Offline Manual for Game Backup Monitor
PC games have an annoying habit of saving your countless hours of progress anywhere and everywhere on your system. A lot of them also only keep one copy of your gamesave.
Game Backup Monitor is the solution: an excellent tool to backup and restore gamesaves for games on your PC.
It has grown in features over the years, and I saw a need for offline documentation and instructions on how to use this powerful tool.
Note: Newer versions of Windows 10 might not like the unsigned CHM (Windows Help) file. To fix this, Right Click>>Properties>>General>>Security: Unblock
- I used M$ Edgium Dev (any browser should do) to
Ctrl+SSave the following official GBM webpages as split HTML:
- Rendered Readme.md from the GitHub
- About
- Contribute
- Manual, split into pages
- F.A.Q
- I used WinCHM Pro to reconstruct the HTML. Mirror available here (Base64):
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- All image resources were saved to
\GBM_files\ - All page HTML starting with
<div class="pageSection">and ending with</div><!--Include the Footer-->(or for the Manual,</div>before the next<div class="pageSection">) were copied from the HTML source pages and pasted between WinCHM's<body> </body>tags. - The theme was started by copying a built-in WinCHM theme, then removing everything and replacin.g it with CSS and asset references from the
<head> </head>and header graphics/text in the Manual page. - WinCHM can then render CHM Windows help files, and nicely formatted PDFs from the project. Project file is Game_Backup_Monitor_v1.2.4_Help.wcp
The manual will need updating periodically, with releases of Game Backup Monitor.
MikeMaximus is the author of Game Backup Monitor and its website. I, Darthagnon, copied the website content, and made as few changes as possible, preserving the original layout. I only added and edited some hyperlinks, and collated all useful information regarding GBM that I thought should be in a manual and I would need for offline reference. I don't intend copyright infringement, just to help the GBM project.