Raycoms helped me earlier with issue #1994 and edited my colonies.dat file.

Unfortunately, even though this did fix the crashing issue, and did not appear to have any side-effects, it has broken my colony.

The deliverymen now gather, but never deliver anything. I have tried firing/rehiring, fulfilling a few requests manually etc. but they just gather, gather, gather! Interestingly at least one guard is also stuck in "gather" mode, which seems odd!

Help?

I have attached the current colonies.dat file in case it can be edited.

colonies-broken-again.zip

Replace the warehouse!!!!! That took about a week to build and stock ;-(

Will make a copy and try in that.

Wait wait

You should try "Repair" your warehouse first, that'll check all the inventories within and such and re-register them if needed, try that first then try other =D

Ah I have just removed the warehouse chest and rebuilt back as level 1 (was level 3) and that has fixed it (but left me loads of my own double chests full of all the stuff I salvaged when the racks and frames were destroyed!)

Will try backing up this, then restoring the pre-demolish backup and use repair. Thanks for the tip Asherlab.

... well, I wasted a couple of hours!

It looks like Asherlab was right that repair was all that was needed. Have a cookie!