Can not start New Game

[COYG316]

Help I think I've messed up where my games are saved because I can't start a new game now.

When I start new game I get error message saying "could not open game folder" I have uninstalled and reinstalled and verified files in steam.

Any ideas how to fix this?

[COYG316]

So I deleted the game folder and reinstalled the game but the game folder doesn't reappear which I thought it would and I still get the error message when trying to start a new game!!

[COYG316]

Had some help over on the discord but the issue is still not resolved.

When I create a new folder to try and change the path file the game does not allow me to change the path file. I select change and chose the newly created folder but it doesn't save the change.

Hopefully someone here picks this up and will be able to help me.

[COYG316]

My FHM10 folder now shows in steam/steam apps but not documents like before and I am not able to change the custom data path. HELP PLEASE!

[COYG316]

HUGE shout-out to Mellman/Tomkmb for helping me get this issue resolved.

Thankyou so much for being so patient and determined with everything mate!

[tomkmb]

Originally Posted by COYG316

HUGE shout-out to Mellman/Tomkmb for helping me get this issue resolved.

Thankyou so much for being so patient and determined with everything mate!

You're welcome mate, glad we got there in the end.

Let this be a cautionary tale for all OneDrive users, this was essentially a convoluted issue caused by OneDrive.

This excerpt from the FHM manual cannot be overstated:



If you have OneDrive, this should be the first thing you do after installing the game in my opinion - it could probably prevent these types of issues from getting out of hand and taking a long time to troubleshoot/resolve.

On a side note Jeff/Sebastian - after resolving this I also helped COYG316 to install a photo mod (this is what he wanted to do initially but couldn't because of the data file not being found issue which sparked the whole debacle). Not using photo mods myself I directed him to copy the contents of the photo mod to the global directory 'Photos' inside the main FHM directory, we then went into the game and checked the box to 'Load Photos from Global Directory' - however, once we rebooted the game, the pictures were still not showing, is that function working as intended? I didn't know how to force the game to look for the images again without just rebooting (aside from using the action menu for all players)

To resolve that we copied the photos into the individual .lg 'player_pics' folder, which worked, however obviously that is only for that single save. To try and give some longevity to that solution I also asked him to copy the pictures to the quickstart.Current relevant folder, so hopefully that should work for his next save he creates but if that won't or there is a better way then please let me know.

Cheers