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Why won't my backup file load?

4,032 CrazyPenguin1306  4.5 years ago

Ok so i was building an f-16 as my latest project, I had the whole body complete and the left wing, the vertical stabilizer, and I was finishing the horizontal stabilizer, when I tried testing the function of the horizontal stabilizer and tried loading into the game, it crashed so I reloaded the game and I recovered the plane as a backup file but it won't load, I put a lot of effort into this build, I am on mobile how do I fix this? I don't want to have to build the whole thing over again.

Please help me!

Tag people that might know how to help me.
It might be a bug in the game that caused this.

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    9,103 ZWLenning

    @lilgreen06 ahh yes i thiugh you had posted the build unlisted im getting confused with another situation sorry

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    @Zoowarp What are you going to download?

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    9,103 ZWLenning

    @lilgreen06 I'm gonna download it and have a look today hopefully and if i can get it to work I'll post unlisted and tag you?

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    105k Hedero

    Oh ok. I wish you luck!@lilgreen06

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    @Hedero Ok, I think I found my problem, I think I had to much fuel in it, maybe that wasn't it, but that is what I am going with.

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    105k Hedero

    Yes, save as many times as you need to. Once you upload the final product, I just delete all my other saves. It has worked so far.@lilgreen06

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    @Hedero Ok I already started another one and took you advise on saving at different times, thank you anyways.

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    105k Hedero

    I tried to contact the devs and it seems that there was no help for this issue. I even made a forum post about it and tagged some devs and no one helped out. I had to deal with my p-26 being gone so I guess it's the only route to take.@lilgreen06

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    @TheMachinist @Hedero @Zoowarp if you know anyone who might know how to help me fix this then please tag them, cause I don't want to have to do this all over again.

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    @Hedero bummer =-(

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    105k Hedero

    Not as far as I know. I tried to figure it out but I just ended up deleting my p-26. It wouldn't load no matter what I did. It's just a sorry reality I guess. :/@lilgreen06

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    @Hedero yeah I was so close to finishing the horizontal stabilizer, I went to test the function but the game crashed, and sent me to he main menu, then it said that the game crashed, and that they would back it up, so it was backed up, but when I go to load the save it, won't load there is always an error.
    Is there a way to get it to load?

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    105k Hedero

    Yes, as unfortunate as it is, it has happened to me before. It actually happened a few months ago when I was building a p-26 peashooter, I worked uber hard on the wings and when they were done, the whole aircraft disappeared. I was devastated. But I learned a method that would largely keep this from happening. When you build you airplane, save it as different files. For expample, say I want to build a p-55, I'll build the body and the wings. Then I'll save ot has p-55 (1). Then I get the gear done, I save it as p-55 (2), so on and so forth. Sometimes I have up to 70 saves on a single build because I don't want to lose it that badly. I'm very sorry though for this, it really is heartbreaking.@lilgreen06

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    @Hedero has this ever happened to you?

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    @Zoowarp ok well, the only thing that I am aware of that I used xmon,l was the thruster and it was resizing it, I don't know, I worked really hard on it, the game crashed, it went into a backup save, but that won't load, I can't get back to the build to see what even went wrong.

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    9,103 ZWLenning

    @lilgreen06 what did you change in XML? Give me the exact syntax of each segment I don't have time right now to download it and go through it all

    My latest plane had the same problem because I did -1+... when I should have done (-1)+..., as an example of how picky it can be

    Also the fact that you are using XML means you are in fact using funky trees, so you're on the right path and are just lacking the knowledge!

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    @Zoowarp I was using xml yes, but I don't know how to funky tree that is a confusing and unknown thing to me, and I am on mobile and just use the game to do everything, I don't use other apps to do things in simpleplanes

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    9,103 ZWLenning

    @lilgreen06 are you using XML editing in a notepad applicatio for some of the functions? If you are using a separate notepad application then a syntax error can cause this so double check your tree funking

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    @TheMachinist I tagged the devs and mods to see of there is possibly a bug that is doing this.

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    @Tully2001 @AndrewGarisson @EternalDarkness

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