Surviving Mars - Save function not working - tells me "there is not enough storage space" [Win10]

[Night_Wielder]

Description
Save function not working - tells me "there is not enough storage space" [Win10]


Windows


Steam

What is your game version?
1001569

Do you have Space Race installed?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
When I go to save the game, or the autosave triggers, the game pops up with an error message that says "There is not enough storage space. To save your progress, delete old save data." I have had this problem several times in the past. There is plenty of space of my drive (over 300 GB), but to be safe I often delete my old saves once I start a new game. Removing all mods seems fix the problem this time, but sometimes in the past the problem has appeared fixed and then reasserted itself hours later. The issue also only ever starts after the first time I do a manual save, exit the game, and relaunch it.

Also, I wasn't sure what to attach, so I assed the debug file. I'm not sure if that's useful in any way.

Can you replicate the issue?
Each time I try and save, the save fails in the same way. I have not yet gone through and launched the mods one by one to isolate the mod most likely to be problematic, but will do so.

Attachments
File(s) attached

 

[AndrewT]

That's not the game's log file, it is here:
C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\Surviving Mars\logs\
To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.

This is the Steam edition, is that right? Not Epic?

What antivirus app do you use? Add MarsSteam.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.

 

[Night_Wielder]

That's not the game's log file, it is here:
C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\Surviving Mars\logs\
To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.

This is the Steam edition, is that right? Not Epic?

What antivirus app do you use? Add MarsSteam.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.

Thank you for your swift response. I attached the logs for all of my saves from today. Yes, this is the steam version. And I use Avast as my antivirus, and have added the .exe to my exceptions.
Also, I turned off all the mods, then turned all back on save for one, and that improved the situation. I had one save fail, but all my others worked. The mod was Automated Tourism by SkiRich, because I thought there might be some conflicts between that and the new tourism update.

 

[ChoGGi_2]

Your first log shows 10GB free, your last one shows 3.8 GB free, seems like something is using up your disk space.

 

[Night_Wielder]

Your first log shows 10GB free, your last one shows 3.8 GB free, seems like something is using up your disk space.

Thank you for pointing that out. It helped me find the problem. The game was saving to my C drive, which is almost full, but I thought it was saving to my D drive, which does have tons of free space.

 

[ChoGGi_2]

I kinda figured

You can use this to make a junction to a folder on your d drive for the game folder: https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html