My room deleted 8 hours of progress and went to an older save somehow

Bug Reports General Creation
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What device/platform are you having the problem on?

meta Quest 3

Were you alone or with other players?

Alone

How often does the issue occur?

It just happened for the first time and I’m not checking if it happens again

Room Name

Space-War-Studios

Subroom Name

Home

Description

I was doing work on a clubhouse for my friends room for 8 hours doing work then I got a bluescreen on my ocules

(Wasn’t actually a blue screen but this only happens when running RR basically i crashed so hard it reset my headset)

Now I wasn’t to distraught RR crashes frequently and I have auto saves on 5 minutes so being 5 minutes behind would’ve been better then 8 hours behind

(In witch I added ALOT in 8 hours)

Then I load into the room press the ok button on the recover last auto-save menu and I load into a save that’s older then the most recent save and it somehow deleted all of the newer saves i had for that 8 hours i was working on the room
Im going to take a break

I was a little heated when writing this so i fixed it a little

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you’re saying you didn’t save a single time in those 8 hours? just save every 10-15 minutes.

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I did save but it went to an older save and removed all of my progress

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i dont know if hre is a way to save your progress (trust me, ive done the same thing) BUT a way from preventing it from happening again is in settings, you can set how often you room automatically stores and auto save that you can recover (your user settings, not room settings). Also make sure that when a “recovered autosave stored at (time) is available. do you want to load the autosave?” button appears on your screen you press “no” and then go to the “this room” page and press the swirling arrow button next to the “save room” button. this should reload your latest saved autosave. I think this should fix it. if not then IDK

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The autosaves where on but when the reload last autosave menu poped up and i clicked ok it sent me back to an older save then i tried clicking the recover auto save button in the load menu and it was grayed out and didnt let me press it

I have autosaves set to 5 minutes

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yes, this has happened to me before and if that happens, I really dont know what to do. I guess just try to rebuild what you lost. Oh, and do NOT try to find another save of it that works. I tried that and it LITERALLY EXPLODED. Like, every shape flew in the air and was spinning but it was all physical it was crazy. I almost want it to happen again…

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OMG THAT HAPPENED TO ME TOO!!
It honistly made it a little better but i was still heated

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While it is smarter to save frequently, even a seasoned makerpen user like myself forget to save for long periods of times.

RecRoom really needs to find a better solution to auto-saves that is more concrete that doesn’t just get wiped after you save over-it or visit an older save.

The solution cannot be to just spam save the room because if you run into an issue, mistake or want to retrieve something from an older save, it’s made impossible because older saves get deleted when you save the room again.

I find auto-saves quite unreliable, so this post really resonates with me. (hundreds of hours of work lost) It’s incredibly discouraging when it happens, but at least I’m saving more often now.

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