[Posila] [for 0.16] [0.15.13] Saves don't show up after auto-update

[yuo123]

On the first launch after an auto-update (the restart done automatically), going to Play>Load Game shows no saves (as if I have never saved a game).
It fixes itself after a restart, but is still a big nuisance because you have to sit through the loading screen again after you've just done it once.

It is possibly related to the fact that I have non-English characters in my saves path - many programs have problems with that. However, it's hard for me to test since Factorio saves are in %AppData%, which is in the user directory and therefore contains the windows username in its path (is there a way to change the save location?)

This issue has existed for some time now.

[posila]

Thanks for the report.
I think it is because updater asks for elevated permissions and the final Factorio process inherits it too, so if you have non-administrator user and run the game under different user who is administrator, it will search for saves in administator's %AppData%
Could that be the reason?

[yuo123]

Yeah, definitely - didn't think of that. That's another unusual thing about my system which tends to mess with things - my user is not an administrator. I ran the game as administrator, and sure enough, it had the same effect. I can test further by putting a symlink from the administrator's %AppData%\Factorio to my own if necessary, but I'd need a way to trigger an auto-update.

If this is indeed the problem, you may be able to fix it by following the saves.lnk file created in the install directory rather than using the path directly.

[posila]

Fixed for 0.16. The updated game will be relaunched without administrator rights and under your user.