Game I'm Playing Has Disappeared, Help!

davolson · 05-07-2020, 04:39 PM

I am playing OOTP 21 on a PC. I'm playing a day by day simulation of the 2020 season. While playing today the screen suddenly froze, and after waiting a couple of minutes I clicked the close button. The screen turned white. When I tried closing it again, it asked if I wanted to terminate it and I said yes.

When I restarted OOTP 21 to see what had been saved from today's games, the game I am playing does not appear either in the :"Continue Game" or in the "Restore Game" menu. The files are all saved in my OOTP folder on my computer, but there is no way to resume the season. I did try creating a new game (a historical game) and that shows up fine.

I have a full cloud backup from Carbonite of all files, in addition to the Saved Games files, if that helps. I have the .dat files zipped if and when you want them. How can I restore this season from my backed up files??

Dave Olson

davolson · 05-07-2020, 05:42 PM

UPDATE: OK, I solved the problem by copying over every file in the old Saved Game to a new saved game which IS being recognized as existing. I DK why the old game disappeared completely, though.

05-07-2020, 04:39 PM	#1
davolson Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 56	Game I'm Playing Has Disappeared, Help! I am playing OOTP 21 on a PC. I'm playing a day by day simulation of the 2020 season. While playing today the screen suddenly froze, and after waiting a couple of minutes I clicked the close button. The screen turned white. When I tried closing it again, it asked if I wanted to terminate it and I said yes. When I restarted OOTP 21 to see what had been saved from today's games, the game I am playing does not appear either in the :"Continue Game" or in the "Restore Game" menu. The files are all saved in my OOTP folder on my computer, but there is no way to resume the season. I did try creating a new game (a historical game) and that shows up fine. I have a full cloud backup from Carbonite of all files, in addition to the Saved Games files, if that helps. I have the .dat files zipped if and when you want them. How can I restore this season from my backed up files?? Dave Olson

05-07-2020, 05:42 PM	#2
davolson Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 56	UPDATE: OK, I solved the problem by copying over every file in the old Saved Game to a new saved game which IS being recognized as existing. I DK why the old game disappeared completely, though.