Is there a simple way to save on my hard drive a private game, without making it public ?

I thought that you could just use the "Save to Disk" option when you have the game open. Is it disabled or something?

Yes, it's disabled.

* Open your game list
* Right-click on the game you're interested in
* Choose "Load (P) in..." [pick a room]
* Click on "Options"
* Choose "Save to Disk"

But isn't his game list public?

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I believe the list is public, the contents of the individual games are not.

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The contents of all of his games that I looked at are public, as are yours, as are mine ( both of you have too many games for me to look at all of them ). When looking at the list of games, there is column entitled 'viewable'. I've never seen anything but 'yes' in the entries in that column.
I suppose that if someone played a private game, it would be not viewable.

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Careless phrasing on my part. The contents of individual private games are not.

Most people I know don't play private games, but teachers often do.

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As I already said, if I do that, the "Save to disk" is disabled (which is not the case for a public game).

I can select "Load (without P) in...", but in this case, there's a warning telling the game will be public. And I don't want that (it was a game with a close friend and we were chatting about personal problems. Some people from my club know the account I used, and I don't want them to see the chatting).

Could some of you please try jdk's method (if you have private games, btw it was a private not ranked game, labelled R), it would show the problem comes from my configuration (Java applet, chrome, Ubuntu Lucid).

If it's not the case, I suppose it's a "design" bug

but its only public while you have it open in the room
its still private in your list.

save it quickly and close it from the room

or open it in a private room (just create a new private room)

It doesn't work. I can't open it publicly in a private room, and if I do it in a public one, I still can't save (menu disabled). Unless, I suppose, I agree to save it on KGS server, what I don't want.

are you using the web client, or the full downloadable client?

the web client (it's a little tricky to install the downloadable client on Linux, in such a way that it doesn't try to download it every time you launch it)..

ah, the web client doesn't allow saving games -- by design

and actually its quite easy to install the downloadable client in linux without having to re-download it every time it launches --- just download the cgoban.jar file directly and don't use javaws

(the link for the jar file should be in the jnlp file, I think)

I tried to install a more recent version of cgoban3. I downloaded http://files.gokgs.com/javaBin/cgoban.jar, but it seems to be version 3.4.5, which is obsolete (I have an error message when trying to connect to KGS).

you downloaded it recently?

I downloaded it just now and got version 3.5.0

Alternatively, if you really don't want to take a gamble on something going wrong and the game being made public, you could make a new game in CGoban and transcribe the game with the one on the server opened. It's somewhat time-consuming, but I also find it a good way to quickly review a game I played. (I have to use that for Tygem games I forgot to save right away, you can't seem to save them otherwise).

Around five minutes ago.

Did you download the linked files or just install through the KGS sites ?

Okay, problem solved, there was an old version in my download folder that I've mistaken with the new one, and I can save now !