Error "Broken Assets" when launching a savegame or creating an assets

[MilesTEG1]

Hello,
I've played severals hours on this wonderful game, and I love it !

But since yesterday, I've got this error when I launch my savegame. I'm sure it's related to an asset I've downloaded from the workshop, but I can't know which one in order to delete it. (I've done it on two assets that caused my some errors too, and now no more errors from the 2 I've deleted). But this error show up every time I launch a save (on windows or mac)

Broken assets:

Custom Assets: New Asset_Data: Duplicate prefab name [BrokenAssetException]

Details:
No details
BrokenAssetException: Broken assets:

Custom Assets: New Asset_Data: Duplicate prefab name

Can someone help me find out what cause this error ?
Thanks you
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Miles

 

[magitsu]

Well, your cached Workshop content should be at SteamLibrary\SteamApps\workshop\content\255710 so if you move them temporarily somewhere else you should be able to find out keeping them is a problem currently.

 

[MilesTEG1]

Ok, I renamed the workshop folder, and no more errors when I launch my save or create a new game.

I'll have to re-download all the assets I had...
Hoping there is no more errors...


But I would like to have a file where are stored all messages from the game, to find out what causing errors.

 

[MilesTEG1]

After re-downloading all Assets from workshop, I still have this annoying error...
I tried to delete the userGameState.cgs file in which I have the Asset_Data chain of string... But still got the error.

Where can I find an error.log from the game ? Or a debug.log ?

 

[magitsu]

It should be output_log.txt in SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Cities_Skylines\Cities_Data

 

[MilesTEG1]

It should be output_log.txt in SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Cities_Skylines\Cities_Data

Hello,
I dont find the Cities_Data folder :


I also check in the Cities Skyline.app but the file is not here too.

 

[magitsu]

Ok. Better wait for someone from CO/Paradox to look at this since you have OSX.
The folder structure isn't similar. Mine is in folder \SteamApps\common\Cities_Skylines\Cities_Data in Win 8.1.

 

[MilesTEG1]

I've got the exact same error in windows
I'll check the windows folders

OK : in the windows version folder I found the output_log.txt
But here is a lot of text in it

 

[MilesTEG1]

Hello, I may have found what was wrong.

I've downloaded some mods and assets from the WorkShop, and some of them were deleted by their creators...
But they're not being deleted from my download list.

Here have a look on the appworkshop_255710.acf file i've got after unsubscribing to all mod & assets I've downloaded (more the 250 !!)

"AppWorkshop"
{
	"appID"		"255710"
	"SizeOnDisk"		"10678993"
	"NeedsUpdate"		"0"
	"NeedsDownload"		"0"
	"TimeLastUpdated"		"1426510638"
	"TimeLastAppRan"		"1426511609"
	"WorkshopItemsInstalled"
	{
		"407696362"
		{
			"manifest"		"2522632427465938672"
			"size"		"3118489"
			"timeupdated"		"1426346490"
		}
		"407734919"
		{
			"manifest"		"7241999981919650935"
			"size"		"2868115"
			"timeupdated"		"1426350386"
		}
		"408213309"
		{
			"manifest"		"6475797688787963274"
			"size"		"4692389"
			"timeupdated"		"1426407238"
		}
	}
	"WorkshopItemDetails"
	{
		"407696362"
		{
			"manifest"		"2522632427465938672"
			"timeupdated"		"1426346490"
			"timetouched"		"1426511530"
			"BytesDownloaded"		"988640"
			"BytesToDownload"		"988640"
			"issubscribed"		"1"
		}
		"407734919"
		{
			"manifest"		"7241999981919650935"
			"timeupdated"		"1426350386"
			"timetouched"		"1426511530"
			"BytesDownloaded"		"1012160"
			"BytesToDownload"		"1012160"
			"issubscribed"		"1"
		}
		"408213309"
		{
			"manifest"		"6475797688787963274"
			"timeupdated"		"1426407238"
			"timetouched"		"1426511530"
			"BytesDownloaded"		"467568"
			"BytesToDownload"		"467568"
			"issubscribed"		"1"
		}
	}
}

You see ? There are 3 assets whitch won't be gone in the list.
I tried to remove the workshop directory from my computer, and check the entire game files to download what was missing, and tadaaaa these 3 files were still there.
And I think those were what messed up and getting me this error.

I wanted to find out why these 3 assets still be in my list... With no assets/mods installed I can see in the game list of assets 3 with no preview image, and then I removed them.
Now I've got this appworkshop_255710.acf file :

"AppWorkshop"
{
	"appID"		"255710"
	"SizeOnDisk"		"0"
	"NeedsUpdate"		"0"
	"NeedsDownload"		"0"
	"TimeLastUpdated"		"1426540746"
	"TimeLastAppRan"		"1426541473"
	"WorkshopItemsInstalled"
	{
	}
	"WorkshopItemDetails"
	{
	}
}

I removed all empty folder still present in the content/255710/ folder of the workshop directory.

Now I'll try to add some assets I care about. But now, I will limitate to only the best rated

I came back here to tell if the error is definitively gone or not

By

(PS : sorry for my bad english, I hope I managed to make myself understood )
Bye
Miles

 

[MilesTEG1]

Hi,
I come back to tell that what I did was successful !
No more error !

But it was a pain in the ass to find out ^^



I think the Assest/Mods system needs to have some filters, some standards in order to prevent some mess like I had.
In the game, I would like to have a filter to sort the differents assets, and a button to show what assets/mods had been deleted from the workshop by their creator, in order to delete them from my computer.

It would be great if there was a system that allow a report bug feature within the game, for the game itself and for the mods/assets directly to the creator.


Thanks for your help by the way

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Miles