One or more of your client settings files, which include your hotbar settings, failed

[Rainingstairs]

One or more of your client settings files, which include your hotbar settings, failed to save.

I have been getting this message since I started playing the game 6 months ago and it seems apparently random and it comes in waves. Sometimes I will get the message 10 times in a single day, other times I'll go weeks without seeing it. Never during any specific in-game action.

Today, I logged on and all of my hotbars had been reset completely. That was the first time they have actually been deleted. The warning was a rather harmless, if not ominous, warning until today.

So far, I have:

Deleted all locally saved files
Made sure FF has access to all files and has appropriate permissions

Yet the message persists.

TY

[Dynratygus]

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[DrWho2010]

i have heard theories about one drive locking files at the same time FFXIV is updating files causes this message to appear. since One Drive is accessing them FFXIV can't. I don't know why you had a sudden deletion of everything tho.

[Rhaervis]

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