Restoring Saved Region

[Banana 0]

hi, as the title states i need help putting my region back into play.  the computer i play on isn't mine and that person  was gonna  reinstall windows.  i told em to just save the regions file in the sim city file but when it was restored, none of the cities were there!  i checked the backed up region and all it said was "new city" for all of em   what was wierd is that i started a new city, checked the regions in the new installed sim city and it wasn't there...i dunno whats going on, is it possible its still there....somehow...the only mod i was using with all the regions i had was the network mod, i think it's #1 still...anyway is there someway, somehow to retrieve the lost cities, i remember reading about how when you download new regions you have to press like control/alt/shift y or something like that, could that be the case here? or is all gone plz help!

[Imprezza05 1]

Borry to be the holder of bad news but if the person reinstalled windows... i'm sure that everything would have been deleted.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

'Fraid that's so.  Next time you need a back up, do it yourself, and check it to see the stuff is there.  You should use a DVD-RW, as some of this stuff is pretty big.

You should save:

My Documents\SimCity 4\Regions

My Documents\Simcity 4\Plugins

Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Plugins

As you can see, this is not very straightforward.  If the person who owns this machine hasn't set up a separate userid for you, he/she should.