Game Out of Sync

[Bobfather]

After 4th game of season, I shut down the game. Upon restart I was back to game 2. But my roster including trades were still same after game 4.

[WIUPIKE]

I would say to send them the files to look at.

[Lukas Berger]

Sounds like the league file was probably corrupted.

The first thing to try would be to restore from the game's autosave. Though you may not regain progress this way, depending on how often you had the game set to autosave, at least it should restore an non-corrupt save file.

To restore from the automatic backup, do the following:

1) Open the game and on the start screen, click on Settings (or Preferences in OOTP 11-14).

2) Now click on the tab "Troubleshooting".

3) Click "Open folder containing saved games".

4) Now open up the league folder you're wanting to restore.

5) Then select all of the .dat files in the folder and back them up (just in case) by copying them to a temporary folder or creating a zipped file with them

6) Open the folder called "auto-save".

7) In there, select all of the ".dat" files and copy them to the league folder (the parent of the current folder) overwriting all of the ".dat" files in the league folder.

Just to provide you with some info that might help prevent a recurrence in the future, there are a few things that can cause corruption.

This potentially includes unexpected system shutdowns or crashes especially while a league is saving, bad sectors on the hard drive the game is saved to, memory glitches on your computer (especially possible if the league is left open for very long periods of time without the game being shut down or restarted) or occasionally interference from other programs.

Some of what you might do to prevent that from coming up again would be to regularly defrag your hard drive as well as check it for errors, make sure to occasionally shut your computer off or at least restart it and also run as few other programs in the background at the same time as OOTP as possible. For programs that need to be running at the same time, like an anti-virus or firewall, it's a good idea to add OOTP to their whitelist.