Discussion Read JSON files during play

Archduke

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On Windows

There are a number of logged data held in various files within:
%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\

Are there any risks with runnning external processes that might be opening these files for reading during ED play? Are these files locked or would the game suspect foulplay if the files are being used by another process?

The intention is not to require any online data, but only relate current player status/actions to a predetermined output...
 

forbiddenlake

forbiddenlake
these files are what all the existing third-party tools use. there's no game risk (edit: typo fix) in using them.

you should probably open them read-only and not try to take an exclusive lock, so that the game can continue writing them, but you should feel free to use them.
 
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Clicker

Clicker
I have noticed that on very rare occasions, I get a file error when reading status.json.
I suspect this happens when I open the file to read and the game has, at that exact instant, overwritten status.json with a new one.

This is easily handled via coding in read retries.

Clicker
 

Lhorndra

Lhorndra
Here is a documentation of the journal files:

Introduction | Elite Dangerous Journal

Elite Dangerous Player Journal reference
elite-journal.readthedocs.io

As has been mentioned, all the local third party tools (EDMC, EDD, EDDI etc) read those files, so no, there is no risk in reading them while playing. All that data is collected via the Elite Dangerous Data Network (EDDN). Here's its real-time status:
 
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