How to change a career save to sandbox

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I set myself a challenge using EPL, civilian management and kethane(and new stock mining) set up a colony on layth, and only launch from there form now on,

I then also said to myself that it would be interesting to have the tectree progression as well (as a new kerbal colony starting completely from scratch) so i had to figure out how to convert the save file form sandbox to career (colony stuff and EPL is very late on the tree, let alone the rockets needed to get there).

since I figured it out I thought i would share it with you guies (although some of you probably knew how already)

How to change a career save to sandbox

first backup the name of your sandbox save from the sfs, do not backup the thing in brackets

e.g.

Title = sandbox

make a blank career save with preferred settings

in the career saves persistance.sfs find

ScenarioUpgradeableFacilities

scrole down to botom of section to where the next scenario starts

copy everything above that scenario

finally in the sand box sfs find

ScenarioDiscoverableObjects

go to the start of the next scenario (this is the same pace as the end of the section you copied from you career save)

block all text above this point and replace with the career save stuff you copied earlier

place the backed up title form the start and your done

your sandbox save is now at the very start of a career save