Lost about 2 days of a save | Factorio | Page 1

native trench Mar 30, 2026, 5:50 PM

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Decided today to start fresh and realized that the autosave files were saving to non-permanent files. last time i manually saved was 2 days ago. Is there a way to fix this for the future?

rare oxide Mar 30, 2026, 5:52 PM

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just saving more often ?

native trench Mar 30, 2026, 5:52 PM

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rare oxide just saving more often ?

sure man, thats exactly what i came here to ask...

rare oxide Mar 30, 2026, 5:55 PM

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you can increase the amount of / time between autosaves, but that only prolongs your eventual loss

native trench Mar 30, 2026, 5:58 PM

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ok, yeah i see that setting. Was hoping for an option for to autosave and overwrite a permanent file.

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right now, it creates new save files, and deletes every 4th save

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would be nice to be able to never have to manually save is all im saying

rare oxide Mar 30, 2026, 6:00 PM

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save specific autosaves yea

native trench Mar 30, 2026, 6:01 PM

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right, that dont get deleted, just overwritten

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seems like a common thing i dont know why this is a confusing topic to discuss

rare oxide Mar 30, 2026, 6:02 PM

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mods would currently be the only way to do that
perhaps scripts

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