unexpected loss of science, mission, crew, ships, career and games

[DennyC]

When opening KSP and recalling a saved game, I received the message "You have incompatible saves in your folder." and was offered the choices of "Delete" or "Cancel".

Catastrophe.

Choosing "cancel" produced a blank window and a KSP lockup. No response to any key.

Tried again, and unwisely chose "Delete". It deleted EVERYTHING, not just the problem saves. It deleted the entire career and everything else I had saved, leaving me with a default saves folder (default, scenarios, training.) Didn't put it in the trash, either. I have a backup in Time Machine, but I lost two weeks worth of work (well, play...)

What happened?

Is there any recovery from this message, or is that the end of it? How can I avoid this destructive failure?

Mac OSX 10.7

KSP version 1.0.2.842

Kerbal Engineer, Alarm Clock, Precise node

Stage recovery (not used)

Trigger Tech (not used)

[technicalfool]

Moved to Support (modded installs).

And that really is an awful mess-up. Honestly I don't think there's much can be done about deleted saves if even the directories with the various quicksave.sfs files have gone. As I understand it, there are automatic save-backup mods around. Hopefully someone in the support subforum has a better answer for you though.

[peter1981]

I had this once a couple of months ago hang up followed by CTD. When I inspected the persistent save file it was 0k's and blank nothing else there so you may have lost the data before the choice anyway.

I don't think you'll be able to recover the data through KSP

If you have a back-up system then try that.

I had to restart my career completely -- just leaving the Kerbin SOI now >:-|