Save borked

[latent gate]

My server save got corrupted. When I download it, the game won’t even start it gets stuck on loading. Is there any way to fix or restore it?

[viral pagoda]

Hello!
https://playwindrose.com/faq/#faq-saves

If you played After April 19th, you shoudl have a save backup on your server (some progress might still get lost, as the backup creates on server launch)

If you are using Filezill to download your saves - try a different FTP client, Filezilla corrupts saves during downloading. Try Cyberduck (froo on WIndows store), alot of people reported it to work fine.

[latent gate]

I don’t think it will change anything, since the server logs show errors and it keeps looping during world generation. But will try anyway.

[viral pagoda]

if you are renting a server and using FTP client to transfer saves. DO NOT USE Filezilla, it corrupts save alst in 100% of cases, use a differnt FTP client (other folks recommended Cyberduck (free on Msicrosoft Store)

[latent gate]

This is a part of the logs is it a server-side issue or a save file issue? Because at this point, I honestly don’t know anymore and I’m not using FileZilla, I’m using WinSCP.

||[2026.04.22-15.24.53:924][614]LogNetPlayerMovement: Warning: ServerMove: TimeStamp expired: 164.077103, CurrentTimeStamp: 165.094879, Character: BP_R5Character_C_2147236568
[2026.04.22-15.24.53:925][614]LogNetPlayerMovement: Warning: ServerMove: TimeStamp expired: 232.062698, CurrentTimeStamp: 233.269165, Character: BP_R5Character_C_2147306385
[2026.04.22-15.24.53:925][614]R5LogBLDalAQ: Warning: [448556] R5BLDalAsyncQueue::DetectProblems [s:2656: 9222: multUpD] Slow task. Task was finished in 708 ms. DebugInfo
[D:\Source\Build\work\gameRepoCheckoutDir\Plugins\R5BusinessLogicCore\Source\R5BLCommon\Cpp\R5DataAbstractionLayer\R5BLDalAsyncQueue.cpp:1210]
[2026.04.22-15.24.53:926][614]R5LogBLDalAQ: Warning: [448561] R5BLDalAsyncQueue::DetectProblems [s:2657: 9226: commitT] Slow task. Task was finished in 1898 ms. DebugInfo
Commit transaction [D:\Source\Build\work\gameRepoCheckoutDir\Plugins\R5BusinessLogicCore\Source\R5BLCommon\Cpp\R5DataAbstractionLayer\R5BLDalAsyncQueue.cpp:1210]
[2026.04.22-15.24.53:927][614]R5LogNetBL: [448563] R5NetBlServerReactorV2::RuleRequestServer [Gc-01BE5EF8AEA643BA21AF9E02ED9815EE] Server mode. RuleRequest. RuleName 'R5BLInventory_ActionMoveItemsRule' [D:\Source\Build\work\gameRepoCheckoutDir\Plugins\R5BusinessLogicCore\Source\R5Net\Cpp\BL\R5NetBlServerReactorV2.cpp:769]
[2026.04.22-15.24.53:988][614]R5LogBLDalAQ: Warning: [448563] R5BLDalAsyncQueue::DetectProblems [s:2658: 9228: multUpD] Slow task. Task was finished in 889 ms. DebugInfo
[D:\Source\Build\work\gameRepoCheckoutDir\Plugins\R5BusinessLogicCore\Source\R5BLCommon\Cpp\R5DataAbstractionLayer\R5BLDalAsyncQueue.cpp:1210]||

[viral pagoda]

Hello!
https://playwindrose.com/faq/#faq-saves

Can you try using any of the backups and see if they work for you?

[viral pagoda]

hello there, though I drop you a line. just had a convesation with another person who had a similar issue, so WINSCP also corrupts files on transfer.