Can you save your Hotbar??

[Benny]

It takes some effort to populate your hotbar...and recently I've gotten the hang of using FG to the point where I've loaded up multiple hotbars worth of links only to have them disappear on closing the program. I've tried to look for solutions to this or see if anyone else is having this error but not finding anything.

Is this a unique error I'm having? And if it's not, is there a way to save your hotbar links so they'll repopulate when you open a campaign?

Thanks in advance!

[Andraax]

They should be saved. If they're not, check the permissions on your Fantasy Grounds folders.

[LordEntrails]

Hot bars are unique to the active character and the campaign. If you are switching campaigns or active character you will have to redo the hotbars.

If you are not, and your hotbar is not saving between sessions, then as Andraax says, you have a permissions issue on your data folders.

[gtw2017]

They should be saved. If they're not, check the permissions on your Fantasy Grounds folders.

Mine always save. Do you type /save before closing your campaign? @OP

[LordEntrails]

You shouldn't have to type /save. FG saves every 5 minutes and when you exit the program (unless you are using Wine and kill the application window with the x, or otherwise just kill the process rather than use exit)

[damned]

type /console in chat and move that window aside - dont close it.
see if you get warnings about files not being able to be saved.

[Benny]

Alright! Got it sorted out after reviewing everyone's answers..thanks everyone for the input!

What I didn't include in my initial post is that I'm running on a Mac and was also receiving an error each time I opened the campaign stating something along the lines of a loading error and need to restore from a previous file save...to further clarify I am also hosting a campaign and only trying to open it, not switching to other games.

I reviewed permissions and that wasn't it - I'm on an admin account. I typed in /console and it brought up what looked like a windows window that I couldn't interact with...didn't allow me to move it and was otherwise blank. I could only close it.

I occupied my hotbar, typed /save, and finally figured it must be that I'm exiting the game incorrectly. I realized I could right click on the background/tabletop (whatever it's called) and get an option to exit the game. That worked! No error message when re-opening and hotbar saved. I say all this to point out I was exiting the game other ways previously and this is the only way that seems to work 100%...If there are other correct ways to exit that I don't know I'm all ears.

[Trenloe]

That’s the correct way to exit on a Mac (via the right-click menu on the desktop). Simply closing the window immediately ends the app and so FG doesn’t do a final save and hence when it loads up again it thinks it crashed (which it kind-of did) and reverts to the last auto save - which is carried out every 5 minutes.