AZZY09 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Last night whilst my game was being saved the battery completely died so I didnt go back on the laptop till now and I cant 'load last game'. If I click on load game I can see my file there and when I try opening it says ''not well-formed (invalid token) at line1 of last_saved_game.xml'' Is there anything you can possibly do to fix this? Otherwise I've just wasted all them months playing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidmonkey Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 if the battery died whilst saving it doesnt look good, also do you not use the Rolling autosave? so theres a back up to go to Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian2oo9 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Happened to me last week, that save file is corrupted unfortunatley. Another example of the importance of a multiple file rolling auto-save. Sorry bud... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZZY09 Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Unfortunately I turned the Autosave off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
milnerpoint Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 sounds like your games a goner im afraid, never turn of rolling save!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebirds4life Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Milnerpoint so desperate to become a mod, commenting on everything in GD, fp Acidburn owned you. And OP, I had the same for my Liverpool save, it'll never return, RIP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZZY09 Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Cant I send the file to the people that work on these forums so they can try and do something to it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian2oo9 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Cant I send the file to the people that work on these forums so they can try and do something to it? Haha if only! Nah i'm afraid it's dead. You're best using it as an opportunity to try a new challenge. Take on a team you've never been before, you might find that it was a blessing in disguise! Either that or you'll forever mourn the one that got away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidmonkey Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 as far as i know they only take a look at saves thqat have corrupted for unknown reasons as it may related to a bug or bigger issue, but yours was just down to flat battery sorry mate i think you need to start again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
milnerpoint Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Milnerpoint so desperate to become a mod, commenting on everything in GD, fp Acidburn owned you.And OP, I had the same for my Liverpool save, it'll never return, RIP. eh????!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZZY09 Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Haha if only! Nah i'm afraid it's dead. You're best using it as an opportunity to try a new challenge. Take on a team you've never been before, you might find that it was a blessing in disguise! Either that or you'll forever mourn the one that got away. New challenge?! This challenge was already a perfect one.. I was Bradford City in the year 2016 in the Championship at 14th place. Two more years and I could have been in the Premier League! O well f*ck it, I'll just wait for FM 2012 now.. thanks for the replies everyone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZZY09 Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 as far as i know they only take a look at saves thqat have corrupted for unknown reasons as it may related to a bug or bigger issue, but yours was just down to flat battery sorry mate i think you need to start again So they do look at files? Hopefully they read this and do something.. I'll even pay you(SI) if it can be fixed.. I put so many hours into this file Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggusD Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 So they do look at files? Hopefully they read this and do something.. I'll even pay you(SI) if it can be fixed.. I put so many hours into this file Well, the game overwrites the previous save, so I think there is really nothing they can do about that one. BTW 4 seasons isn't "so many hours" to a FM fan - people have played 20 seasons of FM11.3 already, it seems! I have a 3-file rolling save and autosave every week - and it is worth every extra second this takes. I feel for you, though - I felt sad when my previous computer gave up the ghost (I thought) but I managed to start it up this weekend and copy the save file onto a memstick, downloaded FM10 and voila my 9-seasons-Southampton save was back! Good times If you feel like quitting, do so - after a few weeks or months the desire to play again pops up, trust me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZZY09 Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Well, the game overwrites the previous save, so I think there is really nothing they can do about that one. BTW 4 seasons isn't "so many hours" to a FM fan - people have played 20 seasons of FM11.3 already, it seems! I have a 3-file rolling save and autosave every week - and it is worth every extra second this takes. I feel for you, though - I felt sad when my previous computer gave up the ghost (I thought) but I managed to start it up this weekend and copy the save file onto a memstick, downloaded FM10 and voila my 9-seasons-Southampton save was back! Good times If you feel like quitting, do so - after a few weeks or months the desire to play again pops up, trust me Good reply, thanks.. And how did you manage do get your Southampton file working again? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
football fanza Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 does any1 know when fm12 is going 2 be released? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian2oo9 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 does any1 know when fm12 is going 2 be released? Ooooooh, not really relevant to this topic though is it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
football fanza Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 oh soz im new 2 this still getting use 2 it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidmonkey Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 oh soz im new 2 this still getting use 2 it dont worry about it dont use Text speak either as theres a fair few guys on here who dont have english as their first language it might not have loaded if the pc was unable to allocate enough resources if it was an old pc, i know ive had it as i got further on with old machines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaru5 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 surely if you knew your laptop battery was dying you could have hibernated/suspended the laptop until you could stick it on charge before it died completely? You wouldn't have had to save the game at all then as hibernate saves the computers state at the time, running apps/games included... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja Monkey Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 It has happened to me that and if you go into the "load game" sometimes FM will relaise your game won't loada nd bring the back up copy of the game so you can carry on from where you last saved it from before the crash Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Football Manager. Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 surely if you knew your laptop battery was dying you could have hibernated/suspended the laptop until you could stick it on charge before it died completely? You wouldn't have had to save the game at all then as hibernate saves the computers state at the time, running apps/games included... hindsight is a wonderful thing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinger061 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Unfortunately you are another in the long, long line of people who learn to turn on rolling auto-save the hard way. The good news is its only a mistake you make once Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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