There are two ways to avoid a Puppy picking up a single SaveFile pup save file on a frugal installation. This allows you to make a fresh pup save file when you shutdown/reboot. It is also useful to back up the savefile which can be done by copying as long as it isn't in use.

1. Make a dummy save-file.

for example,

if original save-file is called lupusave-name.xfs

make a file blank dummy file, calling the new one something like lupusave-dummy.xfs

ensure that the naming convention is retained, for Puppy Lucid 5.2x lupusave-<name>.<2/3>fs

2. Reboot, Puppy it will give the opinion of which save-file to load, and also the opinion 0 - not to load any save-file.

Depending on your installation, if you have the Puppy boot screen

it allows different settings to be used:-

puppy pfix=ram

If you are using a bootloader such as Grub, you can add another option, and configure it to use this parameter.

SaveFile save-files

BootParameters