Transferring offline characters between devices

So I encountered this strange problem:

I created a character on my Laptop and played it while I was on the way and offline. At home, I wanted to transfer the character to my desktop-PC and continue playing, so I transferred the respective “charactername.d2s” file in the known manner. Now, the character is visible and can be selected BUT the game freezes everytime I want to play him.

I can create new offline characters and play them on my desktop-PC just fine, it is only the transferred character that freezes the loading screen.

Since this is such a strange problem I am rather helpless and I invested too much hours into the character to just dismiss him - so any help here is highly appreciated!

Hummm… that sounds odd.

I would try to first backup all your save files, then load the save file you wish to transfer using this tool d2s.dschu012.dev

The click Save D2R and move this new file to your d2r save directory. Make sure to remove any old copies from the directory and any files related to the character (not the shared stash!!), like the .ma0 files

Does it still work on your laptop? Maybe the file got corrupted when you transferred it?

Did you also copy the other associated files? (.ctl, .key, .ma*) These aren’t necessary, as the game will recreate them if missing, but maybe try with and without those files.

Great Idea, but did not work. But at least I got to report the error and the code:
8E0621D4-5CED-474F-8FF2-0A9D5419C9BD

What was the solution here? Was one found?