starfield settings folder - how to restore...

I had so much hope but alas it did not work. The verify integrity of game files doesn't seem to work otherwise it would detect the ini config files are missing. Any further ideas how to get the game to populate it? Are there any console commands to get it to work? I'm so used to Steam being able to fix this stuff when things go wrong.

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I've just spent the last hour or so trawling Reddit and found the answer. Windows Security has a section called Protection History, in there are million "Protected folder access blocked" entries and allowing one of those fixes the game.

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I found a fix on PC from a guy on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/166ugs5/this_save_relies_on_content_that_is_no_longer/

1. go to your xbox folder /xbox games)
   
2. in the xbox folder you will find 3 folders\
   
   1. Constellation
      
   2. Old Mars
      
   3. Starfield
      
3. go into the Constellation folder and copy all the files except the content folder into the Starfield folder (all the EACExxx files)
   
4. go into the Constellation folder -> go into the Content folder -> go into the data folder and copy the 3 files, then go into the Starfield folder -> Content folder -> data folder and paste the 3 files there.
   
5. Repeat step 3 and 4 but now for the Old Mars folder. (Copy again the EACE files into the starfield folder and again copy the 3 files from the Old Mars data folder into the data folder of Starfield
   
6. launch the game and the error should be gone