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Zinc Avenger:
Seems like a silly question to me, but its stumped me. I ran a week-long zerobot sim with regular saves of the "best" bot. Naturally the program gave an "out of memory" error and crashed, leaving me with a tantalisingly frozen screen listing a non-zero number of births.

Aha! I thought, I shall simply start a new sim with the "best bot" just before the sim crashed! Unfortunately, I can't find a way for DB to import anything but .txt or .org files, when the "best bot" is saved as a .dbo file.

Am I just being thick?

EricL:
Edit-> Insert Organism.


Unlike the txt files which contain only bot DNA for a single bot, DBO files are binary files that contain a lot of living organism state like mutation rates, mutation history, age, parent info, number of offspring, ties, nrg, body, shell, slime, etc. and in the case of multi-bots, can contain many bot 'cells', not just one.

dbo files are also what teleporters use, so you can teleport it in also.

EricL:
Also, I'd be curious to know if the out of memory error was becuase you filled up the hard drive or whether you think there's a memory leak of some sort.  Thanks.

Numsgil:
If you're saving simulation files periodically, you'll be filling up your hard drive fast.  Again, it relates to those pesky mutation details.

EricL:

--- Quote from: Numsgil ---If you're saving simulation files periodically, you'll be filling up your hard drive fast.  Again, it relates to those pesky mutation details.
--- End quote ---
Which is why I added the options to strip mutation details in autosaves and also to only preserve the last 10 autosaves.  

And just for completeness, I added an option to only preserve the last 10 autosaved 'best bots' for 2.42.9.

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