craft files

[goesselc]

i think i messed up my craft files the metaload files are there but the craft files always disappear i've tried deleting every file and restarting ksp i have one idea why it may have happened and for some reason all fils in the ship/vab all files changed to note pad files i dont know what files they were originally or how to convert them back but i hope you can help 

[OHara]

Maybe, you use Microsoft Windows and its default behavior of hiding the '.craft' part of the filename after you first open a file with that extension. 

(You can use Alt-V H F  in English-locale Windows to change that option: "hide file extensions for known types".  The keyboard shortcuts (sometimes) change between languages, so the menu steps will be the local language translation of   'View'    'show/Hide'   'File extensions')

In that case, your .craft files would still be there, and still perfectly usable by KSP, but showing the Notepad icon and shortened filenames.

If I turn that option on, I get the file listing at right, because once I opened a .craft file with vi.

Edited March 16, 2021 by OHara
The keyboard shortcut letters (sometimes) change between languages.

[4x4cheesecake]

^This

Though, I'm stopping by to comment, that this:

5 hours ago, OHara said:

You can use Alt-V H F to change that option: "hide file extensions for known types

is probably just true for the englisch version of windows (there might be some coincidental matches in other languages). On a german system, this combination would be "Alt-A Y O"

Maybe you want to add the captions of the buttons this combination will trigger, so this may also be helpful for others in other languages

(I would translate it from german to english like "View -> Options -> Change folder- and search options" but I guess the original englisch caption would be better, so it doesn't need to be translated twice to get like spanish, french, whatever)

[OHara]

1 hour ago, 4x4cheesecake said:

[Alt-V H F] is probably just true for the english version of windows

Oops.  I forgot about that, even though I sometimes need to use Windows with other localizations at work. 

Some parts  translate; some parts do not.  The German is Ansicht, Dateinamenerweiterungen but the shortcut is  Alt-A H F 

[4x4cheesecake]

9 minutes ago, OHara said:

Oops.  I forgot about that, even though I sometimes need to use Windows with other localizations at work. 

Some parts  translate; some parts do not.  The German is Ansicht, Dateinamenerweiterungen but the shortcut is  Alt-A H F 

Oh wow, I didn't even notice there is actually a checkbox for the file extension right in the explorer window because it doesn't show up until you resize the window (at least in my case, my default window size seem to be too small)  And the same option can be found in the "view" tab of the folderoptions (?) (Ordneroptionen), so I thought you actually want to go for that one 

Anyway, I guess it's sorted out that there might be a difference between different system languages and how this option can be found

Edited March 16, 2021 by 4x4cheesecake