profile after importing the hold?

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