Refresh my memory of a way to fix corrupt saves

Blacklight · 11-30-11, 07:54 PM

All of a sudden, out of nowhere, every save game on my extensive career went corrupt. I tried making the SH3 folder in My Documents read only and that didn't work. I remember a long while back a trick that fixed this for me the last time this happened that involved copying or renaming some file. For the life of me, I can't remember specifically what file or files to do this to. It was posted here, but I'll be damned if I can locate it. Anyone remember how to do this ?

Jimbuna · 11-30-11, 08:00 PM

Go to your SH3 folder in MyDocs and add a letter eg. 'x' to the save title.

You can delete the 'x' later if you wish but I've never saw the point.

Blacklight · 11-30-11, 09:12 PM

Crap. It doesn't want to work. I think the whole career is gone.

Jimbuna · 12-01-11, 03:27 AM

If you can see the files, take them out and start a new career.....return to port, save the game, return the save files and reboot the game.

Blacklight · 12-01-11, 08:22 PM

That didn't work either. I think it's a lost cause. The whole career went belly up.

Captain Nemo · 12-02-11, 05:41 AM

Did this problem occur during 1943 by any chance? If so others have also experienced something similar see http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=189886 .

Nemo

Jimbuna · 12-02-11, 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Blacklight

That didn't work either. I think it's a lost cause. The whole career went belly up.

That's tough mate

SNAKE1937 · 12-02-11, 05:31 PM

As you come to a place to save( on the water , not under it) make your REAL SAVE then return and make atlease one FALSE SAVE ( I use XXX for my first one then XXXXX for my next one ) then exit.

When you return to load try the last save, it may work, so far for me the first one ( in this case XXX ) loads.

When you save DO NOT use the same words such as Tanker , cargo ship,
or what ever. I do not know but it seems like a simular issue in SH4 of over writing the saves. That will leave you in a big wide Ocean all alone.

Good luck. SNAKE1937

11-30-11, 07:54 PM	#1
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	Refresh my memory of a way to fix corrupt saves All of a sudden, out of nowhere, every save game on my extensive career went corrupt. I tried making the SH3 folder in My Documents read only and that didn't work. I remember a long while back a trick that fixed this for me the last time this happened that involved copying or renaming some file. For the life of me, I can't remember specifically what file or files to do this to. It was posted here, but I'll be damned if I can locate it. Anyone remember how to do this ? __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

11-30-11, 08:00 PM	#2
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Go to your SH3 folder in MyDocs and add a letter eg. 'x' to the save title. You can delete the 'x' later if you wish but I've never saw the point. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-30-11, 09:12 PM	#3
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	Crap. It doesn't want to work. I think the whole career is gone. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

12-01-11, 03:27 AM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	If you can see the files, take them out and start a new career.....return to port, save the game, return the save files and reboot the game. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-01-11, 08:22 PM	#5
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	That didn't work either. I think it's a lost cause. The whole career went belly up. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !" Last edited by Blacklight; 12-02-11 at 02:58 AM.

12-02-11, 05:41 AM	#6
Captain Nemo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 1,144 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	Did this problem occur during 1943 by any chance? If so others have also experienced something similar see http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=189886 . Nemo __________________ "I'm afraid there is no disguising the fact that King's obsession with the Pacific and the Battle of Washington cost us dear in the Battle of the Atlantic". Sir John Slessor GCB, DSO, MC, DL AOC-in-C Coastal Command RAF ___________________________________________

12-02-11, 05:31 PM	#8
SNAKE1937 Loader Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Colorado, summer/ Arizona, winter Posts: 90 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Here is what I wrote a very long time ago and it still works As you come to a place to save( on the water , not under it) make your REAL SAVE then return and make atlease one FALSE SAVE ( I use XXX for my first one then XXXXX for my next one ) then exit. When you return to load try the last save, it may work, so far for me the first one ( in this case XXX ) loads. When you save DO NOT use the same words such as Tanker , cargo ship, or what ever. I do not know but it seems like a simular issue in SH4 of over writing the saves. That will leave you in a big wide Ocean all alone. Good luck. SNAKE1937