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Originally Posted by SabreHawk
Have not lost a single save yet, and even got that message once yesterday after exiting about the save not being saved online appearing in the launcher.
After exiting you know how the launcher will still appear in the task bar for a bit, then close out? Well it didnt that time so I clicked on it and it maximized and thats when I saw the message in red saying the save was not saved online but that it would load up next time I run SH5 and sure enough it did and all was fine.
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I would have been happy to say that my experience was the same - I've seen the "saves not synchronised" message, and had no trouble ... until now.
So, last night (Sun 14th), I played for quite a few hours up until 20:00 GMT when the server dropped and I had a crash to desktop.
My last autosave was made at 19:45.
After 20 minutes the servers were back I was able to launch the game again. Save games all synched as normal. I went into "Load game" on the main menu, saw my last save was there from 19:45, then quit the game and decided to carry on today.
I just loaded the game, and the last save present is from 17:50, 2 hours before! In those lost 2 hours had I sunk 8 ships from a convoy!!
I don't quite understand the save game structure. Anybody figured it out yet? If I look in this folder:
My Docs\SH5\data\cfg\SaveGames
I see lots of folders, containing all the files required by a save game, the last one has a creation time of 17:50. All are about 7-8MB in size. Okay.
But in the folder:
My Docs\SH5\data\cfg\RichSavedGames
I see individual files of 9KB each, the last two being labelled:
2010-03-14-
17-50-35.sh5save
2010-03-14-
19-45-30.sh5save
So I have some remnant of my last save there, even if the main save folder for 19:45 has vanished. Given the small size, these must be the files that synchronise with UBI? No way is it synchronising the large folders since my connection is slow and it would take forever to upload 7MB each time I quit the game.
So, that being said, I can't understand why my 19:45 save game is lost now I have launched the game. When I launched it last night at 20:20, after being dropped out of the game due to the latest server attack, it was still present and correct!
Time to switch off the damn synchronisation. I took the usual attitude of "I will be fine, it won't affect me", but now I regret it
Good thing I make my own manual saves from time to time and don't rely on the autosave, else I'd be all the way back at base!!!