my game crashed suddenly and deleted my farm

[lychee]

while i was playing with my boyfriend on year 2 of our farm and my game suddenly crashed during the nighttime "saving" screen. now the farm we were playing on isn't available to launch (i'm the host). is there any known fix for this? any help is appreciated :(

[[101C] ZellFaze]

I don't think there is likely going to be much that you can do here. Your save file is probably corrupted. Sorry for your loss. :(

Edit: Saw a post on another thread and it seems like there may actually be a backup of your save files.

"Are the save files permanently deleted from the folder? Look for the %appdata% folder and look for the Stardew Valley files then go to Saves to check the save files. They should be labeled by the character name and a string of numbers.

If they're still there, you can go into the character folder and see 4 files: 2 character names and 2 Savegameinfo files.

Make a backup of the saves first before you mess with them tho.

Now, once you have a backup, delete the 2 files WITHOUT the _old.

Once done, rename the remaining files by removing the _old from the file name.

This will roll you back a day but you should be able to run the save file again.

I hope this works and you get your saves back!"

[Renzo]

Hey Vzri, there might be a way, go to your save file and look up a backup option. We found out we can go back one day as it always keeps the previous days save file. Just rename the old one to the new and you will be good to go.
Add me if you need help doing so and I can guide you. We are playing multiplayer with three people and we succesfully went back to roll one day.

[LetTheBodyFall]

Originally posted by 101C ZellFaze:

I don't think there is likely going to be much that you can do here. Your save file is probably corrupted. Sorry for your loss. :(

Edit: Saw a post on another thread and it seems like there may actually be a backup of your save files.

"Are the save files permanently deleted from the folder? Look for the %appdata% folder and look for the Stardew Valley files then go to Saves to check the save files. They should be labeled by the character name and a string of numbers.

If they're still there, you can go into the character folder and see 4 files: 2 character names and 2 Savegameinfo files.

Make a backup of the saves first before you mess with them tho.

Now, once you have a backup, delete the 2 files WITHOUT the _old.

Once done, rename the remaining files by removing the _old from the file name.

This will roll you back a day but you should be able to run the save file again.

I hope this works and you get your saves back!"

Thanks for quoting me :>

Yeah, the game has a backup to preserve saves when it corrupts. If everything works fine, you'll only lose a day of progress.

[maxslyd]

Originally posted by 101C ZellFaze:

I don't think there is likely going to be much that you can do here. Your save file is probably corrupted. Sorry for your loss. :(

Edit: Saw a post on another thread and it seems like there may actually be a backup of your save files.

"Are the save files permanently deleted from the folder? Look for the %appdata% folder and look for the Stardew Valley files then go to Saves to check the save files. They should be labeled by the character name and a string of numbers.

If they're still there, you can go into the character folder and see 4 files: 2 character names and 2 Savegameinfo files.

Make a backup of the saves first before you mess with them tho.

Now, once you have a backup, delete the 2 files WITHOUT the _old.

Once done, rename the remaining files by removing the _old from the file name.

This will roll you back a day but you should be able to run the save file again.

I hope this works and you get your saves back!"

you saved my life

[summsbabe]

I did this the game save still wont pop up but my mod screen throws red and it says
[game] Exception occurred trying to access file 'C:\Users\mbden\AppData\Roaming\StardewValley\Saves\Flowers_385607357\SaveGameInfo'
InvalidOperationException: There is an error in XML document (1, 1).
---> System.Xml.XmlException: '.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 1.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowInvalidChar(Char[] data, Int32 length, Int32 invCharPos)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseRootLevelWhitespace()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlReader.MoveToContent()
at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderFarmer.Read172_Farmer()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader, String encodingStyle, XmlDeserializationEvents events)
at StardewValley.Menus.LoadGameMenu.FindSaveGames(String filter) in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\Farmer\Farmer\Menus\LoadGameMenu.cs:line 674
[game] Exception occurred trying to access file 'C:\Users\mbden\AppData\Roaming\StardewValley\Saves\Flowers_385740764\SaveGameInfo'
InvalidOperationException: There is an error in XML document (1, 1).
---> System.Xml.XmlException: '.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 1.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowInvalidChar(Char[] data, Int32 length, Int32 invCharPos)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseRootLevelWhitespace()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlReader.MoveToContent()
at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderFarmer.Read172_Farmer()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader, String encodingStyle, XmlDeserializationEvents events)
at StardewValley.Menus.LoadGameMenu.FindSaveGames(String filter) in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\Farmer\Farmer\Menus\LoadGameMenu.cs:line 674

[red255]

I don't know about multiplayer, but the game saves and moves the old save to a filename.old.

so you just delete the save and rename the old save the same as the save was.

you lose the day that crashed but you should be fine.