Title says it all. I have several years of save data within dolphin that I've never had any issue with until last week when I haphazardly enabled onedrive on my documents folder and had them sync inbetween machines. After using dolphin on another machine, I was horrified to see that my save data has completely vanished on both computers. All saves, Mii's anything other than controllers layouts just vanished. I've been scouring threads for hours to no avail because it seems nobody else has encountered this so please if anyone can help me restore my data or at least give me closure and tell me its been permanently lost id be greatly appreciative. This is very disappointing for me.
Lost ALL save data after syncing onedrive folder
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09-15-2024, 01:23 AM
Just to double-check, if you set up a Windows machine without OneDrive enabled, it'll put the Documents folder at C:\users\username\Documents, and if you have OneDrive enabled from the start, it goes at C:\users\username\OneDrive\Documents instead. In both cases, a registry entry is set so when you type Documents in the address bar, it'll take you to the right place and applications can ask where to put documents and be given the right folder. I don't know if you enable OneDrive and tell it to sync the Documents folder whether it'll then move it and change the registry entry. It could be that it's done that and Dolphin's not noticed, or that it's changed the registry entry and Dolphin's noticed, but it hasn't actually moved the files. OneDrive used to be pretty flaky for the first year or so after it was enabled by default when Windows 10 launched, so 2015-2016, but after that, it's generally been pretty reliable, and things that break are either because it's not properly explained what it's doing to users, or because applications were doing something that was already dodgy even when OneDrive wasn't used, but it was previously asymptomatic.
OS: Windows 10 64 bit Professional
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X RAM: 48GB GPU: Radeon 7800 XT 09-15-2024, 04:37 AM
(09-15-2024, 01:23 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: Just to double-check, if you set up a Windows machine without OneDrive enabled, it'll put the Documents folder at C:\users\username\Documents, and if you have OneDrive enabled from the start, it goes at C:\users\username\OneDrive\Documents instead. In both cases, a registry entry is set so when you type Documents in the address bar, it'll take you to the right place and applications can ask where to put documents and be given the right folder. I don't know if you enable OneDrive and tell it to sync the Documents folder whether it'll then move it and change the registry entry. It could be that it's done that and Dolphin's not noticed, or that it's changed the registry entry and Dolphin's noticed, but it hasn't actually moved the files. OneDrive used to be pretty flaky for the first year or so after it was enabled by default when Windows 10 launched, so 2015-2016, but after that, it's generally been pretty reliable, and things that break are either because it's not properly explained what it's doing to users, or because applications were doing something that was already dodgy even when OneDrive wasn't used, but it was previously asymptomatic. Hi thanks for the response. The OneDrive sync was enabled far after dolphin had been set up and despite the fact that all the paths seem to point to the correct directories within dolphin it's not reading any data. I've attached a photo of my path's directory in case you see something that may be misplaced or is it possible that I'm missing something else? everything was playing fine just a few days ago I'm not all sure what could have happened here because it's hard for me to believe that it truly just wiped my save data slate clean if the dolphin documents folder seems to still be fully intact. Really appreciate your response 09-15-2024, 07:12 AM
If you open Dolphin and press File > Open User Folder, which folder are you taken to?
Are you having trouble with saves both for GameCube and Wii games? 09-15-2024, 08:31 AM
(09-15-2024, 07:12 AM)JosJuice Wrote: If you open Dolphin and press File > Open User Folder, which folder are you taken to?Hi, open user folder brings me to the main dolphin directory located within my OneDrive documents although I discovered there is in fact another dolphin directory of roughly the same size located within AppData. And sorry for not clarifying this issue is ONLY related to the Wii and GameCube saves are moving between computers just fine and are still intact. If it's of any help I did download and install a copy of my Wii memory to dolphin a few years back which had a bunch of Mii's and Wii save data on it, I don't remember what it was called exactly I think NAND or something along with whatever other necessary files there were. That base Wii save data along with the Mii's are now missing. Is it possible I've interrupted the path to the downloaded Wii memory that it might have been riding off of? Thanks 09-15-2024, 11:43 AM
There are three places your Dolphin data could potentially have been:
We've established that Dolphin's looking in the second folder and that the data doesn't seem to be there, but we've not established that it's not in either of the other locations.
OS: Windows 10 64 bit Professional
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X RAM: 48GB GPU: Radeon 7800 XT 09-15-2024, 03:21 PM
(09-15-2024, 11:43 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: There are three places your Dolphin data could potentially have been: Hi, my documents folder under my user seems to only have a few unrelated files in it so whatever was in my documents previously is likely all now in my one drive. I believe it could possibly be the app data but what I really need help with is understanding what each path in the config menu does and mainly how I can tell dolphin which folder to look in because I am not quite sure that I'm doing this correctly. Since my GameCube data is being successfully read from wherever dolphin is currently looking, I'd need something specifically tailored to where Wii data is being stored since ALL of the Wii data (Mii's included) have gone missing, but all of the GC data is intact. Thanks 09-15-2024, 05:07 PM
(09-15-2024, 08:31 AM)McLovinsTheThird Wrote: And sorry for not clarifying this issue is ONLY related to the Wii and GameCube saves are moving between computers just fine and are still intact. If it's of any help I did download and install a copy of my Wii memory to dolphin a few years back which had a bunch of Mii's and Wii save data on it, I don't remember what it was called exactly I think NAND or something along with whatever other necessary files there were. That base Wii save data along with the Mii's are now missing. Is it possible I've interrupted the path to the downloaded Wii memory that it might have been riding off of? Thanks I noticed in your earlier screenshot of the Paths tab that the Wii NAND Root was set to a different folder than normal. I'm guessing you did something to that folder. 09-16-2024, 10:05 AM
Hi, I've finally figured it out after looking around my NAND file is missing from its folder. I replaced it with the initial copy from 2020 and it booted the old data fine so something misplaced or deleted the nand file somehow. Im currently trying to find it on my computer but i cant seem to find it which is a bummer. Currently using disk drill to see if i can recover it but thank you for your help nontheless
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