Losing saves entirely

[DBosley]

I'm playing CK3. I have a save with a start I want to work from and it's imported into pdx unlimiter. I've deleted the save from the game then exported it from unlimiter so I know it's the right one I'm working from. When I load the game, let the game go a day, then exit to menu, the game saves. I click import, and there's no new entry. When I go to continue the game, the save is somehow reverted back to the start date from the original save I imported into unlimiter.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I've already lost about 6 hours of progress because the game isn't able to save and reload. I've read your documentation fully, and cannot figure out the problem.

Other troubleshooting steps I've tried:
When I rename the campaign in unlimiter and re-export, the game is able to save again, but the new saves it creates when I exit to the main menu are cloud saves and the exported one is not.

I tried using all lowercase words in the campaign name as it looks like the game lowercases the save names.

[crschnick]

Okay that unfortunately sounds like a serious problem.

So I've tried to reproduce your issue but without success so far. I tried ironman, non ironman, cloud save, no cloud save, and everything worked as expected for me.
Ok so if I understand this correctly, the game is somehow not overwriting an existing save game for you. To find the root cause of this issue I would need some additional information:

• Does this happen always or just sometimes?
• If you look at your save games folder in the file explorer, are the changes actually written to the file and does the modified date change?
• Can you delete the save game file in question in the file explorer to ensure that no file lock is held by some program?
• What platform and OS are you playing on? I can only test it for steam on windows right now
• Does this also happen when the Pdx-Unlimiter isn't involved at all? Essentially, the Pdx-Unlimiter is just copying the file to your save games directory when clicking export, nothing more. So what happens if you do that task manually?

After writing this answer, I also found this: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/ck-iii-ironman-game-progress-not-saving.1416323/ . However I'm not sure how up to date that issue is.

[DBosley]

I worked with you on Discord to figure out the issue more precicely. It appears to be an issue with the paradox ck3 launcher (and potentially other launchers, but I didn't test this).

Steps I used to reproduce:

• Enable cloud saves in steam
• Export a campaign named "Anjou Stewardship - Ironman" (uppercase letters important)
• Open the game, let a day tick, exit to menu
• Observe different cased file names
• Close ck3
• Open ck3 launcher, click "resume" in launcher
• Original local save opens, not correct cloud save
• Exit to menu, cloud save is overwritten, losing 1 day's progress

unlimiter could potentially work around the issue by supporting exporting to the cloud-save folder, and using the same casing logic as the game (toLowerCase() ing the file names on export)