tburger: Timppu, what are my options for bulk downloads nowadays? This python script gogrepo is it working?
toxicTom: It's a bit PITA to set up, since the documentation is out of date. For instance you need Python 3 and html5lib, html2text and pyopenssl - the latter likes to give a "Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1" when installed through pip.
Once it works though - it works like a charm.
+1. Thank you Tom. I am going to have a stab at it, but not being tech-savvy, I fear I won't have much luck.
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Reposting this from another thread - sorry. It seems this was the better thread to post in, but it was hard to find the right one amongst so many.
If this has been discussed before, so be it. Too many threads, too little time.
Backing up all your GOG games is the ideal, but one backup is as good as no backup at all. It's like 'quis custodiet ipsos custodes'?
What do you do when your 6Tb Seagate HDD flatlines, as mine has just done, and no amount of work will wake it up., and that's where all your GOG games were stored. Of course I know I should have had a second backup, which, of course, i don't have. I have a few favourites backed up elsewhere, but by no means my whole library. Just didn't have the funds to get another big hard drive.
Excuse my cynicism - but although GOG blithely assures us that good days are ahead, that somehow makes me even more nervous about not having my games backed up.
Of course there is also the question of access to updates to games, if one even has them backed up up in the first place. I'm sure that's discussed somewhere also, but I just can't wade through all the threads about this. Would the developers, shown proof of a GOG purchase, allow you to download an update to a game?
I have read about a Python script for backing up your whole library, but I'm not very good at stuff like that, will try to find it. I know I tried it once before and didn't manage to get it to work - 'it's not you, it's me', as the saying goes.
But first I need to rob a bank, hard drives are expensive here with our useless currency.
Going off-topic, but that seems to be happening in all these threads, where are your saved games stored? Other than on my dead 6Tb Seagate?
Telika: I'm not really familiar enough with the python world of gogrepo, and I suspect that getting the hang of it would be more demanding (although interesting for its own sake, some day, but it takes a certain mood).
timppu: To set up gogrepo, there are certain steps you need to take, but when you have the instructions, it is quite easy and straightforward to set up.
+1 Thank you for the help. I will try, with some trepidation....