Are you using Win10? If so, is AICarriers in the dreaded C:\Program Files or C:|Program Files(X86)? If so, did you try moving aicarriers.cfg to your desktop, editing it, saving it, then copying it back into the AICarriers folder?
Are you using the older, Java based AICarriers, or the newer AICarriers.NET? Some cases I've seen where the older version won't work properly with P3D. Also, some cases where AICarriers won't work right unless it's placed under the main P3D root folder.
Did you try making a fresh install of AICarriers someplace, and "stealing" it's virgin aicarriers.cfg (because you didn't save before editing[shame shame!
]), then, instead of adding new formations to the aicarriers.cfg file, make a unique .cfg file for the new formation. ANY new formation(s) you want to add, and put it into the conf.d folder. That should be the only place new formations, in new .cfg files, should go. It's what it's there for, after all. Keep the addon formations you aren't using at any given time in a folder UNDER the conf.d folder. Only place a copy in the conf.d folder when you want to use them. Leave the aicarriers.cfg file alone.
This will also prevent an exeedingly long, unwieldy, menu in the sim when you hit SHFT+J. Why search through menu page after menu page if you don't have to?
I'm not certain, but I believe there's a maximum number of formations AICarriers will recognize. It's a pretty large number, granted, but if you go over the max it just ignores them.
It sounds more to me like Windoze isn't permitting the changes you want to make though. It occurs to me, as well, that you may have more than one installation of AICarriers, and perhaps you aren't editing to .cfg file that is being used for P3D? Did you double check the EXE.XML file for the AICarriers installation you're actually using, and ensure that it's the one you're actually editing? Or, if you start it manually, did you check the shortcut was pointing to the folder you were editing from?
Just trying to think of as many possibilities as I can, for ya...
Pat☺
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