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It's probably something I'm doing wrong, but I'll get this message after I stop playing for a while and close out the game before I come back to it.

So, the error occurs when you stop playing the game, but leave it open? And it occurs when you come back to it? Or is the error occurring when you load the game afterwards? I'm not following your message 100% here.

If the error is after leaving it open for a while and coming back to it, it could be a memory leak in a plugin, so I can check for that. Also is this the windows version of the game? Thanks.

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After I've played for some time, closed the game out, shut down the computer, and come back later to load a save file, my character has changed physically to outfits and hair I didn't currently have equipped. I go to the menu, key items, check appearance and the error shows up. And yes it's the Windows version, sorry for any confusion from my previous post.

Hm, that's a very odd bug, especially your outfit and hair changing. And this only happens when you use check appearance? Was your save from an older version of the game? I'm not really sure what could be causing this. Would you be able to upload your save file and the "global.rpgsave" file from your save folder and send it to me so I can fiddle around with it? You could also just send the whole folder.

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No, I just discovered/downloaded the most recent version of the game a few days ago. I've tried a couple of other key items when in the menu and the error pops up as well. I also just got this error after going to options and exiting.  I can send over the files, I'm just not sure where to send it.

Okay that error message might help actually. It sounds like a permissions issue. The first suggestion is to check if eeither your global.rpgsave file or your actual file is set to read only mode. To check, right click the file, select properties, and then at the bottom to see if "Read-Only" is checked. Alternatively, you could have the game in a restricted folder. You could try moving the game to a different spot on your computer and running it from there. Or potentially right clicking the .exe file and running as administrator could work. Otherwise for sending the save files you can zip your save folder and upload it to a website, then share the link with me here. This website should work for that. https://pixeldrain.com/

I tried your suggestions, but unfortunately, they didn't work. Here is a save that has the bug.  I hope this isn't too much of a headache, thank you for looking into it.

Alright, so the good news is that I can't replicate any of these errors when opening your save file on my computer. The bad news... is that I can't replicate any of these errors when opening your save file on my computer. These errors happen every time you use check appearance or open and close the options, right? Just to make sure I didn't just get (un)lucky when testing your file.  

Assuming you do get errors every time while I never get them, it means there is almost certainly something going on with your computer specifically, rather than the game itself. The most likely thing for that is again a permissions issue, which reminded me of another user who had the same error as you... 4 years ago lol. (Specifically the error: EPERM one after closing the options menu.)  

The main thing I noticed that could be causing issues is that the game folder used to not have spaces in it, but for some reason, I stopped using underscores and started using spaces. Sometimes computers don't like spaces when reading files, for some reason. So maybe try renaming your games folder from "CiC 0.46.9 Windows" to "CiC_0.46.9_Windows". Or just erase the spaces. It doesn't really matter what it's named as long as there's no spaces. And also continue trying to run it as administrator when launching with any of the suggestions I'm listing.  

Otherwise, the things that fixed the other user with the issue are mostly things I've already suggested. Running as administrator seemed to do it, but their reply was kind of vague, and I also suggested changing their account to be an administrator at the same time, so I'm not entirely sure which suggestion fixed their issue. If changing the name of the game's folder doesn't work, you can try checking if your profile is an administrator or not. Here is the link for that. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-user-account-type-windows-10  

I also suggested they move the game on their computer as I suggested you try, but to be more specific I suggested they put it directly onto their C drive, so the filepath would be C:\CiC_0.46.9_Windows (With the spaces removed). You can get read/write errors from the filepath being too long, so that's also a possibility. 

If all of that doesn't work, I'm not 100% sure what else to try. Have you run other RPG Maker games without encountering these issues? If you have that could maybe point to me being wrong about it being a permissions thing, idk. Hopefully the above works.

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I figured it out, the folder was set as hidden, and changing it solved the problem. Like I said in my first post, probably something I did. My bad for being dumb

Glad it's fixed, I would have never thought to check that.