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...
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..
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@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.
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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...
Thanks guys.
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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..