v0.3.0 - the Organizer

Before you update

• Back up your save folder by hand first, as always before a big update.
• Older versions cannot open a vault this version has upgraded. A brand-new vault made by
  v0.3.0 is in the new format from the start. If you use the same vault on several PCs, update
  every PC to v0.3.0 first.
• Your settings, your vault and your saves are kept when you update.

What is new

The Organizer tab (Ctrl+1; the old view is still there on Ctrl+2)

• Every save file is one line, whether it is live or only in the vault. Open a line to see all
  its versions.
• Live markers show which Steam or Xbox slot holds each save. Columns show what is in the save:
  story and Atlas progress, bases, ships, freighter, companions, play time, galaxy and more.
• Filter chips (Live, Vault only, Steam, Xbox, On both, Has note, Pinned, No backup yet,
  Expedition), Find, sorting and a column chooser.
• No backup yet marks a version that exists only in a live slot, so you know what a
  backup would save.

Moving saves

• Move to live, Replace with, Swap and Keep a copy in the vault now. You can
  also drag a version onto a slot.
• The save being replaced always goes into the vault first. Every move is checked, and put back
  exactly if anything is wrong. Each move has its own Undo.
• The app never empties a slot. Where a slot would end up empty, it shows you the steps to do it
  yourself.
• A move that was interrupted (power cut, crash) is finished or put back the next time you start
  the app.
• After you play, the app checks whether Steam Cloud or Xbox sync put the old save back, and
  tells you.

Steam <-> Xbox

• You can now move a save between Steam and Xbox / Game Pass in Move to live. The save data is
  copied unchanged, only the small info file is converted, and you confirm once because it is
  another account. The game takes ownership of your bases at your first save there. Tested in
  the real game in both directions.

History, Compare, Notes

• History shows how a save file's versions follow each other and what changed between them
  (bases, ships, progress, galaxy, ...).
• Compare puts two versions side by side.
• Notes: a note per save file (every earlier revision kept), and a label, comment and lock
  per version. Notes live in the vault, never in your saves.
• Pin a save so the app never suggests its slot for another save.
• If the app linked two saves wrongly, you can say where a version comes from, or Combine or
  Split save files. All of these can be undone, and none of them touches a save.

Smaller vault

• Tools > Vault upgrade moves an existing vault to the new format once: each file is kept
  only once, so a backup that changed one slot costs one slot, not the whole folder. A full copy
  of your vault is made first, and Undo the vault upgrade goes back.
• Tools > Free old backup folders then gives the disk space of the old folders back, after
  a full check. It shows what it would free and asks first. Every backup stays listed.
• Import of another vault that is already in the new format (for example a copy on a USB
  drive) adds only what is new. Importing it again adds nothing.

After a game update

• A save written by a newer game than the app knows is marked and is never moved: the app
  refuses rather than guess.
• nmsvault-cli selftest checks, without writing anything, that the app still understands every
  live save and every version in your vault.

Also

• Dark theme: on Windows the menu bar now follows the dark theme too (Alt, F10 and the
  underlined letters work as before).
• Hover a chip, marker or column title for a plain-words explanation.
• The command line has the same features: saves, versions, history, place, swap,
  keep, undo, ops, recover, note, pin, lineage, index, store, selftest.
  Run nmsvault-cli <command> --help for each. The command-line program is now called
  nmsvault-cli (nmsvault-cli.exe on Windows), so it is clear which file is which.

Downloads

• Windows: NMSSaveVault-Setup-v0.3.0.zip - extract it and run NMSSaveVault.exe (or
  install.bat for shortcuts). The
  launcher is the Python Software Foundation's own signed program, renamed; that signature is
  Python's, not a signature over this app.
• Linux / Steam Deck (x86_64): NMSSaveVault-v0.3.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz - tried on Linux
  for this release; still young, so back up your saves by hand first.
• macOS (Apple Silicon): NMSSaveVault-v0.3.0-macos-arm64.tar.gz - never run on a Mac yet.
  Back up your saves by hand first, and please report how it went.
• Xbox / Game Pass stays Windows-only.