Missing Career History - 4.2 bug?

kq76 · 01-04-2003, 06:21 AM

I am in year 2017 of my league and my player histories only show their "career history" from 2009 to the present. I believe 2008-2009 _may_ have been when I updated from 4.1 to 4.2. Anyone know how I may be able to fix this, to add back the 2001-2008 career history?

Thanks.

Steve Kuffrey · 01-04-2003, 08:31 AM

I'm curious about what happened to your career history, I took a look at my leagues when I saw your post and all history's(sp) are intact. Are you certain that those years weren't played before the "player history" was added? Just to let you know all my leagues end up being "test leagues" for issues like this and I have not had a problem, nor heard of any others with this problem.

fantom1979 · 01-04-2003, 08:43 AM

I cannot say that I had the same problem, the previous 36 years of my league are intacted.

kq76 · 01-04-2003, 08:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Steve Kuffrey
Are you certain that those years weren't played before the "player history" was added?

I'm sorry, I don't believe I understand your question.

I've simmed a few leagues now and this is the first time I've had this problem. I do remember that earlier (say 2004) the career history was fine (showed 2001 through 2004). I've now reloaded years from before 2008 (e.g. 2007) and they only have that current year (2007) in the career history. The only thing I can think of that may have caused this was updating to 4.2. Maybe I did something else that caused this, but I can't think of anything.

kq76 · 01-04-2003, 08:59 AM

Below is a cropped screen capture of the aforementioned problem. As you can see, the scrollbar has not been moved and the history starts at 2009.

kq76 · 01-04-2003, 09:15 AM

It appears that my restores from 2001-2006 are fine, each year shows from 2001 to that year. 2007 and 2008 only show that year's history. 2009 and on show from 2009 and on.

Any ideas on how I can fix this? I hope my only option isn't to add back the text into the player files. Any fast ways to do this?

Steve Kuffrey · 01-04-2003, 09:31 AM

I'm currently at a loss, one because I would think that if applying 4.2 would have done this then LOTS of people would be having this issue. Second, is I don't know of any quicker way.

I'll keep looking into this however.

fantom1979 · 01-04-2003, 10:22 AM

Do you have your league files available anywhere? If not, can you host your league file somewhere, I would love to take a look at it. Thanks

kq76 · 01-04-2003, 10:25 AM

I have year-end backups from 2001 to 2016. Is there 1 or 2 that you specifically have in mind?

Tiger Fan · 01-04-2003, 11:58 AM

Did you delete or overwrite the PLAYERS folder within the NEWS folder of your league.

I have ran my HOB2 thru all patches of OOTP4 and never lost any history info.

kq76 · 01-04-2003, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tiger Fan
Did you delete or overwrite the PLAYERS folder within the NEWS folder of your league.

I'm pretty sure I didn't. Though, who knows, I may have by accident and just don't remember. If I'm the only one, then I guess it must have been something I did, and not the patch.

The only files that I delete are: the box folder, the messages folder (if there are any files in it), and empty (size 0kb) "story__.txt" files in the news folder. And these I only delete at the beginning of a year.

I'm thinking that to fix this, a program (maybe an advanced text editor?) might be able to recognize similar files (player files have the same file name), then add the text from the files in the first folder (2006) to the beginning of the text in the files of the second folder (2007). And then I could do this for each successive year (2008-2016). Anybody know of a program (or an ootp4 utility) that might be able to do this?

kq76 · 01-04-2003, 07:12 PM

Well I found a program that will do what I want, Araxis Merge (@ download.com). But I found something interesting. I compared my player folders for 2006 and 2007, and the 2007 folder is missing a lot of files. So, Tiger Fan, I guess you are right, I did delete my player folder somehow. Anyways, if someone ever needs to merge files, Araxis Merge looks to be a great program.

01-04-2003, 06:21 AM	#1
kq76 Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 12,084	Missing Career History - 4.2 bug? I am in year 2017 of my league and my player histories only show their "career history" from 2009 to the present. I believe 2008-2009 _may_ have been when I updated from 4.1 to 4.2. Anyone know how I may be able to fix this, to add back the 2001-2008 career history? Thanks.

01-04-2003, 08:31 AM	#2
Steve Kuffrey Administrator Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: S.E. TN - Georgia born and raised Posts: 17,036	I'm curious about what happened to your career history, I took a look at my leagues when I saw your post and all history's(sp) are intact. Are you certain that those years weren't played before the "player history" was added? Just to let you know all my leagues end up being "test leagues" for issues like this and I have not had a problem, nor heard of any others with this problem. __________________ Steve Kuffrey DABS Atlanta Braves - 2008 Eastern Division Champ *DBLC Atlanta Braves - 2011, 2014 East Division Champ, 2012, 2013 NL Wildcard Baseball Maelstrom-Montreal Expos-2013 Tourney winner, 2014 WC Team Sparky's League - Tampa Bay D'Rays Epicenter Baseball League - Astros 2014 The CBL Rewind - Phillies '95

01-04-2003, 08:43 AM	#3
fantom1979 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Detroit, MI Posts: 3,498	I cannot say that I had the same problem, the previous 36 years of my league are intacted. __________________

01-04-2003, 08:59 AM	#5
kq76 Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 12,084	Below is a cropped screen capture of the aforementioned problem. As you can see, the scrollbar has not been moved and the history starts at 2009. Attached Images

01-04-2003, 09:31 AM	#7
Steve Kuffrey Administrator Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: S.E. TN - Georgia born and raised Posts: 17,036	I'm currently at a loss, one because I would think that if applying 4.2 would have done this then LOTS of people would be having this issue. Second, is I don't know of any quicker way. I'll keep looking into this however. __________________ Steve Kuffrey DABS Atlanta Braves - 2008 Eastern Division Champ *DBLC Atlanta Braves - 2011, 2014 East Division Champ, 2012, 2013 NL Wildcard Baseball Maelstrom-Montreal Expos-2013 Tourney winner, 2014 WC Team Sparky's League - Tampa Bay D'Rays Epicenter Baseball League - Astros 2014 The CBL Rewind - Phillies '95

01-04-2003, 09:15 AM	#6
kq76 Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 12,084	It appears that my restores from 2001-2006 are fine, each year shows from 2001 to that year. 2007 and 2008 only show that year's history. 2009 and on show from 2009 and on. Any ideas on how I can fix this? I hope my only option isn't to add back the text into the player files. Any fast ways to do this?

01-04-2003, 10:22 AM	#8
fantom1979 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Detroit, MI Posts: 3,498	Do you have your league files available anywhere? If not, can you host your league file somewhere, I would love to take a look at it. Thanks __________________

01-04-2003, 10:25 AM	#9
kq76 Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 12,084	I have year-end backups from 2001 to 2016. Is there 1 or 2 that you specifically have in mind?

01-04-2003, 11:58 AM	#10
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Did you delete or overwrite the PLAYERS folder within the NEWS folder of your league. I have ran my HOB2 thru all patches of OOTP4 and never lost any history info. __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-04-2003, 07:12 PM	#12
kq76 Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 12,084	Well I found a program that will do what I want, Araxis Merge (@ download.com). But I found something interesting. I compared my player folders for 2006 and 2007, and the 2007 folder is missing a lot of files. So, Tiger Fan, I guess you are right, I did delete my player folder somehow. Anyways, if someone ever needs to merge files, Araxis Merge looks to be a great program.