deleted game save file please help!

[Jubie]

please help!

I recently accidentally deleted my save file of a game with my boyfriend. We both had already clocked in over 100 hours into looting, crafting, shooting & progressing the story. I was freaking devastated & really had a deep reflection as to how someone, who clocked in 100 hours plus, could look at the loading screen & click delete game. I was happily & eagerly waiting for the game to load load me in. Then my stomach & smile dropped when i realized the name of save file was goneeeeeeeeeee! I had to step back from the game & even deleted it completely off my desktop (maybe to cope).

I was excitedly waiting & following the latest updates of the game so when i saw it was finally here.. I re-downloaded the game after going through all the stages of grief with the first save file. After the latest update & loading in I miraculously see my first ever save file! please I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me but it really was RIGHT THERE!

I think the newest update did something to my game and brought back the save file but upon loading into it I noticed that the save only logged 00:00 as its time while I had progressed a lot further than that. I knew when it was gone I had to accept it & let it be but I feel like maybe this is a second chance & someone would be able to help me with this. :(

[MechWarden]

Unfortunately I'm not sure what can be done. Odds are the Steam Cloud save has already updated, and I don't think the backup files are that comprehensive enough to recover from.

But it is worth looking at the save folder anyway to see if the backup files are usable; assuming they are still there.

[burger boy]

if you were lucky enough to have recently made an backup for your pc, you may be able to roll the pc back to before you deleted the save file.
-- in the normal case of file deletion, it'd just be floating around in your recycle bin for around 30 days or so, provided you'd manually deleted the file of course. ( bit different for efficient deletions made by other programs however. ).

only other thing that might work, would be using an file restoration program to *potentially* recover the fully deleted file.

-- be sure to backup your saves in the future, as you never know when incidents like this'll happen again.

[Seaghauwn]

press the windows key + R

Type %appdata% and press enter

press the backspace key to go back a folder until you see 3 folders: local, locallow and roaming

go into local -> abiotic factor -> saved -> savegames and go into the id folder that shows up
inside should contain 2 folders: worlds and backups

go into the backups folder and your world that you deleted should appear there, open that folder up and numerous folders with a number should appear they are your world save backups, sort the file listing by date modified and copy the most recently modified folder and back out of the backups folder and go into the worlds folder and paste it there.

the save may be a tad older but still better than starting all over again.

oh and the world name is whatever that folder you copied into the worlds folder is so if the folder name was just 1 then the world will be called 1 so if you want to change it just rename the folder.

[MechWarden]

As I said before, I'm not sure of the backups are that good. Last I checked them (before the update) they seemed a bit incomplete, and I don't know why. I'm not sure if their base and whatnot would even be in it.

That said, I guess it is better than nothing.

[Seaghauwn]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

As I said before, I'm not sure of the backups are that good. Last I checked them (before the update) they seemed a bit incomplete, and I don't know why. I'm not sure if their base and whatnot would even be in it.

That said, I guess it is better than nothing.

I managed to recover a two save files both were deleted from june before the flathill fog update so there was no indicator that it would of been tampered from two updates, one save file (last backup was 23rd of july) was ready to go into the security sector so it did not have an objective and the other was a multiplayer world (last backup was 10th of june) in manufacturing so flathill was completed.

The first file I loaded in I got the objective to infiltrate security sector again which means it works fine, the second file as I am typing this got the fog weather event which you get after finishing flathill, this save file had a backup save way before the fog update.

it works trust.

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by Seaghauwn:

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it works trust.

Glad to hear!

Just when I looked at my files, the backup files didn't look like a comprehensive backup.

Here's hoping the backup files are still there, even after deleting the files.

[Jubie]

hi all! thank you so much for your responses! Big thank you because I was able to save my original save file with everything still there. My base & everything is back & there doesn't seem to be anything missing or broken in the save file. My boyfriend & I were able to play the newer areas without having to start completely over! Our file didn't corrupt & we ended up literally starting up where we left off last time. Thank yall so much for responding!

[MechWarden]

Good to hear! I'll keep this thread in mind when I hear of another accidental deletion.