Saved games not visible in "Load" screen

[Mad Elf]

Hi,

Not sure what could have caused it, but recently my install of KSP refuses to list the saved versions of one of my saved games when in the "Load" screen.

To be absolutely clear:

• I have two saved games.
• Neither of them has any issues with gameplay.
• Both of them load correctly from the "Resume Saved" list.
• Both of them quicksave and quickload correctly.
• Both of them manually save to the relevant game folder correctly.
• When in-game and I go to the "Load Save..." option, one of them lists all saved versions of the game, the other's list is empty.

I can get around the problem by copying the file I want to load, renaming it to persistent.sfs, and loading it from the main "Resume Saved" list, but that's obviously less than ideal.

I can't see any permission differences between the two game folders, but their contents are rather different:

• The "fail" game has a Subassemblies directory; the other does not.
• The "fail" game has files named KACJumpToShip.sfs, zKACBACKUP[date]-persistent.sfs, and zKACBACKUP[date]-quicksave.sfs; the other does not.
• The "fail" game also has vastly more manually-saved games (63) than the other (10).
• The "fail" game's save files are also considerably larger than the other's: 7-9Mb as opposed to 0.5-2Mb.

I haven't included any log snapshots as I can't see how the problem is caused by anything internal to KSP itself, but if someone can tell me which logs might have any helpful info, I'll add them.

My KSP install has the following details:

OS: Windows 10 Pro
KSP: v1.1.3.1289 (64-bit)
CKAN: v1.24.0
Mods:

B9PartSwitch 1.4.3
InfernalRobotics-LegacyParts 2.0.5
EasyVesselSwitch 1.0.3.0
HeatControl 0.3.2
HooliganLabsAirships 5.4
HyperEdit 1.5.2.1
InfernalRobotics 2.0.5
CommunityResourcePack 0.6.6.0
KAS 0.5.9.0
KerbalAtomics 0.2.6
KIS 1.2.12.0
MarkIVSpaceplaneSystem 2.2.1
ModuleManager 2.6.25
TweakScale 2.2.13
CommunityTechTree 2.4
CryoTanks 0.2.6
DeployableEngines 0.2.6
FirespitterCore 7.3.0
NearFutureProps 0.5.1
NearFutureConstruction 0.6.4
NearFutureElectrical 0.7.8
NearFutureElectrical-Core 0.7.8
NearFutureElectrical-DecayingRTGs 0.7.8
NearFuturePropulsion 0.7.4
NearFutureSolar 0.6.2
NearFutureSolar-Core 0.6.2
NearFutureSpacecraft 0.5.1
CommunityTerrainTexturePack 1.0.4
xScience 5.0
ModularFlightIntegrator 1.1.6.0
AtomicAge 3.2
KerbalEngineerRedux 1.1.1.0
CryoEngines 0.4.2
B9-PWings-Fork 0.40.7
Toolbar 1.7.12
ModularRocketSystem 1.12.8
SpaceY-Expanded 1.1.11
SpaceY-Lifters 1.13.1
KSPInterstellarExtended 1.9.11
InterstellarFuelSwitch 2.1.4
InterstellarFuelSwitch-Core 2.1.4
Kopernicus 1.1.3-1
KerbalJointReinforcement 3.2
StockBugFixPlus 1.1.3b.1
HangarExtender 3.4.8
HangarGrid 0.3.0

 

[Xd the great]

1. Backup the problematic save.

2. Delete the extra trash folders and files.

3. Retry.

Of this does not help, im outta ideas.

[Superfluous J]

I'd suggest (after backing up of course) deleting the *.loadmeta files from the troublesome save.

[Mad Elf]

Ta @Xd the great; that was basically what I needed to do.

Turns out that there was one .sfs file out of the ~60 that was corrupt, and that was stopping the entire list from being loaded.

I'm rather disappointed that the load mechanism is so brittle, but there you are...