Already two lost save files this year

[willboat75]

In the past two weeks, I have had two 2021 MLB saves get corrupted. Both save files had all of the international and independent leagues with jerseys and logos. I also added three leagues to the game.

I have all of the leagues customized with inflation on as well as the correct names for playoffs and such. I don't think this is the reason the save files have been corrupted though.

Each file was corrupted within a year of MLB expansion. I completed the entire 2027 season in my Reds franchise after expanding in the offseason before. After I won the World Series my game froze after I tried to save and exit the game.

The same thing happened in my A's franchise after I attempted to save and exit the day after expanding.

I am on a 2020 Macbook Pro that I just recently bought. I'd be happy to go into more detail.

[Lukas Berger]

Sorry that's happening!

If the league files is corrupted, you may be able to restore from the autosave function. Instructions on doing that follow:

To restore from the automatic backup, do the following:

1) Open the game and on the start screen, click on Settings

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.

8) Now start the game and load your league.

[Lukas Berger]

For future reference, 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.

So it's impossible to say which of those issues caused the problem, but 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 and exclude OOTP and its data folders from any disk cleaners or similar programs. This is a pretty important step, as it's probably where 95% of the issues with league corruption come from. Basically, any programs that can change or delete files on their own, without asking you about it, you'll want to have them steer clear of any OOTP files and folders.

[willboat75]

I don't really have any hardcore programs running on my computer. OOTP is the only thing I do other than use the internet. I also have been having problems with the game randomly crashing on me pretty often. I never had any crashing problems on OOTP 21

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by willboat75

I don't really have any hardcore programs running on my computer. OOTP is the only thing I do other than use the internet. I also have been having problems with the game randomly crashing on me pretty often. I never had any crashing problems on OOTP 21

It doesn't so much need to be a hardcore program, but just anything that can interfere with OOTP, especially when it writes files to the disk. Especially any sort of disk cleaner/anti-virus etc.

It might be helpful to submit a support ticket here (or via email at support@ootpdevelopments.com) and let the support team walk you through some troubleshooting to see if it's possible to narrow down where any issues may be coming from.