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[Vesh]

Ok, I decided to give a manual profile copy a try in Fable. Here's how it went down.

First the obvious stuff, I FTP'd in to XBMC (with FileZilla - I know a lot here prefer other clients, but I like it, does the job well enough for me) to the ever-familiar UDATA directory. Within the 4d53000d directory, there were the normal quasirandomly (or time/name hash? how are they done?) named profile directories and luckily there was the standard easily edittable SaveMeta.xbx. (One liner, profile name only.)

Copied the entire profile directory to my machine, renamed the directory from 00650073143A to 00650073143B, changed the line Name=Vesh to Name=Vesh2 in SaveMeta.xbx and reuploaded the entire renamed directory into the 4d53000d save directory.

Here's what happened.

I started the game and went to Continue as normal. Then there were three profiles displayed:

Vesh
Vesh2
Vesh2

At this point the Vesh profile still works as usual, but both of the Vesh2 profiles come up with the 'damaged save' popup. Since there were three profiles, I decided to see if there were now three directories. There were. There was now: 00650073143A, 00650073143B and a new one, 0073143A1779. Within the new 0073143A1779 directory there was only the 26 byte SaveMeta.xbx file identical to the one in my now erroneous 00650073143B directory. I simply copied the contents from 00650073143B into 0073143A1779, deleted 00650073143B and started the game again.

It seems to work. Both saves function independently as if they were created from new.

Now here are my questions:

Is this safe?

Is this common knowledge?

Can this procedure be used to copy profiles in any game that doesn't allow for it natively (or through the MS dash), or does Fable have the sole privilege of attempting to clean up after a damaged profile by making a new correctly named profile directory? OR is there already a program that can do this for me with the correct directory name?