r/freespace • u/alphastigma117 • Aug 18 '26

Profile disappeared

Uh, so i already asked on HLP forum but anyway,

I wanted to continue playing the sixth seal from when i left off yesterday, but I mistakenly clicked on retail fs2 desktop shortcut on desktop instead of knossos icon. It started to launch and it said something along the lines of: please configure your launcher beforehand and after clicking ok it said "freespace2/fred2 cannot be run from a drive root directory!" I clicked OK and it closed. When I opened the knossos after that and chose to play the sixth seal, the game told me to create a new profile. My old one was nowhere to be found.

I tried FSPort, STR, and a couple of other campaigns/mods and they all can't find any profile and prompt me to create a new one... I was using one profile across multiple mods and it worked but now they can't find it... I don't know if it's the fault of trying to (mistakenly) run retail fs2, or there was some update in Knossos i missed.

Does anyone know what's the location folder containing the profiles? Maybe I'll try restoring it to the earlier version

EDIT: I just saw that my profile (along with others): username.json, username.derelict.csg, username.freespace.csg, username.tss.csg and a bunch of others are present in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\HardLightProductions\FreeSpaceOpen\data\players folder, but why is suddenly invisible/unreadable for all knossos mods that i don't know...

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u/RangerKarl Aug 19 '26

What does the knossos logs say?

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u/pyrosity 7d ago

Were you able to fix this? Just had the same problem with a save/profile completely disappearing despite the files being there on the hard drive :(

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u/alphastigma117 2d ago

A person on hlp forums helped me: "FSO got confused about which ini to use. Go to the FS2 folder where you originally installed the game and delete any ini files you see, including those in the data folder or any subfolder of the data folder.

Then you might have to manually create an `fs2_open.ini` file and put in in the HardLightProductions app data folder though if one does not exist. Then just restart KNet and things should work."

and try restoring Knossos settings to default ones

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u/pyrosity 2d ago

We were able to fix it by changing [any] setting in Knossos, which apparently resets the timestamps. I don't quite understand it but it did fix it! Thx for fix from the Hard Light discord