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Julien Perlmutter
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Posted - 2010.01.24 11:03:00 -
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 Originally by: Catari Taga
Edited by: Catari Taga on 21/01/2010 20:28:47
Originally by: Tippia
Originally by: Catari Taga
Originally by: CCP Chronotis
Thanks for reporting this, are the files still present in your eve directory (personal fittings are saved locally)? (c:\<user>\Documents\EVE\fittings folder)?
That's incorrect, the fittings folder takes the exported XML files. The ingame storage is in %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\e_eve_tranquility\settings (I'll assume that's not your area of responsibility  ).
While I have the old filed backed up since you guys tend to break settings each patch you cannot use the backup since the client will break it again when you log back in. Newly stored fittings do however save correctly so you must have changed the format you stored them in
Do you know if it's any particular file the fittings are stored in?
The core_char_{characterID}.dat files.
Originally by: CCP Chronotis
Indeed you are right! I just got corrected by CCP Habakuk next to me 
We are looking into it.
Thanks.
Is there a solution or at least any news on this?
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Julien Perlmutter
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Posted - 2010.01.24 23:52:00 -
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Originally by: Kerfira
Originally by: Julien Perlmutter
Originally by: Catari Taga
Missing fittings post..
Is there a solution or at least any news on this?
My guess is they'll not be able to recover peoples fittings... These are stored in the settings files, which seems to be rewritten every time the game is started. Thus the old fittings probably got lost forever when the game was started after the patch.
If this is the case, then they can only save fittings for the (increasingly small) number of people who haven't yet applied the patch, or who saved their settings file. My guess is they'll decide this is not a good use of their time (which is probably correct).
all vista and windows 7 users should be able to recover the old settings files using the builtin-and-enabled-by-default-VSS-feature. Since all Linux-users are uber-h4xx0rz they should have regular backups ;-). So what we need is "just" a little tool, which extracts the old fittings from the settings file and converts them to a re-importable xml. I have no real clue, how much work this would be, but might be even less than proper testing and pre-release fixing would have taken... .
Originally by: Kerfira
The problem highlighted is that they don't seem to have any module testing of their internal settings save format at all (or didn't update them).... If they did, then a change in the file format causing it to not read the full content under the new format would have been caught....
exactly...
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Julien Perlmutter
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Posted - 2010.01.28 07:52:00 -
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Originally by: Space Scooterman
So if I didn't magically back up some random ****ing files pre-patch, all fittings are gone?
**** you, CCP.
Originally by: Julien Permutter
all vista and windows 7 users should be able to recover the old settings files using the builtin-and-enabled-by-default-VSS-feature. Since all Linux-users are uber-h4xx0rz they should have regular backups ;-).
now I know what that means:
Originally by: Kerfira
Real men don't take backups!!!!
...they just cry a lot afterwards 
@CCP - thanks for taking care of that, really looking forward to see my fittings again.
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Julien Perlmutter
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Posted - 2010.01.28 13:54:00 -
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Edited by: Julien Perlmutter on 28/01/2010 13:55:50
Originally by: Knalldari Testpilot
Saved user fittings:
- are still gone (since patch 1.1)
After applying the patch I was able to get my fittings back by restoring the "core_char_<userid>.dat" file in the settings folder. No, I didn't magically backup random files, I just used the already mentioned VSS-feature of windows vista to restore the file from a date before dominion 1.1. So I'm happy with that now.
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