Opening old character files...
 

Hi everyone!

I have some old character files since 2012 that I really need to open and look at. The problem for me is when I do that then all the characters are at lvl 1. If I increase the lvls then I need to do the regular lvl up again. I don't recall how I had built them and this is why I want to check it out now.

Anyone know how I can overcome this. I downloaded the latest version of Hero Lab and reassigned my old license.

/Thrilled

I have no idea if this suggestion will work, but... Try opening the .por in a program that handles .rar files, like the forever available WinRAR, if you can see any folder named statblocks_*something* you might be lucky enough to find the information you need so you can rebuild the character.

NOTE: stablocks_*something* is what I use for Pathfinder RPG, a different system might use a different name.

Thanks I will see what it makes... I am also using Pathfinder for a reference...

FWIW, early early portfolios were not ZIP files, but were basically just XML files, still parseable.

Long time since I posted this....

I am still trying to figure out my progression on some old created characters.

I can open the .por files however they are all at lvl 1 and I know when I created them I made them completed until lvl 20.

How can I find out the progression I had planned for them?

/Mikael

Can you share it with us? It might have Advance entries in the HTML.

thrilled, is there anywhere else you might have saved different versions of these characters? Could these be the level 1 versions and the level 20 versions are saved elsewhere? The way Hero Lab stores information, it couldn't have deleted just those levels and everything associated with them and still leave a level 1 character that loads without errors.