Help!

[WereElf]

Okay, I finally got JNGP 2.
I opened my map with it. I put 2 functions form the header into another trigger, and made them a library.
I saved the map, it gave me an error.
And now I can't open my map anymore!

Please help! (I don't have a recent backup of it >.<)
~It says "Main map file could not be opened"~

 

[Arad MNK]

JNGP 2 has some backup, I think 24 backups. They are in your JNGP folder. Look for your map there.

Also, you can fix the map with an MPQ editor, dunno how though.

 

[WereElf]

Yeah, but I had been making this map (until now) in WE. So there isn't any backup in the JNPG's folder x_x
(got JNGP 2 just today)
This is the error that ruined my map!

Seems like the Object data extractor has caused it...

EDIT: I disabled the ODE, and now I was able to save my map properly.
Is there any way I can recover my triggers from the broken map?

 

[WereElf]

Actually nevermind.
The map's file size is 1 KB.
No way there would be anything useful left...
4 days of scripting gone to waste
At least I had posted parts of what I've made during the last days in the forum here and there, and now I can recover some stuff + it's a bit faster to write code in vJASS + I know how my triggers will end up looking like

But I have an offtopic question:
Can I turn off JNGP's "predictings". It's annoying when I want to use a variable "count" and it suggests me "CountLivingUnitsInRect" or something, and when I press enter - my variable's name gets changed..

 

[Mercious]

Can't answer your question, but if you are using Windows you might look for a system recovery point, if you are lucky there is one of the last 1-4 days

 

[nedio95]

A few words: Version control and backup, look into those.
Gl & hf

 

[WereElf]

Well, I'm glad that Hive keeps the old version(s) of edited posts, I could recover more triggers than I expected
Only few remain missing, but most of them can easily be restored.

However, can anyone answer this:

Can I turn off JNGP's "predictings". It's annoying when I want to use a variable "count" and it suggests me "CountLivingUnitsInRect" or something, and when I press enter - my variable's name gets changed..

 

[Chaosy]

That's why you name your variables with caution, in order to avoid that.

 

[SAUS]

I always email myself a copy of the map every once in a while. That way, my computer could die a horrible death, and I would still have the map somewhere - unless gmail also dies a horrible death, but that is quite unlikely I also play decently frequently with a friend, so that also backs it up haha.

Hopefully your project isn't too damage by this, though :/

 

[WereElf]

Well, luckily I had a backup from 5 days ago, and I had posted parts of my triggers here an there around the forum.
Recovered about 50% of the triggers I had made from the forum
And I had to re-do the rest.
It didn't take me as long to re-create them as it took me to create them, since I already knew how are they supposed to turn out.

And there is even a bright side:
Some of the restored triggers turned out better than I had made them before

At the moment I'm back to where I was before losing the map.

 

[Wietlol]

If you can open the map with an MPQ editor, you can read and copy the war3map.j, which is the JASS compiled file.
It wont help much for GUI triggers, but for JASS or vJASS (if you can de-parse it), it will be useful.