Reinstalled - Lost everything.

[Mapoko]

Hello.

I decided to reinstall the game

My saves are local. Or more likely were.

I made saves.rar before uninstalling, but foolishly it was left in the game folder.

Now the whole folder is gone with the saves.rar as well.

Is there any way to restore ?

I do not really care about my normal save or mods. Was using only EVE KER and Transfer Window planner anyway.

But on my hard save I had pretty big base on Minmus as well as refueling orbiting station. Few of my orange shirts had pretty close calls with the death, but was not lost.

Should I just start over and try to get over it ?

[Randazzo]

Depends how you reinstalled the game. If you just deleted the folder it should be in your recycle bin.

Even if you overwrote the files, it shouldn't have erased your compressed file.

[Mapoko]

Steam > Delete Local content. he whole folder is gone an none in the RBin

[sal_vager]

Mapoko, don't use your PC any more than absolutely necessary, every time your OS or any program writes to your hard drive you risk overwriting the lost files.

See here for Microsofts help on data recovery.

You will need file recovery software, I can't recommend any, and even installing it can cause you to lose the files you want to recover.

Good luck.

Edited May 20, 2015 by sal_vager

[Mapoko]

Thank you. I will try and if I fail today I guess I will just start new Hard career and hope for the best. I did not achieve sending Kerbal to Duna and back, so not that great of a loss progress wise.

[katateochi]

I'm not sure if this will work, but if you're on Win7 and haven't disabled the previous versions feature, then right click on your KSP folder and go to properties. There should be a "previous versions" tab and if you click on that it may have a few past versions of that folder. You might be able to restore one of the previous versions and recover your saves.rar like that.

(if that does work, I'd suggest copying the saves.rar out and then deleting the folder and re-installing as the restore may put things into an odd state)

[Mapoko]

I'm not sure if this will work, but if you're on Win7 and haven't disabled the previous versions feature, then right click on your KSP folder and go to properties. There should be a "previous versions" tab and if you click on that it may have a few past versions of that folder. You might be able to restore one of the previous versions and recover your saves.rar like that.

(if that does work, I'd suggest copying the saves.rar out and then deleting the folder and re-installing as the restore may put things into an odd state)

That might have been a great thing, but the reason I reinstalled was that I moved few of my steam games to my SSD, so the path (and the folder) are not the same anymore.

[Jaeleth]

If recovering files is the issue you can try UBUNTU Linux running from CD to boot your PC without writing over any files and then use a HDD recovery tool running over Linux to try to recover those specific files.

If you are not comfortable with Linux and have a friend who can help you can remove your HDD, physically from your PC, get a SATA (assuming is SATA HDD) docking station, insert your HDD in it, connect it to your friend's PC and have him/her run an HDD recovery tool on you Hard Drive.

[Mapoko]

Well, Thank you guys for the suggestions, but there is not a simple one and I do not think it is worth the effort. I already had a mun and minmus landing on the new hard save, so it is all about time now. thank you very much for the help !