Minecraft Savior v1.4

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v1.4 Changelog: 12/24/2010

Support for backup/restore of a whole server folder. (Server folder must contain a 'server.properties' file.)
Auto-location of local Minecraft Save Directory for Windows XP and Mac users.
Menu bar added, featuring File, About, Help, and Feedback menus.

Minecraft Savior (MCS) is a Java Swing-based GUI for Minecraft players to backup and restore their valuable saves and servers. I designed it to be extremely easy to use, and after you've run the program once, you can backup or restore in just one click!

When you run a backup of a world in the MCS utility, it compresses your world save into a .zip file in the directory of your choice. Minecraft saves can get pretty large, so compressing your backups will definitely save space on your disk.

Do you use Dropbox? Take your Minecraft saves anywhere! Just tell MCS to use a backup directory of your choice within your Dropbox folder. Then when you hop on another machine, just open up MCS and restore from that synced directory!

MCS auto-locates your local Minecraft 'saves' directory, remembers the location of your backups, and remembers the world you backed up most recently to make future uses of the utility that much more convenient.

All it takes to run MCS is a Java Virtual Machine, and anyone that has Minecraft has a JVM! This utility is entirely cross-platform, it will work on Windows, Mac, or whatever Linux distro you are running.

IMPORTANT!

Please consult the MCS Documentation page before using the application.

Also, the MCS utility creates a file called "Settings" with a .mcs extension. This just stores your most recent backup directory and also the last world you backed up. This file is not necessary for the program to run, but make sure you keep it in the same directory as the utility so it is easier to backup and restore your worlds.

If you encounter any bugs, please let me know and I will try and fix them in a future release.

Licensed under the GNU GPLv3, Minecraft Savior is free software and will stay that way. You, as the user, are free to:

use the utility for any purpose
alter it to suit your needs
share the utility with people you know
share the changes you make

Just make sure you take a look at the GNU GPLv3 before you get started (if you want to modify the utility). If you decide to modify it, please cite me as the original author of the code!