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Help! Lost save data!

  • 23-08-2011 2:07am
    #1
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I was doing pretty well on the SurvivalOcean challenge but there was a blackout in the area while I was playing it. Now its not showing up in the load screen :(

    Is there any way to recover anything? The Region subfolder is okay and seems the same size as it was earlier so I'm guessing that's alright; the Data folder is empty but I'm guessing that's fine as I had no Maps crafted.


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  • #2
    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,282 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    Make a backup of the level.dat file and then rename level.dat_old to level.dat Sometimes that can repair a corrupted save.

    If that doesn't work you could send the save to me and I'll have a tinker with it to see if I can get anything from it.


  • #3
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Nope, still not showing up :(


  • #4
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Not a big deal, but noticed that I've lost my achievements as well...


  • #5
    Dazza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 561 ✭✭✭Dazza


    Do you have windows 7? If you do right click the .minecraft folder in %appdata% , click properties and click previous versions. If there isn't a backup there download MCEdit , load the map onto it and click repair chunks (I think)


  • #6
    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,282 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    One thing that has worked for a few people is starting a brand new map. Then copy the level.dat, level.dat_old and session.lock files from that save to the corrupted save. If it works you will lose any items that were in your inventory, but the world will be intact.


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  • #7
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Copying the level.dat from a fresh version of the map worked. No inventory items (all those pistons lost!) but at least my stuff is still in one piece! :D


  • #8
    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,282 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    Solitaire wrote: »
    Copying the level.dat from a fresh version of the map worked. No inventory items (all those pistons lost!) but at least my stuff is still in one piece! :D

    Glad it worked :)


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