Crashes upon opening "load"
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Crashes upon opening "load"
I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.6, and trying to play Wesnoth 12.6 (and I've also tried 12.5). I had set my auto-saves to infinite and hadn't bothered to clear them out, so I was starting to have a ton of them, and it was making the game really slow whenever I tried to pull up the load page. Everything else, including actually loading a game, was perfectly fine, but just actually opening the list of saved games. So I decided to clean it out a bit, and deleted a hundred saves or so, and decided that I would delete a few dozen every time I loaded a game, so that I would gradually clear out the files and increase the speed. I then went to preferences and changed max autosaves from infinite to 60, but this didn't seem to make any difference, including after quitting out and reopening. I then loaded my most recent game, played one turn, and then had to close out.
The next day, when I tried to open the list of saved games, it froze briefly and then crashed. I tried multiple times and this still happened, without ever pulling up the saved games. I went to preferences and set max autosaves back to infinite, but this made no difference. I tried to start a couple different new campaigns, both mainline and add-on, but the game crashed as soon as it got to the first save, when the objectives would have popped up. I tried deleting Wesnoth from my computer and redownloading, but the redownloaded version still contained all my add-ons and preferences, etc, and crashed in the same way. I downloaded the latest 13.x, but it didn't have many of the campaigns I wanted to play, and had some other issues to be expected with development models, so I got rid of it. I tried wiping every bit of Wesnoth off my computer, but after redownloading from the website it still had the same issue. Most recently, I tried downloading 12.5 instead, but it also has the same problem. Most recently, I tried removing all the add-on campaigns which I had completed, but the game still crashed when I tried to get to the saved games.
So basically, what should I do? Is there a way for Wesnoth to "forget" what I've done, kind of like a factory reset, so I could simply start from scratch in terms of my campaigns and add-ons, etc, and remove all saves? Is there some other solution, besides just playing on 13.x?
The next day, when I tried to open the list of saved games, it froze briefly and then crashed. I tried multiple times and this still happened, without ever pulling up the saved games. I went to preferences and set max autosaves back to infinite, but this made no difference. I tried to start a couple different new campaigns, both mainline and add-on, but the game crashed as soon as it got to the first save, when the objectives would have popped up. I tried deleting Wesnoth from my computer and redownloading, but the redownloaded version still contained all my add-ons and preferences, etc, and crashed in the same way. I downloaded the latest 13.x, but it didn't have many of the campaigns I wanted to play, and had some other issues to be expected with development models, so I got rid of it. I tried wiping every bit of Wesnoth off my computer, but after redownloading from the website it still had the same issue. Most recently, I tried downloading 12.5 instead, but it also has the same problem. Most recently, I tried removing all the add-on campaigns which I had completed, but the game still crashed when I tried to get to the saved games.
So basically, what should I do? Is there a way for Wesnoth to "forget" what I've done, kind of like a factory reset, so I could simply start from scratch in terms of my campaigns and add-ons, etc, and remove all saves? Is there some other solution, besides just playing on 13.x?
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Re: Crashes upon opening "load"
You can find your userdata directory by following these instructions, so you could try moving all of your saves somewhere else. You could also try moving your preferences file, as well as deleting the save_index file.
Additionally, it would be useful to be able to see if anything gets logged after crashing. The instructions for finding your log file are here.
It would also be helpful if you posted the issues you encountered with 1.13 - significantly fewer people play the development version, and even obvious problems can be missed if nobody reports them
Additionally, it would be useful to be able to see if anything gets logged after crashing. The instructions for finding your log file are here.
It would also be helpful if you posted the issues you encountered with 1.13 - significantly fewer people play the development version, and even obvious problems can be missed if nobody reports them
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Re: Crashes upon opening "load"
It popped up a bunch of errors which may or may not be related when I initially opened Wesnoth. Upon clicking load, it just logged out.
I'll see if I can figure something out with the userdate directory.
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Re: Crashes upon opening "load"
Alright, I tried moving all the saves (14000+!) elsewhere, and while then if I pressed load, it (correctly) told me I had no saved files, when I tried to open a new campaign, it crashed as before when I got to the point where it would have had the first save. I then deleted the save_index file, and now it works, so thank you!