Lost all my save. PLEASE HELP!

[Excaleaaa]

I have 120 hours of this game and is level 80. Played this afternoon and it's all fine. I quit and left my laptop running for some hours. When i tried to log back in, the game crashed and forcibly restarted my laptop. Tried to log back in again and it's all gone and i'm back to the tutorial. I look on the menu to recover save but it's all greyed out and i can't see anything. Any idea so i can get my save back?

[RaindropperinG]

Try the in-game Restore Save option. Should be located under 'Gameplay'.

If that doesn't work, though, try restarting your PC.

[Excaleaaa]

Originally posted by RaindropperinG:

Try the in-game Restore Save option. Should be located under 'Gameplay'.

If that doesn't work, though, try restarting your PC.

Already restarted it, but it doesn't work.

[Lord Of War]

Head to wherever your game is installed
D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Deep Rock Galactic\FSD\Saved\SaveGames

Look for back up files
long number_Backup_3.sav

If it's there, rename one so it says
long number_Player.sav

See if that helps.

[Excaleaaa]

Originally posted by Lord Of War:

Head to wherever your game is installed
D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Deep Rock Galactic\FSD\Saved\SaveGames

Look for back up files
long number_Backup_3.sav

If it's there, rename one so it says
long number_Player.sav

See if that helps.

I found the long number_Backup_3 file but it's type is SPSS Statistic Data. Is this right? I had the SPSS program on a month trial some years back for my college stuff.

[Excaleaaa]

Originally posted by Lord Of War:

Head to wherever your game is installed
D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Deep Rock Galactic\FSD\Saved\SaveGames

Look for back up files
long number_Backup_3.sav

If it's there, rename one so it says
long number_Player.sav

See if that helps.

I also found the same kind of file from Steam Cloud Save, again, it's in SPSS type file and i can't open it since my SPSS program is expired. I tried to remove the SPSS program a while back but it appears i haven't done it properly

[Waste_of_skin]

Originally posted by Excaleaaa:

I found the long number_Backup_3 file but it's type is SPSS Statistic Data.

Ignore that. That just means that Windows has SPSS associated with the .sav file extension, so any file that ends in .sav will be listed as an SPSS file. That has nothing to do with the actual contents of the file, and doesn't prevent other programs, like DRG, from using it. It really just means that if you double-click on the file, Windows will default to trying to use SPSS to open the file.

Did you try renaming the file, as Lord of War described?

[Excaleaaa]

Originally posted by Waste_of_skin:

Originally posted by Excaleaaa:

I found the long number_Backup_3 file but it's type is SPSS Statistic Data.

Ignore that. That just means that Windows has SPSS associated with the .sav file extension, so any file that ends in .sav will be listed as an SPSS file. That has nothing to do with the actual contents of the file, and doesn't prevent other programs, like DRG, from using it. It really just means that if you double-click on the file, Windows will default to trying to use SPSS to open the file.

Did you try renaming the file, as Lord of War described?

I haven't yet because i was scared to do anything, will try it now

[Lord Of War]

Well make a copy of it and rename it, you ain't got nothing to lose now anyways.

[Excaleaaa]

Originally posted by Waste_of_skin:

Originally posted by Excaleaaa:

I found the long number_Backup_3 file but it's type is SPSS Statistic Data.

Ignore that. That just means that Windows has SPSS associated with the .sav file extension, so any file that ends in .sav will be listed as an SPSS file. That has nothing to do with the actual contents of the file, and doesn't prevent other programs, like DRG, from using it. It really just means that if you double-click on the file, Windows will default to trying to use SPSS to open the file.

Did you try renaming the file, as Lord of War described?

Okay, so there's actually another file already named long number_Player.sav in the folder, and renaming long number_Backup_3.sav only changed it into long number_Player.sav (2). Tried to loh back in and it gave me the option to delete all save until there's only one left. There were Player and Player (2) in there, and i deleted 2. It didn't work and it put me back to the tutorial.

[Excaleaaa]

Originally posted by Lord Of War:

Well make a copy of it and rename it, you ain't got nothing to lose now anyways.

I last played at 3 PM yesterday, and tried to log back in twice at 8 PM. In the folder, there are several backup files.

Backup 0 at 8.04 PM
Backup 1 at 8.05 PM
Backup 2 at 3.12 PM (Last i played)
Backup 3 at 3.16 PM (The date is today so i assume it's because i just tried renaming, logging in, and failed)
Player at 3.16 Today (I assume same as Backup 3)

Maybe i should try renaming Backup 2 to Player.sav? Since it's the file where i last played.

There are however, several other files named long number_Player_ExternalBackUp (0-5), but only 2 and 5 matched the hour i last played

[Rayalot72]

Originally posted by Excaleaaa:

Originally posted by Lord Of War:

Well make a copy of it and rename it, you ain't got nothing to lose now anyways.

I last played at 3 PM yesterday, and tried to log back in twice at 8 PM. In the folder, there are several backup files.

Backup 0 at 8.04 PM
Backup 1 at 8.05 PM
Backup 2 at 3.12 PM (Last i played)
Backup 3 at 3.16 PM (The date is today so i assume it's because i just tried renaming, logging in, and failed)
Player at 3.16 Today (I assume same as Backup 3)

Maybe i should try renaming Backup 2 to Player.sav? Since it's the file where i last played.

There are however, several other files named long number_Player_ExternalBackUp (0-5), but only 2 and 5 matched the hour i last played

Before you do anything, copy the entire folder into a new folder on your desktop or in your documents somewhere so that you have extra copies of them.

[Rayalot72]

After you've copied everything into a separate folder, go back to the actual save folder and delete Player.sav, then rename the backup file of your choice to be Player.sav.

[Excaleaaa]

Originally posted by Rayalot72:

After you've copied everything into a separate folder, go back to the actual save folder and delete Player.sav, then rename the backup file of your choice to be Player.sav.

IT WORKED!! THANK GOD!

I was right, Backup 2 was my last save and deleting Player.sav and renaming Backup 2 to Player.sav worked! Thanks a lot all of you, i thought i lost it all!

(Question: Should i delete the other backup files? They were created from today and has no progression in them)

[Rayalot72]

Originally posted by Excaleaaa:

Originally posted by Rayalot72:

After you've copied everything into a separate folder, go back to the actual save folder and delete Player.sav, then rename the backup file of your choice to be Player.sav.

IT WORKED!! THANK GOD!

I was right, Backup 2 was my last save and deleting Player.sav and renaming Backup 2 to Player.sav worked! Thanks a lot all of you, i thought i lost it all!

(Question: Should i delete the other backup files? They were created from today and has no progression in them)

To my knowledge, you should just let the backups be. If it is advantageous to delete them, I'd also back them up somewhere else just in case.

[Excaleaaa]

Originally posted by Rayalot72:

Originally posted by Excaleaaa:

IT WORKED!! THANK GOD!

I was right, Backup 2 was my last save and deleting Player.sav and renaming Backup 2 to Player.sav worked! Thanks a lot all of you, i thought i lost it all!

(Question: Should i delete the other backup files? They were created from today and has no progression in them)

To my knowledge, you should just let the backups be. If it is advantageous to delete them, I'd also back them up somewhere else just in case.

Thank you so much, Rock and Stone!