Sync save issue

[Maddog2676]

Help, my game crashed yesterday and the sync on the cloud save didn't happen. is there anyway to get a saved game back? when i try to load my vault now it just constantly crashes.

[Mardoin69]

Nope. Unfortunately, that's the problem with 'Cloud Sync' and game crashes. It corrupts the save. It's why I keep telling everyone--for this game and a couple others--to disable that 'cloud sync' in the properties. You probably should disable it on any game that does auto saves really. I personally disable it globally cuz I'd rather do my own manual backups of important saves and never deal with this corruption issue. Now you just need to delete that vault and start over... unless you can get a (FSSE) Save Editor to open the vault file. Might be able to recover it if it can open it and then run all the 'fix' Tools. Save file changes, exit editor, load game and test. Be sure you've disabled 'Cloud Sync' first though.

[Maddog2676]

Thank you, that was my fear, money down the drain on the odd lunchbox etc...

i will disable now.

[Fractard]

Before starting over go to the saves folder, move away your current vault save (don't delet it now), VaultX.sav where X is your vault number (by creation order I think), rename the backup from VaultX.sav.bkp to VaultX.sav, then try to load your save. If it work then you can delet the original save.

Second thing you can try is use the online save editor (on GuitHub) to open the save and the backup (keep both), do a minor change and save, then try to load your vault with the game.

Last thing, but if the editor failed it will probbly don't work, use the online decryptor (on GuitHub too), convert the original save to JSON and convert it back to .sav for both you save and your backup, finally see if the game can load your vault.

If it won't load your save but you can still open or convert to .json it with the save editor keep it, satart a new vault and add your dwellers from your previous vault.
Online editors have a link leading to each other, the editor is the safe option but is limited, whyle having your save in .json allow you to eddit it with a text editor it means you can fu** up your save (use Notpad++ or nything that keeps code structure).

For those that are on Windows (no idea if it can be done on other OS) they can check the Starbound (a sandbox game) guide for quickly doing backup (change the save folder name). You will be able to create .bat file executing a code when start.

[Maddog2676]

Thank you, changing the bkp file to the main one worked.

[Maddog2676]

Just have a save issue now, as the file doesn't seem to accept a new save game. i've copied the file as to not lose anything, and then deleted the file so when i save it's a new file(if you know what i mean) and still it takes me to the point when i lost the file originally. i've tried this with sync on and off. with sync on it would sync the file says "Cloud issue"

[Mardoin69]

Ugh! DO NOT re-enable that 'Cloud Sync' as it will most likely just corrupt your save all over again. You got real lucky that backup save worked cuz, Cloud Sync tends to corrupt both of them at the same time when something like this happens. Now, delete whichever 'vault.sav' files are in there that are corrupted. Rename your 'vault.sav.bkp' to just 'vault.sav' assuming that's the one that will load up. Now, before you go launching the game... use that FSSE (Fallout Shelter Save Editor) and load the vault file. Go to the 'Tools' section and run all the 'fix'es on that save. Open File menu and 'Save' the changes to the Vault file. Close the Vault file, exit the editor. Make a backup copy of your (now fixed) vault.sav file... just to have a good backup on hand. Launch game and test.

[Maddog2676]

All sorted, my internet was playing up which caused a lag in sync.

thanks for the help