Evidently, yes - very possible. And it explains some of the other items I've lost as well.

My apologies for wasting your time.

PS Is there any way you could make it a little more obvious when things are being transferred there automatically? Would hate to look like a complete goombah and come back ...

I haven't been able to reliably duplicate this issue, so I cannot say exactly what the cause is. I can, however, say that I am playing a multiplayer game hosted on a headless server (on my machine, with one remote player not on the same LAN - though this person is superfluous as I produced the ...

I've only had a small chance to test, but so far it appears to be successful. Launching from the actual location (G drive) worked fine (as expected), and launching from the link location (C drive) also worked. Toyed around with it for a dozen or so saves (making sure the data would be different each ...

Indeed. I should have tested that specifically. I just now tried renaming the saves folder to "save", created a junction to "saves" and it was quite happy using it.

However, when moving the "saves" folder to a different drive entirely and linking to it, the hang occurred once more. It seems that it ...

Unfortunately I'm unable to search (every time I go to page 2 it tells me I cannot search for a few minutes) so I cannot tell if this is an already-reported issue or not...

Essentially, Factorio does not like NTFS junctions. At all. If your save folder is within a junction location and you attempt ...