Majority of teams in my save have been inexplicably corrupted

MrDov · 06-03-2021, 10:02 PM

I have a fictional world using all pre-made leagues (MLB, KBO, independent leagues, etc) and halfway through my second year I booted up my game and noticed most teams in rookie leagues and all teams in international and independent leagues no longer exist. The players still exist but seem to be caught in a purgatory. Clicking on the blank team spots in the standings takes you to a clearly errored team page.

I haven't tried progressing or performing any actions in case this is recoverable.

Papi · 06-06-2021, 02:38 AM

Same thing happened to me today. Loaded up a game, and International Leagues, minor leagues and expansion teams are missing and the players are all in "purgatory" as you put it. Unfortunately, the instructions for uploading a file aren't all that intuitive or I am just not very bright, so my assumption is that the issue will get ignored as Markus explained in his tacked Bug Post.

Lukas Berger · 06-06-2021, 07:06 AM

When a league 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 · 06-06-2021, 07:06 AM

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.

MrDov · 06-12-2021, 12:05 PM

Just now getting a chance to try this. Unfortunately, I think I tried popping into the save a few too many times trying to troubleshoot and it would autosave upon exiting to where the autosave file was also corrupted. Though it is good to know these steps for recovery in case this happens again. I appreciate the help.

06-03-2021, 10:02 PM	#1
MrDov Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 281	Majority of teams in my save have been inexplicably corrupted I have a fictional world using all pre-made leagues (MLB, KBO, independent leagues, etc) and halfway through my second year I booted up my game and noticed most teams in rookie leagues and all teams in international and independent leagues no longer exist. The players still exist but seem to be caught in a purgatory. Clicking on the blank team spots in the standings takes you to a clearly errored team page. I haven't tried progressing or performing any actions in case this is recoverable. Attached Images

06-06-2021, 07:06 AM	#3
Lukas Berger OOTP Developments Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nice, Côte d'Azur, France Posts: 22,296	When a league 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@ootpdevelopments.com Buy Out of the Park Baseball 27! Need to upload files for us to check out? Instructions can be found here

06-06-2021, 07:06 AM	#4
Lukas Berger OOTP Developments Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nice, Côte d'Azur, France Posts: 22,296	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. __________________ lukas@ootpdevelopments.com Buy Out of the Park Baseball 27! Need to upload files for us to check out? Instructions can be found here

06-06-2021, 02:38 AM	#2
Papi All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,172	Same thing happened to me today. Loaded up a game, and International Leagues, minor leagues and expansion teams are missing and the players are all in "purgatory" as you put it. Unfortunately, the instructions for uploading a file aren't all that intuitive or I am just not very bright, so my assumption is that the issue will get ignored as Markus explained in his tacked Bug Post.

06-12-2021, 12:05 PM	#5
MrDov Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 281	Just now getting a chance to try this. Unfortunately, I think I tried popping into the save a few too many times trying to troubleshoot and it would autosave upon exiting to where the autosave file was also corrupted. Though it is good to know these steps for recovery in case this happens again. I appreciate the help.