Thank you for taking the time to reply, i really appreciate it.
Saving the file - this is what I've been doing
1/Save editor data as
2/ users
3/ public *
4/ documents
5/ Sports Interactive **
6/ Football manager 24 ***
7/ editor data
8/ i then name my file (at present i have 2 test files in here, both of which contain minor changes like changing the DoB for a few players)
all of this is done in fmf format
* at this junction, in addition to the folder of 'public' (which i select), i also have the options of A/ default user (but there are no further folders here) and B/ a file with my name go it, but when opened it appears to have system files with no relevance to FM.
** i also have the option of 'editor 24', which then has the file skins, but there is nothing further. I choose Football manager 24
*** at this point there are 2 other options - 'games' and 'skins', both of which have no further folders, so i choose editor data
Starting the game.
When I go to the database option button in the top right hand corner, the only option that appears is the original database, not the 2 named files I've made from points 7 and 8 above.
it looks like I'm not saving the files in the right place - but having read on-line instructions i don't know what I'm doing wrong - my above points of 1-8 all appear to be correct.
Any ideas?