WTF? all careers erased.

[Igo kyu]

When I started my computer today, there was something odd going on, some sort of scan or something, before windows got started, I didn't know what it was but thought it could have been an update of something.

Tonight, I put the 1946 disk in, go to play and all of my pilot careers are erased.

What's that about?

If my game was a pirate copy, which it is not, they'd be within their rights to delete the entire thing, but I don't see the point of deleting my games in progress and leaving the game installed.

I have anti-virus, and Windows Defender runs nightly as it likes. Is this a known infestation, or is it Ubisoft playing silly billies?

[romet]

Scanning before the start of windows sounds like checkdisk.
Maybe your harddrive had an error. In your Il2 folder you should find the folder -users- in which you should find a folder with your pilots name. In this folder you should find the file campaigns.ini which as far as I know holds the informations of all the campaigns you have started. If you have started many campaigns this file should be larger than 10kb. You could try to open the file with editor to see if it can be accessed, but you won't be able to rapair it, as it is not written in plain language.
Hope that helps a bit.

[vpmedia]

usually it happens when you delete a campaign folder in use inside c:\Program Files\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\Missions\Campaign\...

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by romet

Scanning before the start of windows sounds like checkdisk.

I dunno, now that I know what it did I think maybe it was Securom, but then again I certainly don't know that. Does checkdisk run at random on system startup? I don't think I've had that screen before, but I usually start the machine before I'm ready to use it, so it's ready to go when I am, so I don't know I never have.

Maybe your harddrive had an error.

It's a newish SSD, so I hope not. I suspect if it is Securom it's not expecting SSDs, and the fact that the DVD wasn't in the drive for the first time in a long while alarmed it.

In your Il2 folder you should find the folder -users- in which you should find a folder with your pilots name. In this folder you should find the file campaigns.ini which as far as I know holds the informations of all the campaigns you have started. If you have started many campaigns this file should be larger than 10kb. You could try to open the file with editor to see if it can be accessed, but you won't be able to rapair it, as it is not written in plain language.
Hope that helps a bit.

If I can't edit it, that's no use to me, but thanks for the information.

When I go to recreate a career, it says it already exists, but it doesn't show up on the selection screen, so the file still exists but it's been messed with somehow.

System:
Win 7 home prem 64 bit,
64GB SSD,
Core 2 quad 9550 at stock speed,
6GB DDR3.