commander lost help please
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commander lost help please
hi. i have been playing oolite for months now and when i did the ionics mission .galaxy2.i docked and to did not notice all my credits had gone .saved the game then when i noticed all my credits had dissapered i went into oolite saves and edited my credits back.NOW when i load my commander its not there but it is still in oolite saves.please help. i have tryed everything but still no commander.there must be another part in oolite saves that your credits match. I WANT MY COMMANDER BACK PLEASE SOMEONE HELP. THANKS .DAZER.
Welcome to the boards! (The friendliest this side of Riedquat, apparently)
You probably edited your save game with window's notepad.
As I said a few million times already, notepad is evil:
It adds hidden characters to a file, and when saved it also adds a .txt extension to the file - which in most systems is actually hidden too from the user.
How to undo the damage: remove all the hidden characters, which prevent Oolite from reading the save game properly, and make sure the save game is called commanderName.save-game as opposed to commanderName.save-game.txt
To remove the hidden characters you should use a proper text editor, like the free notepad++ (available from sourceforge, google for it)
If memory serves me well, you need to change every single hidden extra return character at the end of each line. Change the view options inside notepad++ so you can see the hidden characters...
Hope this helps.
You probably edited your save game with window's notepad.
As I said a few million times already, notepad is evil:
It adds hidden characters to a file, and when saved it also adds a .txt extension to the file - which in most systems is actually hidden too from the user.
How to undo the damage: remove all the hidden characters, which prevent Oolite from reading the save game properly, and make sure the save game is called commanderName.save-game as opposed to commanderName.save-game.txt
To remove the hidden characters you should use a proper text editor, like the free notepad++ (available from sourceforge, google for it)
If memory serves me well, you need to change every single hidden extra return character at the end of each line. Change the view options inside notepad++ so you can see the hidden characters...
Hope this helps.
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Please do not perform the conversion manually. Instead, use the built-in menu function from Notepad++Kaks wrote:If memory serves me well, you need to change every single hidden extra return character at the end of each line. Change the view options inside notepad++ so you can see the hidden characters...
Format -> Convert to Unix
or
Format -> Convert to Mac
The Unix format is what the save game starts out as using, so convet it back to the unix format and you will be set.
lost commander
thanks everyone for your help i got me commander back. YIPPE
Yes, which half of the universe do we want to be in?
Decisions, decisions!
Decisions, decisions!
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