[0.15.9] unable to start a game

[bobingabout]

As the screenshot says.
Also happens when trying to load a game.

it seemed to work fine in 0.15.6, I've not really tried loading games since then, due to heavy modding.
note: it's not mods, I turned them all off to test this error.

This is the only line it gives in the log file related to the error.

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  39.248 Error AppManagerStates.cpp:1111: create_directories(p): invalid argument: operation not permitted

[Loewchen]

Post the complete log.

[bobingabout]

Post the complete log.

fine

I'm not a newbie at this you know, I've used logs to debug errors myself, I know what is needed and what isn't.

unfortunately, I can't... it's mysteriously started working again now.

But what I Can tell you is that every line of the log for initialising the game looked normal to me.

That came up when, and only when I tried to create a new game, or load a save game.

and then everything after that point when I pressed to exit the game looked normal to me.

[Loewchen]

Post the complete log.

fine

I'm not a newbie at this you know, I've used logs to debug errors myself, I know what is needed and what isn't.
unfortunately, I can't... it's mysteriously started working again now.
But what I Can tell you is that every line of the log for initialising the game looked normal to me.
That came up when, and only when I tried to create a new game, or load a save game.
and then everything after that point when I pressed to exit the game looked normal to me.

We need the log not for the error itself but to see what all the reports of that particular error have in common and what not. Without it, we just know it now happened at least once more since the last report

[bobingabout]

If I still had a log, I'd share it. Sorry.
fortunately for me it fixed itself. I couldn't put off modding that long so downloaded version 0.15.6 and continued. I only tried again when you asked for a full log, and it worked.

What I can say though is at the time, acronis was running a system backup
It is possible that it locked the directory for some reason and unlocked it when it a as done, but I've hadthe computer do this every week for nearly 2 years now, and never had any issues with it before.

[posila]

Thanks for the report.
I believe it was trying to create currently-playing folder in temp, and it was unable to clear it previously. There was a problem with deleting read-only files on Windows, which is fixed in 0.15.12.
For 0.15.13 I added path of folder it was trying to create to this error message, so if it happens again, we will at least will know what causes the problem.