[Crash] Map could not be opened

[T. D. W.]

Hey, does anybody knows what is happening here???? Plz help

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[PurgeandFire]

That is often an indicator that your map has become corrupted, for one reason or another.

You'll have to try to find a backup. If you are using JNGP, go to your JNGP folder and look under the "backups" folder. You should have some backup maps in there that will load correctly.

If you don't have JNGP, go to your Warcraft III folder, click "Maps" and open your "Test" folder. Hopefully your map is there.

P.S. Instead of taking a picture of your screen, you should be able to click "print screen", ctrl+c and ctrl+v into paint. If you can't do this (e.g. print screen doesn't work), then ignore this statement.

 

[T. D. W.]

So basically, nothing can be done to it, this happened right after my computer shutted down for no reason (the map was saving)
And hopefully i backed it up yesterday (before that the last back up was from a month 0.0 lucky me)

 

[PurgeandFire]

Yes, I'm afraid so. That is usually how it happens--PC crashes during saving and the map goes boom. Just make sure you check your "test" folder, it has saved many maps. Make sure you don't test anything in WE until you check it, or else it may overwrite the map in there!

 

[T. D. W.]

Ok thx for the tip

 

[Dr Super Good]

This is why Blizzard should have made the editor update maps using atomic file transactions. Either no change should be done to the map, or all changes are done to the map. If the system crashes before all changes are done to the map, you should be left with no changes being done.

 

[mckill2009]

try restoring your computer before the crash...

 

[Dr Super Good]

Or if it is Windows 7 and you bothered to setup Shadow Copies on the drive the map as stored in, you can Restore to a Previous version. This works wonders with StarCraft II banks (no negative progress FTW).