I broke my save file being an idiot! Help!!

[CharBot]

Hi gang!! Okay... so I think I've totally broken one of my saves, so I'm posting here as a last resort since I'm also extremely technologically challenged. I have a save file that used to have stardew expanded on it. I was married to Lance. My friend and I decided to delete that mod and download the ridgeside valley mod instead, however Lance's bedroom still appeared in my house. Later on I tried to marry Jio and he said no because I was already married. I tried divorcing and it didn't stick so I'd spend the money and then wake up still married the next day. I tried it a few times and also went to the witch's house to try and erase my romantic history. No dice. I found a post saying I could delete marriage history within my save file. Big mistake. I went in and figured I could just delete any text that had to do with Lance since I deleted that mod and didn't need it. I didn't do any research so I didn't know what I was doing and deleted everything about him from SaveGameInfo, SaveGameInfo_old, as well as [farmname]_[numbercode] and [farmname]_[numbercode]_old. In doing so the save completely disappeared from my main menu because it seems I've broken the code somewhere. Heavy sigh. I replaced the game info doc with one that's working in order to get it back on the main menu but now any time I click on it to open the save it glitches and returns me to the main menu. I think my goose is cooked, but I wanted to check if any code people knew what was going on or had any fixes? I can't revert the docs back. I do have smapi and it gives me a blurb about what is wrong, but I dont understand what it's saying. I'll add that below. Any help would be suuuuper appreciated, but I understand it's probably broken. Super frustrating though because all the rest of the code and the save are right there!! Anyways, thanks for your help~ *Also I'm on a mac, if that's relevant.

[game] deserializeTask failed with an exception.


System.Xml.XmlException: The 'string' start tag on line 1 position 285894 does not match the end tag of 'strimarriageng'. Line 1, position 285905.


at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)


at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args)


at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowTagMismatch(NodeData startTag)


at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseEndElement()


at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()


at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()


at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace)


at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)


at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)


at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)


at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(Stream inStream)


at SpaceCore.Patches.SaveGamePatcher.DeserializeProxy(XmlSerializer serializer, Stream stream, String farmerPath, Boolean fromSaveGame) in C:\Users\space\Programming\StardewValley\StardewValleyMods\SpaceCore\Patches\SaveGamePatcher.cs:line 326


at StardewValley.SaveGame+c__DisplayClass96_0.<getLoadEnumerator>b__1_PatchedBy<spacechase0.SpaceCore>(<>c__DisplayClass96_0 this)


at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.InnerInvoke()


at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.<>c.<.cctor>b__272_0(Object obj)


at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)


--- End of stack trace from previous location ---


at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)


at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ExecuteWithThreadLocal(Task& currentTaskSlot, Thread threadPoolThread)


[SMAPI] An error occurred in the overridden update loop: System.Xml.XmlException: The 'string' start tag on line 1 position 285894 does not match the end tag of 'strimarriageng'. Line 1, position 285905.


at StardewValley.SaveGame+<getLoadEnumerator>d__96.MoveNext_PatchedBy<spacechase0.SpaceCore>(<getLoadEnumerator>d__96 this)


at StardewModdingAPI.Framework.SCore.OnPlayerInstanceUpdating(SGame instance, GameTime gameTime, Action runUpdate)

 

[DreamWolf]

It’s always best to send your full SMAPI log, but considering you’ve made changes to the save file, it’s possible you may have corrupted it. I can take a look at your save if you send me your entire farm as a .zip file, but I can’t make any promises—all I can do is try.