How do I recover my save file?

[Wjolcz]

The title says all, but here's the story:

So I just finished this little pretty station around Kerbin orbit:

Then I decided to move Sabersky (the ship) from my other Refuelling Station on a lower orbit:

While slowing down to dock I... Well... I crashed into the first station. Here's a pic of some remainings:

And then i clicked F5 and have no idea how to edit stuff to get back my save file. Pwease halp ;_;

[Dasemay]

well if you already did a quick save just press f9 i think, but if not then there is no way to get it back.

[hotmailcompany52]

Just use hyperedit toget it back up there.

[Wjolcz]

I hit F5 accidentally because I wanted to hit F9 to reload the last quicksave.

And it was not one piece station to just get it back up there using HyperEdit :/

Scott in his vids mentioned many times how he edited save files to get his stuff back into the game, so there must be some way to retrieve it.

[maltesh]

I imagine Scott Manley uses some kind of version control setup to constantly keep backups of his saves so that he can go to the old backups and copy/paste objects inadvertently destroyed by mishap, or completely restore his saves to an earlier version should that be necessary.

KSP doesn't include that ability by default, however.

[Wjolcz]

Oooooh... That sucks. At least i took some pics before completely destrying it .

[NeoMorph]

I think I have killed about 20 stations in various orbits due to random stuff (and lack of skill) and forgot to save. Unfortunately when you hit F5 AFTER the event you lost the save. Shame there is no grandfather, father, son saving method.

[Wjolcz]

I think I have killed about 20 stations in various orbits due to random stuff (and lack of skill) and forgot to save. Unfortunately when you hit F5 AFTER the event you lost the save. Shame there is no grandfather, father, son saving method.

Actually I've deleted my quicksave.sfs file. I'll see if that changed anything, but not now. Probably tomorrow.