What can I use to edit JSON savegame? (Landed bug - edit to "Orbiting")?

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

Got hit with the dreaded 'landed state' bug.  Got the ship up to orbital speed - but no orbit lines; also every time I go back to Tracking Station then revert to the ship, it's down to 10m/s (from 130 - orbiting (not) Minmus).  Biome thingy on the left of the screen claims the ship is landed.

So - after trying to force the game to get the ship orbiting... I'm down to editing the save.

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What do I use to open it and edit it?

[Scarecrow71]

Have you quit the game and restarted?  That sometimes helps.  Even quicksave/load might take care of it.

[krbvax]

27 minutes ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

What do I use to open it and edit it?

Any text editor (like Notepad) should be fine. Search for the craft name (it should be next to an "assemblyName" tag), then search for "Landed" below that (on a "Situation" tag), change the Landed to Orbiting, and save - optionally to a different ".json" filename just for safety.

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

59 minutes ago, krbvax said:

Any text editor (like Notepad) should be fine. Search for the craft name (it should be next to an "assemblyName" tag), then search for "Landed" below that (on a "Situation" tag), change the Landed to Orbiting, and save - optionally to a different ".json" filename just for safety.

Thanks.  I have Notepad - but Windows did not want to open the file via it for some reason.  Made me guess there was some kind of special editor required.

 

I'll try from within Notepad.