Unknown error?

[TheBoy]

So my game crashed earlier today and I decided to take a break and when I came back my character was blank on the selection screen and had "(unknown error)" before the name. Help me please.

[76561198228000512]

you need to replace the character with a backup. make a backup of the backup too in case the world also got corrupted by the crash. Terraria keeps a few automatic backups by default in case you don't paranoidly place copies of the saves elsewhere.

1) CLOSE THE GAME and go to your save's folder (on windows should be at Documents\My Games\Terraria) and make a copy of the "Players" and "Worlds" folders elsewere in case you mess up with the next steps

2) delete the .plr file with the same name as the "(unknown error)" character and rename the .plr.bak file with the same name as the file you just deleted to remove the ".bak" part from its name (eg: name.plr.bak >>> name.plr)

3) try to play the game. if the world is also corrupted (hopefully there should be some indication without need to open the world) CLOSE THE GAME AGAIN, go to the "Worlds" folder and reppeat step 2, but with the .wld and .wld.bak files, try again with .wld.bak2, etc. if the 1st backup fails

I hope your backups are still good. good luck!

[TheBoy]

Originally posted by OnixDark:

you need to replace the character with a backup. make a backup of the backup too in case the world also got corrupted by the crash. Terraria keeps a few automatic backups by default in case you don't paranoidly place copies of the saves elsewhere.

1) CLOSE THE GAME and go to your save's folder (on windows should be at Documents\My Games\Terraria) and make a copy of the "Players" and "Worlds" folders elsewere in case you mess up with the next steps

2) delete the .plr file with the same name as the "(unknown error)" character and rename the .plr.bak file with the same name as the file you just deleted to remove the ".bak" part from its name (eg: name.plr.bak >>> name.plr)

3) try to play the game. if the world is also corrupted (hopefully there should be some indication without need to open the world) CLOSE THE GAME AGAIN, go to the "Worlds" folder and reppeat step 2, but with the .wld and .wld.bak files, try again with .wld.bak2, etc. if the 1st backup fails

I hope your backups are still good. good luck!

It didn't work :(

[theworld]

There are 2 types of people:

1)Those who make backups.

2)Those who will make backups.

[DiamondFox0324]

I had a character that has nearly 200 hours that I log onto to see Unknown Error, I have tried almost everything I found. My character never had a backup file for some reason. I think my character had this happen due to my game crashing twice while me trying to load into a world. I don't know if anyone still reads this post, but if you know what to do, I would be delighted to hear what I can do.

[GrumpyGorillaz]

Originally posted by OnixDark:

you need to replace the character with a backup. make a backup of the backup too in case the world also got corrupted by the crash. Terraria keeps a few automatic backups by default in case you don't paranoidly place copies of the saves elsewhere.

1) CLOSE THE GAME and go to your save's folder (on windows should be at Documents\My Games\Terraria) and make a copy of the "Players" and "Worlds" folders elsewere in case you mess up with the next steps

2) delete the .plr file with the same name as the "(unknown error)" character and rename the .plr.bak file with the same name as the file you just deleted to remove the ".bak" part from its name (eg: name.plr.bak >>> name.plr)

3) try to play the game. if the world is also corrupted (hopefully there should be some indication without need to open the world) CLOSE THE GAME AGAIN, go to the "Worlds" folder and reppeat step 2, but with the .wld and .wld.bak files, try again with .wld.bak2, etc. if the 1st backup fails

I hope your backups are still good. good luck!

I tried this and it didn't work
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