# Civ III: deleting old game saves **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 9, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civ-iii-deleting-old-game-saves/646619 "2013-01-09T12:11:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civ-iii-deleting-old-game-saves/646619/1 "2013-01-09T12:11:26Z")
In the first edition of Civ III, I could delete my game saves from some menu. However, I have Civ III Complete, and if I want to delete game saves, I have to search my actual computer for .sav files, and then delete them. Am I missing some trick here? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civ-iii-deleting-old-game-saves/646619/2 "2013-01-09T17:25:24Z")
I have the first edition of the game, and one of the first settings I changed was to make it use the OS’s open file interface instead of the one built into the game, because the built-in one was so clunky as to be practically unusable. So my advice would be to just go looking for the .sav files. They’re not hard to find: Unless you’ve been going out of your way to put them in weird places, they’re in a subfolder called “Saves” within your Civilization III folder. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civ-iii-deleting-old-game-saves/646619/3 "2013-01-09T19:16:54Z")
My Civ III Complete doesn’t seem to have subfolders that are labeled as such, though the first edition did…I’ll poke around some more.