Lost your Save? Look No Further (Old)

[tommohawkaction]

Hello,

I've been getting a few messages mentioning you've accidentally deleted your save file, or that the new update broke your save file, so I'm writing this to hopefully help those in need.

Note: If you accidentally deleted your save usually this would be unrecoverable but if you had this save previously before v0.6.0 and played on v0.6.0 then there is a chance you can recover it.

Step One

First thing first, you need a copy of your old save, this will be the basis of recovering the save file (Don't worry v0.6.0+ made a backup of your save file before we converted to the save slot system), this can be located here

Path: %AppData%\LocalLow\RubberBandGames\Wobbly Life\Save\STEAMID\GameSaves\Backup_Old

Step Two

Make a backup of this folder 'Backup_Old; there are no other backups, so once this goes there is no way of recovering your save

Step Three

Okay so you will want to do the following,

Head to this path Path: %AppData%\LocalLow\RubberBandGames\Wobbly Life\Save\STEAMID\GameSaves

This is the root of all player saves and where we save the slot system,
inside the GameSaves folder you will want to create a new folder called

SaveSlot_1 Note: You can replace the number to any number up to a max of 5

Step Four

Inside the 'SaveSlot_1' folder you will want to copy everything which is inside Backup_Old and paste it in there

Step Five (Important)

Okay now that you have all your old Save files in this folder you will want to do some renaming, as we have changed the layout of our save system

So you will want to replace each file name with the corresponding:

SystemPlayer => PlayerData_1
LocalPlayer_2 => PlayerData_2
LocalPlayer_3 => PlayerData_3
LocalPlayer_4 => PlayerData_4

Step Six

You need one more file which is the SlotInfo.sav

I've prepared one which you can download here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CCmenSVwppqHuJk2QsQrWd-Tk7IXOf6w/view?usp=sharing

Once downloaded, put the SaveInfo.sav into the '/SaveSlot_1/' folder

Note: You technically don't need this, but if you don't then it will look like the save file is empty, but once you play and exit it will look normal

Step Seven

That's all, launch the game and hopefully you will see your Save

[Ovix]

i lost my save file with everything on it and now I'm depressed I had so many items and spent months grinding i tried this and it it didn't work

[sea doggo]

this did not work for me

[GetGAMING]

i dont have a backup_old file

[Flo]

Hello, i have found the Folder and copied the files. But the Backup seems to be older (04.06). I'm missing my gadget hat and some other items. :(
What can i do ? I made a backup of all files before copying.

[Fr3zzy]

I cant find Backup_Old does it means i cant get my acc back? ); bc i got there the sword from the knight wobbly quiz hat all presents all my money my pet?pls say theres a other method ): im really sad

[Pusheen]

Just happened to my daughter. Lost all progress and last back up file on PC April. Checked steam cloud and that also only had April back up. When she loaded up it had deleted her progress and showed her tutorial. When exited as she thought she had selected wrong world this was then back up to steam cloud. This seems like a big error with the game that a save can be deleted for no reason and with no frequent back ups months of time wasted. Despite April recovery she's so upset she doesnt want to play anymore.

[[34TH]Cpt Clutch]

thanks, the new update confused my son and now he deletes the saves and has like 6 different accounts now lol

[ErfWermJay]

Unfortunately this fix doesnt work. My 7 year old lost his progress this morning and he had pretty much everything there was to get. Im good with computers, and there is no old_backup safe folder. The only 2 backups we have are the 2 accounts he created today trying to figure out what happened. Help!

I see a dev responded 2 months ago. Can we get an update please? We love wobbly life.

Edit : Ended up starting over. Hes enjoying finding everything again, so all good, but it would be cool if this didnt happen in the future for sure. Update is great btw!

[Ellogrothon]

Originally posted by ErfWerm:

Unfortunately this fix doesnt work. My 7 year old lost his progress this morning and he had pretty much everything there was to get. Im good with computers, and there is no old_backup safe folder. The only 2 backups we have are the 2 accounts he created today trying to figure out what happened. Help!

I see a dev responded 2 months ago. Can we get an update please? We love wobbly life.

Edit : Ended up starting over. Hes enjoying finding everything again, so all good, but it would be cool if this didnt happen in the future for sure. Update is great btw!

Same here :(
All saves of the last two months are gone. All the stuff in the museum ... my kid won't stop crying. I was able to restore the backup as in the instructions, but it's from July. Do you have any way to restore progress? He had played through / finished the last backup?

[Matjanko]

I have the same problem as Rex so if anyone could help i would apriciate it(problem i cant Save my game with Save /exit button pls help!!!!!

[Flo]

wi lost my gadged hat and other items

[R3M]

Anyone tried to recover those files from windows shadow copys?

https://www.ubackup.com/windows-10/volume-shadow-copy-windows-10.html#H2-3

[bob]

Thanks for the tip when I lose my save for some reason.

[Jimbo_The_Mofo]

I had to bite the bullet and complete everything again for my son, made plenty of backups this time. So it's been a couple of months since the last update and it's halloween tomorrow, hoping for a massive update!

[twosubset]

I'm trying to help my son recover his all his costumes and vehicles. All the game save data appears correct, but all of the saved games are from months ago...nothing is current. Can you help?