isuckatfm

I'm assuming you saved it to the right location. If you never changed the User Data Folder location it's

My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2008\db

on XP (off the top of my head can't remember what the Vista equivalent is).

Make sure the name of the xml inside the folder containing your database has the same name as said folder. For example if you created a database and saved it to the user directory it should appear as a folder, let's say 'My Database'. When you open that folder there should be an xml file called 'My Database'.

If the xml file name does not match the folder name exactly, then the game will not pick it up as an option. Once those two match the database will appear and it's name in the drop down menu will be the same as the string in the xml:-

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> &lt;string id="name" value="empty database folder"/&gt; </pre>

Off topic but you might want to install the patch as it makes for a better gaming experience. Just my opinion though .

isuckatfm

Ignore the value="empty database folder" part. The name of your database will appear exactly as it is written in the quotes part of the value identifier.

So if you create a database called 'Ghost 07' it should do the following

1. create a folder in My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2008\db called 'Ghost 07'.
2. create an xml in that folder called 'Ghost 07'.
3. create a string in that xml that looks like <pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">string id="name" value="Ghost 07"</pre>.

I hope that's clear now as the 'empty database folder' part was probably confusing.

So if the folder name and xml name don't match, change one or the other so that they do.
Let us know if that is the issue and if changuing it works.

Ghost_07

The name of the xml file does match the name of the folder so i dont think thats the problem. And the menu with the drop down thing still dosen't show up.....

Ghost_07

OMG IT FINALLY WORKED! sorry for the caps but i had been trying to get it to work since like for ever! I deleted every Sports Interactive folder and re installed the game and it worked now finally!