Removed Parts, Ship Gone, Replaced Parts, Ship Recoverable?

[Herbert McCheese-Wang]

If I put all the necessary parts back, why won't the ship reload?

[Claw]

What parts and in what way did you remove them? The files? From the ship in the VAB/SPH?

Are you talking about loading in the VAB? Loading in-game?

[KerbMav]

Crafts deleted from the game world are lost.

Crafts blueprints with missing parts are simply not loadable.

Save early, save often - make backups (esp. before serious changes to the game itself).

[Kerba Fett]

When you removed the parts and loaded the game, you would have gotten a message about not being abled to load ships due to missing parts. Then the game deleted those ships and rewrote the save. By the time you re added the parts again, the ships they were on were deleted.

IF you haven't done another quicksave, (F5) you might be able to reload your last quicksave (F9) and get your ships back.

[Herbert McCheese-Wang]

They were KW Rocketry Structural parts, I thought I wasn't using them, put it turns out my space station had one of them. I'll see if I can find the ship blueprint and paste it back into the save file.