But that might be true, but when a fresh install of 17.11 server was installed, although I don't have the exact logs (I'll find them), It was attempting to do the same when trying to load the save. When my friend changed the name of migrations in the server, it properly loaded the save. He and I ...

This does sound like similar issues I've seen posted previously, where the problem was indeed stales files after an upgrade. I


I know there can't be stale files in his server, as this was his first time downloading and running a factorio server for his new machine (he had one previously on a ...

It was a fresh install for 0.17.11 for today.

Since my friend was running a headless server (which works normally without issues on 0.17.11), but he wanted me to generate a world for him and send it over since he couldn't figure out how to manage settings of world gen on the headless.

- So I generate it in 0.17.11, save it on the same version ...