past caring Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Survival mode - custom settings. I wanted to check whether a dead wolf I came across was one I had fought the day before - so entered the journal and the stats tab. Scrolled down to the "wolves killed" data - and at that point got called away from the PC. I knew I'd be an hour so exited to the in-game menu (Back to game, Badges, Options, Quit) to pause time. When I returned I went 'back to game' but found myself stuck in the stats tab - I could scroll up and down but not navigate to other parts of the journal or get back to the game. If I pressed the B button (I'm using an XBox 360 controller) I got a message along the lines - "Are you sure you want to quit? Any unsaved progress will be lost". In the end I opted for that as I couldn't get back to the game. But now that whole game has vanished. Any of the available saves have me in Milton House with only a few days survived - I was in Quonset Gas Station with about 150 days under my belt before this happened. And I certainly did not hit any option to delete a save. Any ideas? I don't even know where to locate the save game files on my PC.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb1978 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Saved games are located in C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Hinterland\TheLongDark Do you see anything in that folder that looks like it could be your game, based on the modified date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
past caring Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, ajb1978 said: Saved games are located in C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Hinterland\TheLongDark Do you see anything in that folder that looks like it could be your game, based on the modified date? Thanks. Yes - there is a sandbox 11 with yesterday's date (which is also the largest file in the folder - which probably makes sense as it was my longest/most successful run). But no idea what to do with it though? ETA: It doesn't show up as a 'load' option in the game menu. Edited May 13, 2020 by past caring Update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb1978 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Well if it's not showing up as an option at all it might be a corrupted save. But if it were me I'd try to trick the system before calling it a loss. Try creating a new sandbox game, then immediately exit. Delete it, rename your old save to match the new one, then restart the game and see if you can load it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
past caring Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 @ajb1978 - belated thanks for this, though it didn't actually work. I've just decided to crack on with a new game....oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
past caring Posted June 3, 2020 Author Share Posted June 3, 2020 @ajb1978 - oddly, it has now 'worked' in dome wierd way. So thanks. After setting up a few 'test' games yesterday and then choosing to load one of them, rather than simply resume, I noticed there were suddenly two 'Sandbox 2' games - and one of them was the lost save. And it worked fine. I learned something else though, I think - save points (i.e. after sleeping or entering a building) don't actually register or save unless the game exits normally? I renamed the above 'Sandbox 2' and played about another 5 or 6 days of that game yesterday (so plenty of save points) but left the game paused last night whilst forgetting I had scheduled a Windows update. The renamed game had gone this morning, 'resume, took me to my last 'test' game mentioned above and I was back with two 'Sandbox 2' games to choose from in the load options - and yesterday's progress had gone. All now OK though as I exited normally after renaming the save this morning and it does now appear both as a 'resume' or 'load' game option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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