Disappearing inventory bug on switch

[Jim Hawkins]

Hello! I made an account for this in the hopes that i can fix this, because it looks solveable. 

I loaded a save on switch and many items were missing from the inventory, but the world is as i left it.

 

After trying different things and searching online, several people that had this bug suggested it had something to do with online, and i remembered that after sleep mode i had got some kind of connection lost message yesterday. 

So with that in mind i tried playing in flight mode on the same save and the items were back! Hurray. So i turned online back on and the items are again gone, same save. Based on this information, can someone please suggest a way to save my items? 

ps: the game is awesome so far. I've been an obisidian fan for years and i'm glad to have finally joined this community even on this occasion. Unfortunately i don't have a lot of time to play/ test, and restarting seems unlikely if there's fear that this might happen again. Since this seems well documented and i can access my items when offline, i'm hoping there's some way to bypass this issue. It seems like the inventory is syncing with some previous state when playing online or something? 

Thanks

[Jim Hawkins]

so i think i worked it out in a roundabout way by storing my items in boxes in offline mode. Going back online and loading the save i found that

a. Old items that weren't missing before spawned back in my inventory

b. All items i had stored in the boxes were still in the boxes.

 

So it seems i did get my items back and even a few duplicates for my troubles. I didn't have time to load another time and ensure the problems stopped, and i do worry because this is quite silly - these are different save files- but i'm hopeful that everything will be fine for now. 

Edited Wednesday at 11:21 AM by Jim Hawkins

[Jim Hawkins]

sorry for the incoherent messages above, i don't think i can edit the typos. I wanted to clarify in case someone with the same problem googles this that one of the save files in this process got corrupted seemingly: loading it drops me to the character select like in new game. But i had multiple so it wasn't an issue, but definitely something to keep in mind if you try what i did.