Well I left the boat

[RoadRageDude]

yea but what is the save file called though?

[Nico]

It's a folder which contains several number and letters. Mine is called: 444C435F70726F66

Located in: C:\Users\Nico\Documents\Euro Truck Simulator 2\profiles

Just go to the recycle bin and look up the date when you deleted it.

Oh and the save files are in that folder in a folder named: save

[RoadRageDude]

yea but i un-installed the game so yea.

[ThatYorkshireman]

uhhhhhh, re-install it? yea

[RoadRageDude]

i did but it started me out at level 0

[Timopm]

Sigh... No file is ever "deleted" unless you manually "Empty the Recycle Bin." Period.

Any file "deleted" is simply moved to the Recycle Bin.

This is nonsense in both the user's view and application's view.

User:
- Press shift+delete to remove a file without moving it to the recycle bin
- Change your OS settings to automatically bypass the recycle bin

Application:
- In general, deleting a file by code, will not involve the recycle bin. So if there's a bug that accidentally deletes the save games, it's very unlikely you can find them there again.

However, a file is never deleted from your hard drive unless it's overwritten again. This has nothing to do with your recycle bin or stuff like that. The space is made available again, but is still on your disk untill your OS writes some other data over it. With some luck, you can even retrieve stuff from many years ago.

[ThatYorkshireman]

Then use cheat engine to get back to where you were before.

[RoadRageDude]

well money and XP: yes with cheat engine but what about trucks, drivers, road explored, etc?

[ThatYorkshireman]

Buy/Hire them all back! as for road explored, I'm not really fussed about that, It is just a number after all.

[n4gix.bill.leaming]

This is nonsense in both the user's view and application's view.

To use the term "nonsense" is both rude and condescending. It would have been both more polite and technically accurate to simply say that it is "incomplete" or "not entirely correct."

The simple fact is that in ~99% of the cases, a typical User would not have used Shift-Delete to remove a file and/or folder, in which case the situation for recovery remains valid and licit.

Likewise it is rare that any typical User would have reconfigured their system to avoid the Recycle Bin...

Finally yes, there are some truly powerful tools available that would allow a 'power user' to recover files that for whatever reason have become disconnected with the address table, but that too is well beyond the pale of the typical user.

Despite over fifty years of involvement with computers both at the hardware and programming level, I am still learning new things everyday.