Content not saved when testing mission

[Nadel]

I don't have exact steps to reproduce this issue, but I make content weekly for a group and I hit this multiple times per month: Sometimes, some changes are not saved when selecting "fly mission" from the mission editor, even if you choose yes to save at the prompt. These changes are then missing from the editor after the test flight. I seem to hit this most often when editing triggers, but it's possible that's just where I end up testing the most. I hit this issue with autosave disabled. I enabled autosave, and still hit the issue, where I have lost progress that definitely should have been autosaved.

What do you need from me the next time I hit this to make the bug actionable?

I can work around the fact that it's 2022 and there's no undo function or box select. I can work around the fact that groups containing supply trucks have them changed to flak 18's if you change the group's coalition, even if the new coalition is joint task force red/blue. I can work around that units placed on a radar's search radius cannot be selected without zooming in because the radar circle "captures" the click. I can work around that sometimes when selecting a unit, it is immediately moved to the left by a fixed amount on the screen. But randomly undoing 30 minutes or more of my work is unacceptable. When this happens, I stop mission editing, and reconsider if this is a good use of my time. Please expand your testing for the mission editor, and add the features we need to efficiently create content for your customers.

Edited August 16, 2022 by Nadel

[dark_wood]

Hi, maybe the auto back-up feature is messing your savings? Try to disabled it, see what happens.

Hope it helps

[Nadel]

Hi dark_wood,

Thanks for taking the time to respond. As I mentioned in the original post, I've encountered this issue both with and without autosave enabled. I'd actually enabled autosave in the hopes that it would limit the amount of work that I could lose because (presumably) the mission would not be reverted to content older than than the most recent autosave. However, this does not appear to be the case, and my work can be lost at any time back to some previous state, unrelated to autosave.

[Flappie]

Hi, I'm experiencing this as well, but I still don't know how it happens exactly. The next time it happens to you, please exit DCS and attach dcs.log file from "Saved Games/DCS.../Logs".

[Nadel]

dcs.log

Hit the issue again after making some drawing changes and changing some units. It took me a few minutes to notice, so the error should have occurred in the last 10 minutes of the log. A blue UH-1 I deleted reappeared, and several circles I drew disappeared.

[Nadel]

Mariana Trench Run_bug.miz

Hit again while editing a different mission. Added some boats and modified some triggers, flew the mission to test, came back out and the ships/trigger changes were gone. This is the miz file after hitting the bug.

dcs.log