but i bet set compat and run as admin will fix everything (except already known sometimes crash when switching from personal stash to shared) Problem is on your side, smth blocking these files from being saved properly. Also after session try check actual MXL saves folder for files '_sharedstash.shared' and 'charactername.stash'. If above won't help - try check destination folders properties if there's any of them checked as 'read-only'. Are you sure you running game as admin (exactly game.exe AND diablo II.exe, also they must be set to compatibility mode of winXP SP3 - this may fix random frequent access violation crashes)? Only reason why items disappearing from stashes is that game cannot save/rewrite stash files somewhy. This happens all the time, absolutely consistently, and this fact MUST have been obvious to the developers if they had spent so much as a few minutes playtesting the game. Mr_Bill wrote:No matter WHAT I do - whether in Single Player or (local, TCP/IP multiplayer) - items placed in either version of the Stash, simply disappear between game sessions.