The mysterious case of the exploding save file... (Clue: It's 90% TravelLogData!)

[schlosrat]

For a while my save files were a few around 1 MB, then they were 2-is (briefly) then 3, then 4, 5, 6, 11, 10(?), 24, and then suddenly 64 MB! This after just a few days of play.

During this time I've got a small number of craft flying and I've been cleaning up debris so that should be an issue. I've got a grand total of 9 probes out there - each one a small little comm sat. All other ships have been returned home and recovered. All debris destroyed. And yet my save file is so large it's nuts! At this rate it will absorb my whole boot drive in a month or two...

I managed to open one of the 24 MB files and found a section for "TravelLogData" that begins on line 82104 and doesn't end until line 850169, so about 90% of my save file is now stuff like this.

      {
        "TravelObjectId": "377f180e-7bcd-4bb7-a86a-18993713619b",
        "Statistics": {
          "DistanceTravelled": 709149133.06010258,
          "GroundDistanceTravelled": 0.30224670920109986,
          "MaxAltitude": 9570799.8980771285,
          "MaxGeeForce": 20.522240062580277,
          "MaxSpeed": 2794.7056503540139,
          "MaxSpeedOverGround": 234.89637282042187,
          "MaxGroundSpeed": 0.52639606893237434
        }
      },

I'm concerned that if there isn't a way to manage this then campaigns will be short and brutal, and end in a very slow computer with no HD space remaining. I predict the winner's will be Western Digital, Seagate, and Synology.
 

EDIT: For what it's worth, I deleted that 90% bloat and made a test save that seems to open fine. I just kept this part of that section, and it loaded fine and seemed to work fine. No telling what fresh new hell I may have created for myself, but time will tell. I suppose this could be called a workaround, but shesh! What a pain...

"TravelLogData": {
    "Objects": [
    ]
  }

 

Edited February 28, 2023 by schlosrat

[D4rkFr4g]

This is same as what was found here: