So, like most people, I downloaded the 1.5 patch today. Installation went fine, I read some of the new editor features and was ready to add them to my mod. I load up the editor, go to open recent... no mod... several other things are missing but they are less important. OK, whatever, I go the long route and find it in my folders. When I finally find it, I open it and test it to see if anything is broken and there is; custom ui isn't right, none of the custom units are visible and the selection dialog that is supposed to show at startup isn't there. So I exit that and decide to work on the units first, I open the data editor and look up my main heroes. I notice that two old units that I replaced are still there and all the abilities are old.
Panic
I run a search (twice) for the file and get an 8 month old copy in another folder, this sucks. I reopen the the editor and check my published and find a version published 2 months ago. This is about the last time I had published it, not so bad. Unfortunately I have put alot of work into the mod in those 2 months and would really hate to have to redo that much.
So, has this happened to anyone else and is there any way to get the lost file back..
I think this is something that was severely overlooked.. I read here and there about mod files being wiped. There should have been a prior warning for us to backup our mods (not that I didn't). I don't think you're alone on this one.
Same thing happened to me today but fortunately we keep our main work mod on dropbox. You should always back up your mods and maps. You can automatically do so in the editor preferences.
Blizzard should have thought about this, but most likely didn't because they've been in game design so long that backing up their projects is habitual in nature.
I feel your pain though arc. Hope you can rekindle the motivation to re-create your work.
The way I make myself feel better when I lose work is tell myself whatever I was doing was shitty and not meant to be. :D
My mods folder was wiped, but my maps are all still there. Like creation, all of my 'serious' maps are in my team dropbox anyways (which, by the way, is a great backup option even if you're not on a team).Though I'm unable to publish :/
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Ya, in retrospect backing it up or publishing would have been smart. I didn't publish it though because I had errors that were not big but annoying so I opted not to. I knew that the patch would bugger things up, but I was not expecting something this bad.
While some aspect of the mod are easy to reproduce, I had data retrieval for paired abilities' (like the campaign lab upgrades) buttons, names and tooltips for multiple levels so that they could be displayed and upgraded in dialogs, that might take a few days to recreate but is doable. I'm slightly glad that I hadn't worked on the abilities lately, I had about 20/144 done and with 7 levels each, losing all that would have really hurt. Mainly I'll have to go through every trigger to figure out what I lost and what I had adjusted. From now on though, weekly publication and backing up on a USB stick...
Dick move from Blizz, wouldn't hurt me though since after closing the SC2 editor I always click on a .bat that sends all the important shit to a Dropbox folder.
I kinda used common sense - when they said they needed to 'rearrange stuff' i literally cut all my custom mods from the folder cause I knew they would be messing around with em. =\
You are sure you are looking in your "StarCraft II Beta" folder right? Not the "StarCraft II" folder it defaults to in the release version of the editor? Windows search is often broken in my experience.
I backed up my map files to another hard drive last night before the patch, but the patch didn't do anything to my files. They were all in those folders in My Documents.
Apparently I copied the mod files to my enUS client after the patching.
On my European clients the mod files have been wiped out. But I had backups, so np4me.
Also don't try to uninstal starcraft 2 beta in the normal way or it wil wipe your original starcraft 2 folder instad and again you loose every mod and your maps too! I made an backup before patch but when i put back the files and wanted to uninstal the beta i lost everything :/
So, like most people, I downloaded the 1.5 patch today. Installation went fine, I read some of the new editor features and was ready to add them to my mod. I load up the editor, go to open recent... no mod... several other things are missing but they are less important. OK, whatever, I go the long route and find it in my folders. When I finally find it, I open it and test it to see if anything is broken and there is; custom ui isn't right, none of the custom units are visible and the selection dialog that is supposed to show at startup isn't there. So I exit that and decide to work on the units first, I open the data editor and look up my main heroes. I notice that two old units that I replaced are still there and all the abilities are old.
Panic
I run a search (twice) for the file and get an 8 month old copy in another folder, this sucks. I reopen the the editor and check my published and find a version published 2 months ago. This is about the last time I had published it, not so bad. Unfortunately I have put alot of work into the mod in those 2 months and would really hate to have to redo that much.
So, has this happened to anyone else and is there any way to get the lost file back..
I think this is something that was severely overlooked.. I read here and there about mod files being wiped. There should have been a prior warning for us to backup our mods (not that I didn't). I don't think you're alone on this one.
My mods in the "Mods" folder are fine and I never had problems with these.
Did you use a special file name? :S
I had a feeling this would happen to people.
Same thing happened to me today but fortunately we keep our main work mod on dropbox. You should always back up your mods and maps. You can automatically do so in the editor preferences.
Blizzard should have thought about this, but most likely didn't because they've been in game design so long that backing up their projects is habitual in nature.
I feel your pain though arc. Hope you can rekindle the motivation to re-create your work.
The way I make myself feel better when I lose work is tell myself whatever I was doing was shitty and not meant to be. :D
@Creation25: Go
My mods folder was wiped, but my maps are all still there. Like creation, all of my 'serious' maps are in my team dropbox anyways (which, by the way, is a great backup option even if you're not on a team).Though I'm unable to publish :/
Ya, in retrospect backing it up or publishing would have been smart. I didn't publish it though because I had errors that were not big but annoying so I opted not to. I knew that the patch would bugger things up, but I was not expecting something this bad.
While some aspect of the mod are easy to reproduce, I had data retrieval for paired abilities' (like the campaign lab upgrades) buttons, names and tooltips for multiple levels so that they could be displayed and upgraded in dialogs, that might take a few days to recreate but is doable. I'm slightly glad that I hadn't worked on the abilities lately, I had about 20/144 done and with 7 levels each, losing all that would have really hurt. Mainly I'll have to go through every trigger to figure out what I lost and what I had adjusted. From now on though, weekly publication and backing up on a USB stick...
Thanks guys.
Dick move from Blizz, wouldn't hurt me though since after closing the SC2 editor I always click on a .bat that sends all the important shit to a Dropbox folder.
Happened to me aswell. I dont think this was intended by Blizzard, probably a big mistake.
Glad that we had backups. I hope nobody totally lost his/her work.
I kinda used common sense - when they said they needed to 'rearrange stuff' i literally cut all my custom mods from the folder cause I knew they would be messing around with em. =\
Anyway this can be prevented?
Make backup at an other place on the computer?
Or rather, no matter if the MODs are backuped or not, will they still be able to be published again?
I made backup before the update.
You are sure you are looking in your "StarCraft II Beta" folder right? Not the "StarCraft II" folder it defaults to in the release version of the editor? Windows search is often broken in my experience.
I backed up my map files to another hard drive last night before the patch, but the patch didn't do anything to my files. They were all in those folders in My Documents.
I still can't believe but ... it is inevitable... all of my mods are gone after the patch-ing.
And I thought this day is blessed T_T
Apparently I copied the mod files to my enUS client after the patching.
On my European clients the mod files have been wiped out. But I had backups, so np4me.
Also don't try to uninstal starcraft 2 beta in the normal way or it wil wipe your original starcraft 2 folder instad and again you loose every mod and your maps too! I made an backup before patch but when i put back the files and wanted to uninstal the beta i lost everything :/
C:\ProgramData\Blizzard Entertainment\Battle.net\Cache
Use something like spacemonger to narrow down the date modified and in the horde of .S2MA files (which you can use a mpq editor to open)
Then with any luck a more up to date version will be in there, sadly mine is gone T_T".
I've posted a support ticket to see if they have a secret backup they didn't tell anyone about.
Ha ha ha I'm so dumb I had all of my just maps for terrain and stuff in my mods folder. All gone prob at least 30 hours of terraining :(
TIME TO START A NEW PROJECT
@IggNight: Go
I checked all folders by hand (within reason ofcourse..) and found nothing. Hopefully though, theres is a place and someone will find it.
@GhostNova91: Go
That really sucks... Especially it being and artistic thing terraining. I Hope that you can recreate it as well (or better) that before... GL,HF.
@arc000: Go
see my post.