Lost my saved game due to corrupted world.dat

[Jay Parker]

I have been having problems losing games when my computer decides to crash on me. I thought I had worked around that problem, by having the game make a save after every game. I was about ready to go to the playoffs (one more month to go), the 3rd time in 6 seasons, and my computer crashed. When I tried to get back into the game, it's telling me that the files is something other than the OOTP version 25 and to use the import game from v. 24 feature. When I do it, it says, the file is corrupted. Isn't there someplace that I can go back to a particular game instead of the way it is trying to restore my game? This has really got me pissed off, as I have had nothing but troubles with this Vers. 25. If it isn't this, it's the way the came computes injuries to my players, which is way too high, even with durable players and plenty of rest. But, that's another story. I want my season restored where I left off. I need a workaround to fix this now.

[lizardkingjim]

Do you have a backup to restore from?

[Matt Arnold]

You can also often try to restore from the autosave:
You can typically restore from the autosave if there's an issue with the league. Instructions on doing that are below.

Some random corruption can happen from time to time for numerous reasons that are not caused by the game itself.

If you're having league files regularly corrupting though, there may be another issue that's causing that though that it would be worth checking out.

There are a few things that can cause corruption. This potentially includes unexpected system shutdowns or crashes especially while a league is saving, bad sectors on the hard drive the game is saved to, memory glitches on your computer (especially possible if the league is left open for very long periods of time without the game being shut down or restarted) or interference from other programs, especially disk cleaners or anti-virus programs.

Some of what you might do to prevent that from coming up again would be to regularly defrag your hard drive as well as check it for errors, don't leave OOTP open and running with a league loaded overnight or for long periods when you are not actually using the game, make sure to shut your computer off or at least restart it occasionally and also run as few other programs in the background at the same time as OOTP as possible. For programs that need to be running at the same time, like an anti-virus or firewall, it's a good idea to add OOTP to their whitelist and to create an exception for OOTP's directories if you use some sort of automated disk cleaner.


Restore from autosave instructions:

1) Open the game and on the start screen, click on Settings

2) Now click on the tab "Troubleshooting".

3) Click "Open folder containing saved games".

4) Now open up the league folder you're wanting to restore.

5) Then select all of the .dat files in the folder and back them up (just in case) by copying them to a temporary folder or creating a zipped file with them

6) Open the folder called "auto-save".

7) In there, select all of the ".dat" files and copy them to the league folder (the parent of the current folder) overwriting all of the ".dat" files in the league folder.

8) Now start the game and load your league.

[uruguru]

I wonder if "Restore previous auto-save" might be a useful option to avoid potential human error in this process.

[biggerme]

avoid having game saves in OneDrive, GDrive, sync issues are quite common. But if you do then there is slim hope that you can restore files from that cloud storage itself.