Game freezes and then crashes on Save

[Wheerd]

I have the following problem with the steam version of the game, without any mods installed:

After I have loaded a game, if I try to save, the game freezes. After a while, I get an error message box with:

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Error
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boost::filesystem::read_symlink: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: "C:/users
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OK   
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Saving works fine, if I have started a new game, but if the current game was loaded, it crashes like this reproduceably.
It maybe the case because my actual Users folder is on a different partition (D:), and C:\Users is only a symlink (NTFS Junnction) pointing to that folder.
I don't know if that causes problems, as it should be completely transparent to any prgrams accessing the path.

I have attached the log.

[Koub]

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=20883&hilit=symlink
I think this will be useful for you.

[Wheerd]

Ah, thanks, using that I was able to fix it.

For anyone encountering the same problem:
I had to add the following as a lauch option in steam (Rickt click on Factorio -> Properties -> Set Launch Options):

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 --config "D:\users\wheerd\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\config\config.ini"

You will have to adapt the path to your absoulte User folder location.

[Koub]

Confirmed duplicate of 20883
[Koub] : moved topic to Duplicates.