[EMERGENCY] I just deleted a butt load of ships because I changed up my mods list

[Fireheart318]

Can I get them back? I've just killed off hundreds of Kerbals and wasted 16+ hours of work!

[Alshain]

Maybe, if you have a quicksave that's fairly recent.  Reinstall your mods and try to load it.
 

Some mods have a persistence backup (Alarm Clock I think)

Edited August 22, 2016 by Alshain

[Fireheart318]

1 minute ago, Alshain said:

Maybe, if you have a quicksave that's fairly recent.  Reinstall your mods and try to load it.
 

Some mods have a persistence backup (Alarm Clock I think)

 

I do have a quicksave. Let's hope this works...

[Alshain]

14 minutes ago, Fireheart318 said:

I do have a quicksave. Let's hope this works...

It should if it isn't too old.  The quicksaves are really just copies of persistence.sfs.

Edited August 22, 2016 by Alshain

[RocketPilot573]

There should also be a "Backups" folder in your save folder that actually has recent copies of your save if the quicksave doesn't work.

 

-Rocket

[Fireheart318]

23 minutes ago, Alshain said:

It should if it isn't too old.  The quicksaves are really just copies of persistence.sfs.

I always knew quicksaving every time I spawn a craft would come in handy. I just thought it would let me go back to the runway instead of whichever ship I happened to be crashing into the Mun

[mythbusters844]

how'd you delete your saves and ships by just changing up your mods? they're in completely different folders, it shouldn't be even possible. did you take out a mod and got a "Ship Invalid" message on load?

[linuxgurugamer]

If he removed parts mod, and then started the game, when he tries to load the save the game itself will delete the ships due to the missing parts

[Aloriel]

The best solution I have found for when this happens:

(Windows)

CTRL-Shift-ESC

End task.

(Mac)
Force quit. You can do this several ways, one is in the Apple menu, the other is by right clicking on KSP in the smartbar.

On other devices, I don't know how you'd do this, but there should be a way.

 

If you do this immediately, it won't have a chance to auto-save. You'll load from what you had last time you played. Just make sure all the mods are present.

[Deddly]

Since you're looking for tech support, I moved your thread to Tech Support, @Fireheart318. Hope you get some good advice in here and can get your save back!

[Ruedii]

As of the 1.1.x series, KSP saves several persistence backups if you want to load them.