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Data Loss? (Solved)
I have no idea quite what to label this as, so I'm just going to write my narrative and hope for the best:
I've been working on a campaign for the last several weeks and I was a couple of missions in at this point, but I'd been noticing for a few weeks that the campaign files were only visible in the editor or the game; I couldn't find them in Explorer or any other program. This kinda bothered me for a while, but it never caused any problems, so I started ignoring it. Well, this morning I went in to fix an error with a loading screen I noticed the other day, so I went into the campaign in the editor, but when I was done editing it wouldn't save the map. All it would do is complain of being unable to find the "WorldEditTemp" folder, and when I manually generated the folder, it began asking for several folders inside it, at which point I stopped and deleted the folder. I tried to run World Editor as an administrator, wondering if the program was having permission errors creating the folders, but when I did that, my campaign was just gone. It - not to mention any other campaign file I had generated - had disappeared from my recent files and from the campaign folder, and when I went into Frozen Throne to check if it was still in the game, it prompted me to create a new single-player ID because apparently my old ones (including WorldEdit) were gone. I wondered for a while if the entire game had had some sort of giant freak data dump, but it still remembered the last name I had used in multiplayer, so I'm totally stumped.
The files are still there when I open the editor in non-administrator mode, but I still can't save any of the files, and I still can't find any of them outside of the editor. I opened Frozen Throne again just to be sure and it prompted me to make a new single-player ID a second time, even though I'd just made one five minutes before. I've started running that as administrator as well and it remembers my ID now, but my campaign is still gone, as are any map files I have created outside of the campaigns. All I know is that I have lost several weeks' work across two campaigns with no idea how to recover the files or if they even can be recovered. Any insight here would be appreciated because I have seen nothing like this before.
I'm trying to add screenshots but I can't get them to link from my gallery, so I'm just going to post the links to them. Sorry...
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/members/143048-albums8336-picture100364.html
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/members/143048-albums8336-picture100365.html
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/members/143048-albums8336-picture100366.html
I have no idea quite what to label this as, so I'm just going to write my narrative and hope for the best:
I've been working on a campaign for the last several weeks and I was a couple of missions in at this point, but I'd been noticing for a few weeks that the campaign files were only visible in the editor or the game; I couldn't find them in Explorer or any other program. This kinda bothered me for a while, but it never caused any problems, so I started ignoring it. Well, this morning I went in to fix an error with a loading screen I noticed the other day, so I went into the campaign in the editor, but when I was done editing it wouldn't save the map. All it would do is complain of being unable to find the "WorldEditTemp" folder, and when I manually generated the folder, it began asking for several folders inside it, at which point I stopped and deleted the folder. I tried to run World Editor as an administrator, wondering if the program was having permission errors creating the folders, but when I did that, my campaign was just gone. It - not to mention any other campaign file I had generated - had disappeared from my recent files and from the campaign folder, and when I went into Frozen Throne to check if it was still in the game, it prompted me to create a new single-player ID because apparently my old ones (including WorldEdit) were gone. I wondered for a while if the entire game had had some sort of giant freak data dump, but it still remembered the last name I had used in multiplayer, so I'm totally stumped.
The files are still there when I open the editor in non-administrator mode, but I still can't save any of the files, and I still can't find any of them outside of the editor. I opened Frozen Throne again just to be sure and it prompted me to make a new single-player ID a second time, even though I'd just made one five minutes before. I've started running that as administrator as well and it remembers my ID now, but my campaign is still gone, as are any map files I have created outside of the campaigns. All I know is that I have lost several weeks' work across two campaigns with no idea how to recover the files or if they even can be recovered. Any insight here would be appreciated because I have seen nothing like this before.
I'm trying to add screenshots but I can't get them to link from my gallery, so I'm just going to post the links to them. Sorry...
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/members/143048-albums8336-picture100364.html
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/members/143048-albums8336-picture100365.html
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/members/143048-albums8336-picture100366.html
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