Opening one of the saves again in 1.7.x resulted in the chests being present but all appearing to be oriented in the same direction. For double chests the texture was rotated but the blocks themselves weren't for activation or destruction (there was an invisible 'chest' block where the second should have been). Also my sitting dogs kept moving about but retaining the sitting position, and their collars weren't visible. Destroying a chest (or half of a double chest) and replacing it seemed to overwrite the data and those appeared properly in 1.8, but simply adding or removing items didn't. Maybe my saves got partially corrupted through some other manner but it seems odd that 3 different sets of backups from different times and saved in different places are behaving in the exact same manner.
I mean OLD beta - as in from years ago, unfortunately I lost my later saves somewhere. But one of them was opened in 1.7.x with no problems and is now having issues.
Opening one of the saves again in 1.7.x resulted in the chests being present but all appearing to be oriented in the same direction. For double chests the texture was rotated but the blocks themselves weren't for activation or destruction (there was an invisible 'chest' block where the second should have been). Also my sitting dogs kept moving about but retaining the sitting position, and their collars weren't visible.
Destroying a chest (or half of a double chest) and replacing it seemed to overwrite the data and those appeared properly in 1.8, but simply adding or removing items didn't.
Maybe my saves got partially corrupted through some other manner but it seems odd that 3 different sets of backups from different times and saved in different places are behaving in the exact same manner.