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We've just released updated Windows installers to remedy save corruption and a related crash. Simply download and re-run the installer. It's fine to run over top of the existing install, and you do not need to re-download ndata. Windows (32-bit http://sourceforge.net/projects/naev/files/naev-0.6.0/naev-0.6.0-beta1-win32.exe/download
Windows (64-bit http://sourceforge.net/projects/naev/files/naev-0.6.0/naev-0.6.0-beta1-win64.exe/download
The issue affects all versions of Windows, as long as save compression is enabled (which is the default. You may also want to delete all backup saves, located in `%APPDATA naev saves ` with the extension **.ns.backup**, though this isn't required.

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