Game Crashed and will not Load Saved Any Saves

[ZapB]

I was launching a rocket on the launch pad, clicked revert, the box came up that said revert to Launch/VAB/Cancel.  Those buttons would press, but nothing would happen when I pressed them.  I Alt-F4 to quit, but now when launching KSP this screenshot is as far as I get.  Clicking Load on any of my modes doesn't do anything.  What can I do to fix this?

I guess I'll try reinstalling...   ... Reinstalling had no effect...

 

 

I had such a large career... I'm gonna be sad if its not recoverable...

Edited September 27, 2019 by ZapB
Reinstalling had no effect... :(

[Geonovast]

Greetings, @ZapB, and welcome aboard!

Bad news: It looks like you do have a corrupted save.

Good news: You should be able to recover at least most of your progress.

Inside the save's folder, there's another folder called "Backup".  In there should be 5 save files, with date and time as part of their filename.

In the save's main folder, find the file called persistent.sfs, and rename it to something else - like persistent-org.sfs.  Just in case.

Now copy the most current save from the Backup folder to the main folder.  Rename that file to persistent.sfs.  Then try to re-load the game.  If that doesn't work, delete the new persistent.sfs and try the second most recent, and so on. There's a good chance one of them will bring your game back.  You might lose a couple hours worth of progress, but that's much better than the whole thing.

[ZapB]

Good lord you've done it.

 

Thank you.  Many Kerbals were recovered this day.