Cinematic Contest: Map no longer works.

[Pharaoh_]

I was veeeeeeeeery disappointed in the morning.
I have this very annoying problem of my laptop being turned off by a random time factor. It might be the fact of overheating, but I still don't know, which I'll find out on Monday (when i get it for service).
Apparently, the many turn-off's of the laptop turned my map into a memory. I put much of effort into it, it is supposed to be for the Cinematic Contest, but, this is what i get now:

"Unable to load file "Cinematic_Contest_#4.w3x"
-Level info data missing or invalid.

My laptop got 4 turn-off's today. When I turned my laptop on after the fourth turn-off, that message appears since then and my map won't load of course (yeah, the laptop was turning off, while the Editor was still opened with the map on, so it might have crashed the map).
What can I do? It seems like a useless file. I tried opening it in another pc with Warcraft III installed, but it just won't open in the Editor or the game itself. I lost everything... I am working on it more than a week now, I was about to finish it and then I get this. Why? For spending hours and hours over this to get this result? Anyone? :/ I can't sit and do nothing, I can't accept it. I honestly spent (with this event, i should use the verb "lost" instead of "waste") many hours, I desperately need help.

 

[HorizonTal]

Maybe you should try to open it with another kind of Map Editor, and find what's wrong.
Try with this one featured among our resources:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/tools-560/zepirs-war3-map-editor-1-0-a-62889/

 

[Reaper2008]

Here's what you can try:

Get an MPQ Editor and see if it can open the corrupted map, and salvage anything. Unfortunately, all your triggers will be JASS.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Ok, I tried Zepir's Editor, it opened me up with two blank windows (white and black each). Then, I opened it with Jass New Gen Pack, the same error message shows up. Finally, I browsed it via an MPQ Editor, it opens it, but it doesn't display the proper files within the file itself: It actually shows nothing; just a blank window that claims the map been opened. Anything else? How come I lost the map data? It's way idiot.

 

[HorizonTal]

This is a very stupid and simple solution, I think you've already tried it, but still...
Check in the folder
C:\Programs\Warcraft III\Maps\Test
if a tested version of your map has automatically been saved there.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Well, I did not check it to be honest, I'll check it when I get home. So, if there is indeed the latest version (I don't think i saved or tested any other map afterwards), that map will be stable and working? That map is what I am about to use?

 

[HorizonTal]

when you click on the Test button (or activate it with Ctrl+F9) in the editor, to make a rapid test of your map, a version of that map is saved in the folder C:\Programs\Warcraft III\Maps\Test.

But when you test a map all the other maps in that folder are deleted, so there's always only 1 map in it.
If you tested other maps after that, it has been erased.

If that map is the last one you tested, and you used the button in the image I've attached to try it, you'll find it there.

I'm sorry if what I'm saying and what I'm showing you is too obvious.

 

[Pharaoh_]

It is obvious actually, I know all of this stuff
I just can't figure out why the map in the Test folder should be working, while the map in the original destination wouldn't (?).

 

[HorizonTal]

first of all, the map you can't open and the one in that folder are two different files, and no other map in your computer is corrupted, right?
Furthermore, it has been automatically saved right before a test that you performed without problems of this kind.
If it's still there, it will work.

That folder saved my maps many many times, I really hope you may be as lucky as I was.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Right, no other file got corrupted. BUT! How will i realize what thing made my map get corrupted?

 

[HorizonTal]

The working map will have something less than the corrupted but more complete one. Try to remember what it is, and be careful not to add it.
Or just save often in different files, so you can corrupt as many files as you want.
Maybe it's just your laptop's fault, and what you did to the map has nothing to do with the corruption.
I hope you find a map that works in the Test folder-that's what matters now!

 

[Pharaoh_]

Thanx a lot for your input. The only hope i'm left with is this. If I remember well, I didn't test any other map afterwards, so, let's hope luck is with me this time. Thanks again