wesnoth
Add new Option to Delete Generic turn saves at the end of scenario, just like auto saves are deleted.
Describe the desired feature
by that I mean any save file which contains the string 'Turn'
Reason: if you have the replay saved, you can get to any point of the scenario anyway, so those saves are not needed anymore. and if those saves were needed, the player can just the name to not include 'Turn' if he really didnt want the save to be deleted.
For now I manually delete them from time to time. they seem to take significant space if I accidentally forgot the uncompressed saves option.
Doesn't seem particularly sensible to automatically delete manual saves. Perhaps more useful would be to make it easier to manually delete a bunch of saves. Currently you can only delete one at a time.
Doesn't seem particularly sensible to automatically delete manual saves. Perhaps more useful would be to make it easier to manually delete a bunch of saves. Currently you can only delete one at a time.
you are not forcing the player to select the option though? plus imo it should be nested in the delete auto_saves option.
also about your suggestion: I cant argue against this feature. I might actually use it, but only in the cases of deleted handful of saves. but probably not if I needed to delete 100 of save files.
Currently what I do to clean up my save directory, I just open it in file explorer and filter "Turn" . However, the feature I requested will simply make me need to clean up less often. the important saves I name them "scenario End" without turn.
How do we measure if these two features will be useful to enough people to merit the change?
The current auto delete function based on a translatable string is bad enough. I would not extend that concept to manual saves with who knows what in their name.
Manually filtering on whatever sub-string you want and then allowing to delete all matches is much more obvious and under direct control of the user to not lead to accidentally deleting actually wanted saves. It's also more generally useful since you can likewise delete all saves of one campaign or all auto-saves when you didn't have the option on or switched language etc.