Update killed my campaign progress, Log OK!

[aairon]

The title say's it the last update seems to have lost connection to my campaign progress yet my log shows medals as well as kills and all stats are still there.

All campaigns show 0 and inactive. I have tried restoring from saved folders but the campaigns don't seem to take.

Maybe some advice which .lua I need to transfer from the saved ones just to restore the campaign progress, win 7 64 if that matters.

Thanks in advance.

Edited January 24, 2018 by aairon

[draconus]

I confirm having stats intact in logbook but missing campaigns completed. I had 1 there, now it says 0. Luckily I noticed it after last update when starting new campaign again.

I'm on 1.5 Release version, Win7/64 too.

[Rudel_chw]

The campaigns progress is stored on logbook.lua located on saved games/dcs/mission editor/ ... you should be able to recover it from a backup

[aairon]

The campaigns progress is stored on logbook.lua located on saved games/dcs/mission editor/ ... you should be able to recover it from a backup

I agree you should be able to do that, but every attempt I have tried results in ONLY the LOG restored NOT the CAMPAIGNS history I had one completed and most had many missions completed.

So if you are aware of a successful method can you please explain how you did it?

REPLACING logbook.lua only restores the Log and all the medals and kill records, I have hundreds of kills but 0 missions 0 campaigns?

 

This has happened several times in the past with these "updates" they tend to screw up my past history in the past replacing that one file seemed to work, now it won't work.

Edited January 24, 2018 by aairon

[Rudel_chw]

So if you are aware of a successful method can you please explain how you did it?

REPLACING logbook.lua only restores the Log and all the medals and kill records, I have hundreds of kills but 0 missions 0 campaigns?

 

 

If you look inside logbook.lua using notepad++ (dont use windows notepad) you will see that its divided in sections:

 

 

One section for each pilot.

 

 

Within the pilot section, there is one section for its identification data (name, call sign, etc), one section for its medals (the section name is awards), one section for its airplane statistics (hours of flight with each plane, etc), and one section for the Campaigns called "games".

 

 

Within the games section, there is one entry for each campaign ... where among other data is the stage at which you are currently at.

 

 

 

It seems that somehow your logfile is corrupt, since it shows the normal logbook stats, but not the campaigns.

[aairon]

It seems that somehow your logfile is corrupt

Well yes but it happens often and if there's no way to fix it I'll be forced to dump this sim, I'm far too old to be messing with broken shit I didn't make myself.

Thanks for the info on the structure I'll see if there's a way to manually fix it.

Yes I always use note ++

 

If anyone who knows a bit how these .lua files are called it would help me I'll start looking in some .lua that runs before this one perhaps it's been altered in some way I'll try a simple compare with another, I guess anything I do can't hurt it worse lol. I think it's pretty sad that this isn't such a uncommon thing.

Edited January 25, 2018 by aairon