Corrupted save file

[DarthWinnie]

My Ironman save file is corrupted, please help to fix it.

Main save file is attached, backup can be added upon request but it's also corrupted.

The only mode used for the game is Europa Aesthetic.

 

[AndrewT]

I'm sorry but we won't be able to help here, we do not offer a save game repair service! Not to mention the fact it is modded. You could try the user mods forum.

Good luck with that!

 

[DarthWinnie]

Hey AndrewT!

The mode is UI only and it does not affect the save file itself and it allows achievements and stuff.

Any tips how I can recover the corrupted save file? It's somewhat unfair I can do nothing about the glitch in the game that ruins my couple hundred hours campaign, don't you think?

 

[grotaclas]

In most cases of corrupted saves, there is information loss, so there is no way how paradox could restore saves even if they wanted to. And even in the few cases in which the information could be restored, it would be prohibitively expansive to offer such a service.
I had a look at your save. The province information(e.g. who owns what) seems to be ok, but many nations are broken. For example for your country, the game only has the following information(which might not even be correct):

        government_rank=2
        power_projection={
            target="ADU"
            modifier="is_hegemon"
            current=25.000
        }
        trade_embargoed_by={
            TUR
        }
        score_rank={
            187 197 187
        }
        score_place=188
        active_relations={
            TUR={
                has_claim=yes
            }
            BRI={
                has_colony_claim=yes
            }
            FRA={
                has_colony_claim=yes
            }
        }
        country_missions={
            mission_slot={
                granada_development_missions   andalusia_slot_1_missions
            }
            mission_slot={
                granada_slot_2_missions   adu_slot_2_missions
            }
            mission_slot={
                granada_slot_3_missions   andalusia_slot_3_missions   andalusia_slot_3_missions_b   andalusia_slot_3_missions_c
            }
            mission_slot={
                granada_slot_4_missions   andalusia_slot_4_missions   andalusia_slot_4_missions_b   andalusia_slot_4_missions_c
            }
            mission_slot={
                granada_slot_5_missions   andalusia_slot_5_missions
            }
        }

The rest is blank or has default values.
Your save has some broken foreign_heir sections, so your corruption was probably caused by the same thing as the following bugreport which has some more information: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-this-time-and-greyed-out-play-button.1505878

As a general recommendation I suggest that you regularly create additional copies of your saves and store them in a different place. Then you won't lose your whole campaign in case of save corruption or another bug or a broken harddisk(if the other location is not on the same disk).

Disclaimer: I'm not working for Paradox. I'm just trying to help people.