Lost your progress? How to (kind of) fix it.

[Adriaan]

Hey there!

First of all: I am sorry to hear you lost your progress. That is clearly not intended behaviour. There might be various reasons for this happening, among them being that I messed up something in my code, Steam Cloud messing up synchronisation, user-deleted application support files, data-writing errors, or various other reasons.

There isn't an easy way to get your personal progress back. Once steam decides to synchronise the corrupt (or new?) save file, it will overwrite anything that was there previously and there's really nothing I can do about that. What I can do, though, is give you existing savefiles that you can use to overwrite whatever you have on your computer. You could say this is sort of a hack: you can also dive into the files and set all the 'found' parameters in there on 'true' and open the game to find you've found everything. But that's just not fun, so why would anyone do that?

For this reason, you may download a savegame from the list below to push your progress up to the point where you left off originally. In the game, you will have found everything up until that point, so if you previously had one or two more targets left, those will already be found. It's inconvenient, but that's what I can do for you currently :/

Step-by-Step how to recover your progress

1. Download one of the savegames from the list below.
   
2. Copy the two files, targets.data and sessions.data.
   
3. Paste and replace these two files to any of the following folders, depending on your platform:
   On Windows: %USERPROFILE%/AppData/LocalLow/Adriaan de Jongh/Hidden Folks
   On macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Adriaan de Jongh/Hidden Folks
   On Linux: $XDG_DATA_HOME/unity3d/Adriaan de Jongh/Hidden Folks
   
4. Press the Play button in Steam like you normally would.
   
5. When asked to download files from Steam Cloud, DON'T! Use and upload the files from your local computer.
   
6. Your progress should be saved correctly from now on. If not, please send me your player log as described here and I'll try to investigate what the issue is.

Savegames

• Finished 1-3[hiddenfolks.com]
  
• Finished 1-5[hiddenfolks.com] (Forest theme completed)
  
• Finished 1-7[hiddenfolks.com]
  
• Finished 1-8[hiddenfolks.com] (Dry Lands theme completed)
  
• Finished 1-10[hiddenfolks.com]
  
• Finished 1-12[hiddenfolks.com] (City theme completed)
  
• Finished 1-14[hiddenfolks.com]

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! I'm here to help.

- Adriaan

[Der Vorarbeiter]

Dear Adriaan, the files are not available anymore :( Which one should I use if I have found all hidden folks in all maps before the update? May you reupload them, please?

[palex00]

Hello Der Vorarbeiter.

I have informed Adriaan, the files will be there soon again. I'll post an update here then

[Adriaan]

I moved my servers yesterday and apparently these files got lost in the move. I put them back, but as the name servers (DNS) in my area haven't propagated yet I can't actually see them changed... Do they work for you now?

[humitos]

Thank you so much for this info. I was able to recover my progress without problem!

[ZZoNDeRR]

Wrong path for macOS. Correct path is
~/Library/Application Support/com.adriaandejongh.hiddenfolks

[masistas]

Can we also have savegames that include the DLC levels?

[Adriaan]

Originally posted by masistas:

Can we also have savegames that include the DLC levels?

Yeah, I'll put that on my todo list!

[raidleader]

I'm really desperate to get those files, if at all possible please?