My main save, alongside all three autosaves just got corrupted.

[jemhop]

I was playing Factorio when suddenly my Firefox hanged badly - with the right click menu stuck over every window. I sent it some exit signals (on Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.1) eventually resorting to SIG9, but had no luck. I saved my Factorio game, waited a couple seconds, and then restarted my computer. When I returned to Factorio, my main save file was corrupted. I checked all three autosaves, but all three of those were corrupted as well. According to my file explorer, my main save and all three autosave zips are about 0 bytes, and opening them with a hex editor I can see they all contain an identical set of bytes.

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00000000
00000010
00000020
00000030
00000040
00000050
00000060
00000070
00000080
00000090
000000A0
000000B0
000000C0
000000D0
000000E0
000000F0
00000100
00000110
00000120
00000130
00000140
00000150
00000160

This set of bytes is the exact same across all saves, and seems to be counting up in 16s from 0 to 352.


Attached is the log file for the previous launch, when the saves were presumably corrupted.

Thankfully I do have one save, but its about 15-20 hours old and since that save I've moved my entire furnace setup to module 3 beacons. I doubt anything can be done, I'm just hoping that reporting the issue here will help somebody further down the line.