Lost and Found

Oopsie Daisy · Jun 3, 2015

So there I am in my little Hauler, 1300 ly from home, high above our galactic arm, where the stars are rarefied, lost. I don't know how to get back home and I am actually a bit worried. But while scouting around I find my first earth-like, unclaimed by anyone else. I give you Planet Hairball (the first):

Unfortunately, in all the excitement, I forgot to write down the system name and location. Hopefully I can recover that info when (if) I turn in my data.

Alex Brentnall · Jun 3, 2015

HairballHacker said:
So there I am in my little Hauler, 1300 ly from home, high above our galactic arm, where the stars are rarefied, lost. I don't know how to get back home and I am actually a bit worried. But while scouting around I find my first earth-like, unclaimed by anyone else. I give you Planet Hairball (the first):

Unfortunately, in all the excitement, I forgot to write down the system name and location. Hopefully I can recover that info when (if) I turn in my data.

Nice find, to set your mind at ease it will pop up in the first discovered, you'll probably want to keep an eye out for high paying systems though since it doesn't tell you if its an ELW or what that you've put your tags on.

Gimi · Jun 3, 2015

If you have full logging enabled, you can run EDDiscovery 2 on your log files and it will list all systems you visited and when. Compare that list with the time stamp of your screen shot and you should be able to match it up.
If you don't have full logging enabled, I would advice you to do so from now on. Makes your data infinitely easier to work with.

Whiterose · Jun 3, 2015

If you got there you should be able to get back. Nice find.

Gramps · Jun 3, 2015

+1 For EdDiscovery

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=138155

It's a near essential tool for any Explorer. You will be able to see every system you passed through to your current location so you could use it to backtrack your own trail. No need to be worried about finding your way back to a more populated star cluster, also you can add comments against a system, maybe to say what you found there which was of interest.

Oopsie Daisy · Jun 3, 2015

Gimi said:
If you have full logging enabled, you can run EDDiscovery 2 on your log files and it will list all systems you visited and when. Compare that list with the time stamp of your screen shot and you should be able to match it up.
If you don't have full logging enabled, I would advice you to do so from now on. Makes your data infinitely easier to work with.

How do I enable full logging? I don't see it in either the launcher or client options. Thanks.

dannywhac · Jun 3, 2015

It's in the link above, but:

Since Gamma 2 no system information are stored in netlog by default. But if you change Elite to verbose logging it will work again!
If you add a line to the network section in AppConfig.xml then Elite will add system positions to netlog again.
AppConfig.xml is in the same directory as the EliteDangerous32.exe file.

For me its in C:\Users\robert.wahlstrom\AppData\Local\Frontier_Developments\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1001
Search for AppConfig.xml or EliteDangerous32.exe to find the config file.
Remember to Add verbose logging after every Elite patch.

To activate system logging add VerboseLogging="1" in the network section in AppConfig.xml

Just alter the AppConfig.xml (open it in Notepad or Wordpad) and change
VerboseLogging="0"

to

VerboseLogging="1"

If Verbose Logging isn't there, add it in the correct place so the end of the open file looks like this:

<Network
Port="0"
upnpenabled="1"
LogFile="netLog"
DatestampLog="1"
VerboseLogging="1"
>

You'll have to re-do it though after every ED update.

Ripster · Jun 3, 2015

Nice find

here is to many more!!

Oopsie Daisy · Jun 3, 2015

dannywhac said:
It's in the link above, but:

Since Gamma 2 no system information are stored in netlog by default. But if you change Elite to verbose logging it will work again!
If you add a line to the network section in AppConfig.xml then Elite will add system positions to netlog again.
AppConfig.xml is in the same directory as the EliteDangerous32.exe file.

For me its in C:\Users\robert.wahlstrom\AppData\Local\Frontier_Developments\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1001
Search for AppConfig.xml or EliteDangerous32.exe to find the config file.
Remember to Add verbose logging after every Elite patch.

To activate system logging add VerboseLogging="1" in the network section in AppConfig.xml

Just alter the AppConfig.xml (open it in Notepad or Wordpad) and change
VerboseLogging="0"

to

VerboseLogging="1"

If Verbose Logging isn't there, add it in the correct place so the end of the open file looks like this:

<Network
Port="0"
upnpenabled="1"
LogFile="netLog"
DatestampLog="1"
VerboseLogging="1"
>

You'll have to re-do it though after every ED update.

Ok, thanks. FYI, for a Steam install the Windows path is:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Elite Dangerous\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1010\AppConfig.xml"