Dale, Thanks to your help, and the help of other board members, I'm really enjoying CB, and the new horizons it opens to this long-time boardgamer.
I consider myself a knowledgeable computer user, but I seem to be vexed by the filename conventions of CB, and need to ask for help here. For my trial game, I downloaded and am using Bitter Woods Deluxe gamebox. I unzipped all the files into a folder within the CB folder. I loaded a scenario file, made some slight modifications (added the destroyed bridge markers and deleted the optional leaders), and saved it as a game (.GAM) file. All was well. I sent that .gam file to my prospective opponent. I later opened the .gam file, and then made my moves as the German player turn 1. I saved the game, and the next evening came back and did all the combats. A this point I saved the move file (cleverly named German turn 1.GMV), and then saved the game. I sent the .GMV file to my opponent. Since he is also learning CB and PBEM, I had the idea of playing out some of the game solitaire (one of the great boons of CB). So I made a new folder within the CB folder named "Bitter Woods Solo", and copied ALL the files from the original BW folder into this one, figuring this way I could play a second game without affecting the first one. So, last night, I wanted to do the Allied player turn. My understanding is that while I could open the saved game file, I wanted to make sure I understood the relationship between the .gam and .gmv files, so I opened the ORIGINAL .gam I had sent to my opponent. Sure enough, there was the game in it's initial start condition. I then clicked "Load Recorded Move File", and the dialog box opened and showed the "German Turn 1.GMV" file I had saved. I selected it, and tried to open. I got this error "Not a Move File". Hmmmmm. I tried a couple of variations of this, with same result. So I then loaded the saved game file from when I completed german turn 1, and yes, as expected, the game came up in it's initial state, but all the VCR controls worked, and I stepped through the german player turn exactly as it is supposed to work. So what did I do wrong with the .GMV file? I expect my opponent will have the same error I had. Thanks for your help, Byron
