save

[Miki1666]

My save don't load. other saves work.

[Angel]

Maybe your save is corrupted. That happens allot nowadays.

[Miki1666]

can I fix it? I worked whole day on that...

[Miki1666]

HELP!

[Dipe]

Originally posted by Miki1666:

HELP!

Hey! I wanted to share how I finally got my missing save to show up in INZOI — even though everything seemed lost.
I had an error "Save Data Corrupted.The save data corrupted. Corrupted save data cannot be played or recovered. (ErrorCode: FileNotFound)"

First, I realized that my Windows user account had the name JOSIE & MALIK (with a space and &), which may have caused issues with how INZOI accessed save paths. The game couldn't load any saves — even newly created ones immediately gave a “FileNotFound” error.

So I:

Created a new Windows admin account with a simple name (no spaces or special characters).

Logged into Steam and INZOI under this new user.

Created a new save — and it worked!

Then I tried to restore my old save:

I copied my old save folder into the new user’s SaveGames directory.

But INZOI still didn’t show it in the Load menu.

That’s when I noticed something:
Inside each save folder, there’s a Portraits subfolder with .png files — one for each character.

In my old save’s Portraits folder, I saw two PNG files — my two custom characters that I had created before everything broke.

So I took just those two PNG portraits (nothing else!) and pasted them into the Portraits folders of all my new working saves.

After that — I opened INZOI, went to “Load Game”... and BOOM — my old save with both characters finally appeared and loaded normally.

So maybe INZOI uses those PNGs to validate saves — or maybe they help link character data back in. Either way, this totally saved me.

If anyone else is stuck like I was — give it a try!

[sanscrt]

that can't be the solution for such a problem. for real?! I don't even know why I should create an admin and why this should impact a saving issue of a steam game.

Originally posted by Dipe:

Originally posted by Miki1666:

HELP!

Hey! I wanted to share how I finally got my missing save to show up in INZOI — even though everything seemed lost.
I had an error "Save Data Corrupted.The save data corrupted. Corrupted save data cannot be played or recovered. (ErrorCode: FileNotFound)"

First, I realized that my Windows user account had the name JOSIE & MALIK (with a space and &), which may have caused issues with how INZOI accessed save paths. The game couldn't load any saves — even newly created ones immediately gave a “FileNotFound” error.

So I:

Created a new Windows admin account with a simple name (no spaces or special characters).

Logged into Steam and INZOI under this new user.

Created a new save — and it worked!

Then I tried to restore my old save:

I copied my old save folder into the new user’s SaveGames directory.

But INZOI still didn’t show it in the Load menu.

That’s when I noticed something:
Inside each save folder, there’s a Portraits subfolder with .png files — one for each character.

In my old save’s Portraits folder, I saw two PNG files — my two custom characters that I had created before everything broke.

So I took just those two PNG portraits (nothing else!) and pasted them into the Portraits folders of all my new working saves.

After that — I opened INZOI, went to “Load Game”... and BOOM — my old save with both characters finally appeared and loaded normally.

So maybe INZOI uses those PNGs to validate saves — or maybe they help link character data back in. Either way, this totally saved me.

If anyone else is stuck like I was — give it a try!

[Miki1666]

Originally posted by Dipe:

Originally posted by Miki1666:

HELP!

Hey! I wanted to share how I finally got my missing save to show up in INZOI — even though everything seemed lost.
I had an error "Save Data Corrupted.The save data corrupted. Corrupted save data cannot be played or recovered. (ErrorCode: FileNotFound)"

First, I realized that my Windows user account had the name JOSIE & MALIK (with a space and &), which may have caused issues with how INZOI accessed save paths. The game couldn't load any saves — even newly created ones immediately gave a “FileNotFound” error.

So I:

Created a new Windows admin account with a simple name (no spaces or special characters).

Logged into Steam and INZOI under this new user.

Created a new save — and it worked!

Then I tried to restore my old save:

I copied my old save folder into the new user’s SaveGames directory.

But INZOI still didn’t show it in the Load menu.

That’s when I noticed something:
Inside each save folder, there’s a Portraits subfolder with .png files — one for each character.

In my old save’s Portraits folder, I saw two PNG files — my two custom characters that I had created before everything broke.

So I took just those two PNG portraits (nothing else!) and pasted them into the Portraits folders of all my new working saves.

After that — I opened INZOI, went to “Load Game”... and BOOM — my old save with both characters finally appeared and loaded normally.

So maybe INZOI uses those PNGs to validate saves — or maybe they help link character data back in. Either way, this totally saved me.

If anyone else is stuck like I was — give it a try!

I gave up and load old save but thank you <3

[Dipe]

Umm... I actually spent a lot of time trying to fix this, and this is what helped me. After creating a new admin account, my saves finally started working again. Then I managed to restore my save and continue playing with all my progress. I'm just sharing it here in case it helps someone else too. If it's not your thing - no one's forcing you :)
(And no, you don't have to delete or move anything - your original admin account stays untouched. You can just use the new one ONLY for playing inzoi. Switching accounts takes literally one minute.))

Originally posted by sanscrt:

that can't be the solution for such a problem. for real?! I don't even know why I should create an admin and why this should impact a saving issue of a steam game.

Originally posted by Dipe:

Hey! I wanted to share how I finally got my missing save to show up in INZOI — even though everything seemed lost.
I had an error "Save Data Corrupted.The save data corrupted. Corrupted save data cannot be played or recovered. (ErrorCode: FileNotFound)"

First, I realized that my Windows user account had the name JOSIE & MALIK (with a space and &), which may have caused issues with how INZOI accessed save paths. The game couldn't load any saves — even newly created ones immediately gave a “FileNotFound” error.

So I:

Created a new Windows admin account with a simple name (no spaces or special characters).

Logged into Steam and INZOI under this new user.

Created a new save — and it worked!

Then I tried to restore my old save:

I copied my old save folder into the new user’s SaveGames directory.

But INZOI still didn’t show it in the Load menu.

That’s when I noticed something:
Inside each save folder, there’s a Portraits subfolder with .png files — one for each character.

In my old save’s Portraits folder, I saw two PNG files — my two custom characters that I had created before everything broke.

So I took just those two PNG portraits (nothing else!) and pasted them into the Portraits folders of all my new working saves.

After that — I opened INZOI, went to “Load Game”... and BOOM — my old save with both characters finally appeared and loaded normally.

So maybe INZOI uses those PNGs to validate saves — or maybe they help link character data back in. Either way, this totally saved me.

If anyone else is stuck like I was — give it a try!

[nancyhamdy100]

I have the same problem please solve the problem this is really annoying