Autodrive saved courses disappears betweens game sessions

[Sockerbetan]

Hello fellow digital farmers. I have encountered this rather annoying problem where my saved Autodrive course disappears between sessions. I have to my eye no errors in the log but it probably is a modconflict. Has anyone had this problem and did have a fix for it?

Thank you and have a pleasant evening!

[BigAl Farming]

What map are you playing on? Is it no mans land per chance as I have the same problem on that map.

I think it could be a map conflict as tried starting a new game with only autodrive in mod folder (nothing else in folder at all) but still had the issue.

[Sockerbetan]

Yepp, its No Mans Land. And after abit testing that is also my conclusion.

[BigAl Farming]

I did some more investigating and managed to find the problem. It is a map conflict. Autodrive uses the map title for its file naming, but looks like it cant handle the apostrophe in the map tile.

Fortunately, found a very simple fix - deleting the apostrophe from the map title description line in the maps modDesc.xml file - and now map & autodrive work perfectly together, and with existing savegame - result!

(Do remember that modhub would now see this as a different map version though, so just need to ignore the in game modhub update as that'd regress the map back to its original version with the apostrophe & delete autodrive courses).

Hope this helps any others who have the issue.

[Sockerbetan]

Thank you, will try this fix cause its a wonderful map!

[Sockerbetan]

Yey, it worked, but to future people that needs to do this theres two entries of No Man´s Land in the modDesc.xml file that you need to change.

Thank you BigAl!!!

[Moosey]

Encountered the same problem ages ago in Mining & Construction economy map. Same soluton - remove "&" from map name.

[ccwoody]

I have this problem on the map God's Country. How do I edit out the apostrophe? thanks for any help.

[Farmerwill682]

I did some more investigating and managed to find the problem. It is a map conflict. Autodrive uses the map title for its file naming, but looks like it cant handle the apostrophe in the map tile.

Fortunately, found a very simple fix - deleting the apostrophe from the map title description line in the maps modDesc.xml file - and now map & autodrive work perfectly together, and with existing savegame - result!

(Do remember that modhub would now see this as a different map version though, so just need to ignore the in game modhub update as that'd regress the map back to its original version with the apostrophe & delete autodrive courses).

Hope this helps any others who have the issue.

Hi Big Al.
Can you offer me further help on this? I have tried removing the ' out of the modDesc.xml file but it appears to corrupt the file. When i open it after saving there is just 1ine of text at the top, all the rest has gone.....
The autodrive routes still dont save reload on next game session either so definitely something not right somewhere.
Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated as this is driving me mad now.
TIA

[Fedman]

Hello,
I have managed to solve this by inserting line 94 to AutoDrive.lua

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AutoDrive.loadedMap = string.gsub(AutoDrive.loadedMap, "'", "_")

I have already informed developers on their github page, hopefully they will add this to next release. For Mining & Construction just add another line and replace ' with &, like so

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AutoDrive.loadedMap = string.gsub(AutoDrive.loadedMap, "&", "_")

I have tested this, it is working on existing savegame.

[humbe]

A human readable text field can have lots of characters not wanted in file names. Sounds like they lack a conversion to convert a random string to an acceptable filename. Rather than fixing a single character, they should use a function that escapes or strips all unwanted characters..

[Iwan1803]

I have no idea what makes modder include such characters in their names, but this is just stupid.

The AD-Team integrated these changes for the map names with 1.1.0.5-RC4:
, will be replaced with _
: will be replaced with _
; will be replaced with _
' will be replaced with _
So there is no need to edit the map itself as this could cause other problems.

There are 2 things which must be changed for existing AD configs:
- rename the config file
- rename the map name inside this file (2 positions)
and that's all.

[Sane]

Can someone guide me through the process? because I tried to look for the ' but I didn't find it

[Jan Klaassen]

Can someone guide me through the process? because I tried to look for the ' but I didn't find it

At the moment you need to download the latest release candidate from the developer Github (https://github.com/Stephan-S/FS19_AutoDrive) and place it in your mods folder (leave a donation)

Next, close the game.
Go to your savegame folder and find the file 'AutoDrive_No_Man's_Land_config.xml'
Rename the file to 'AutoDrive_No_Man_s_Land_config.xml' (no quotes)
Open this file in a text editor.
Find the lines that say <No_Man's_Land> and </No_Man's_Land> and rename them to <No_Man_s_Land> and </No_Man_s_Land>
In essence replace the ' with _

(I'm not affiliated with this mod but did my own trial and error.)

[FarmAco]

<No_Man's_Land> and </No_Man's_Land>
does anyone know why I don't have that line in the file??