Yes, me too. I came here seeking a solution

I have an issue with the File Loader. Running it for the first time everything worked fine: all my newgens got faces added and also female staff. I disabled male staff to test it. However now if I run the generator again and add the male faces, the newgens keep their face, but my female staff suddenly reverts to the FM gen faces randomly? Before using the tool, they had the black outline face.

I wonder if this has to do with the fact I also never get the “preserve existing picture assignments message”?

This means the scanner reads PA incorrectly as a very low number, like it thinks it is 2 or 3 or something.

I need to do another go at scanner when I have time. Unfortunatelly for me it looks like I must first reverse engineer a lot more of player profile data (even if I dont need it) to better guess on things that I actually need. I now try to cherry pick things out of the bytes sea and… even if the tool is 99.5% correct on a save of 200 000 newgens it means 1000 of them are wrong. And it is enough to 3 of that 1000 to be on your team for you to notice…

I will se what I can do.

It is now automatically always Preserve, so that message is not needed anymore.

Regarding the missing faces - if you check one or two IDs of the missing people - can you find them via Database tab on the profile page?

Thanks for the quick reply! Checking my U19 players everything seems to be working correctly. However I cannot find a way to display the ID for my generic staff (the ones sending me “emails” that are not in Club Staff page) and journalists. 

This issue is specifically affecting them, players and and agents seem to be working. I would not mind as much, if the behaviour was not so baffling because it worked the first time and suddenly it does not?

I have a few players in the Bayern Munich U19 squad who were added via the editor (a file from here). There is now a cut-out available for these players—this one here:

https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/submissions/collection/57782

I created a config for these players, and they appeared in the game without any issues. 

Here's a small excerpt of the config.

<!--Jakob Horvath-->
<record from="2002051274" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002051274/portrait"/>

<!--Jonas El Allali-->
<record from="2002051264" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002051264/portrait"/>

<!--Kuba Horoszczak-->
<record from="2002051279" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002051279/portrait"/>

…

Now my question: 

I ran the NG Regens Manager (v 2.2.3) on my save for the first time. Everything worked perfectly. However, the original images of the Bayern U19 players have now been overwritten by players from the NG_Regens pack. This means my config file is no longer being taken into account. 

What can I do?
 

rename your folder to start with “z”, folders are loaded in alphabetical oder, so going last means it will always be choosed as source over the rest in case of an ID collision

Genearic staff is a coin flip if they work or not. There is no known to me way to get IDs of them or get to them in any meaningful way to troubleshoot.

Okay, thanks. I'll give that a try.

Two more questions, please:
1.) I created a profile named "Bayern Munich" because I'm currently managing Bayern. If I switch clubs in this save, do I have to create a new profile? Or can I keep using the same profile even though it's named "Bayern" and I'm no longer at the club?

2.) I have to run the Regen Manager again after every new youth intake, right? Do I simply go to the "Generate" section, select "Quick Action," and then click the green button labeled "Generate new images"? That's all there is to it, correct?

Thanks in forward.

EDIT: Renaming my folder to start with "z" didn't help. The images for the players in question are still being displayed from the NG_Regens folder—and thus read from the config file created by the NG_Regens Manager.

As far as I know, the trick with the "z" before the folder name only worked up to FM24; it no longer works from FM26 onwards.

Ao executar o programa sem privilégios de administrador, recebo a mensagem "erro ao ler a memória do FM26: FM26 não encontrado ou inacessível". No entanto, ao executá-lo como administrador, ele carrega no máximo 3.000 rostos de jogadores na versão padrão e 300 na versão v2; utilizo o FM26 v26.3.2 offline. 
Is it normal for only 3,000 player faces to be generated in the first season if I didn't simulate all the way to the end?

1. one profile equals one savegame, doesnt matter what you do in that save. The name is purely cosmetical for you to know what each one is if you have more than one.
2. Yes, you simply redo the same thing again exactly as you have described

Regarding the namin - that is what has helped by all other users. You sure it is not got cached somehow? Have you tried to fully exit FM and then restart again?

It depends on how many leagues have you loaded. For day 1 on 1 league loaded 3000 is plausible, but a bit on the low end.

Is this a native FM26 save or is it migrated from FM24 or FM23?

I loaded the top 5 leagues, and even if I advance another 1 or 2 days, it’s certain to generate exactly the same number it generated before.

The first image shows the `regens_folder` and the `config` file after I had run the `regens_manager` for the first time in that save game.

In the second picture, you can seThis is the folder path and the config for some of the Bayern U19 players. Before I ran the Regens_Manager, these images were displayed in the game for the exact right players.      

After running Regens_Manager and renaming the folder containing the Bayern U19 players to "z_..." (with FM 26 closed in each instance), the game still does not display the players' original photos; instead, it continues to show the "fake" image generated by Regens_Manager.                        

I managed to fix this; I don't need to run it as an administrator anymore, but it still caps out at 3800. However, I'm pretty sure those generated faces aren't actually in the game, because when I generate and save them, it produces the exact same number.