[Crash] My broken Map - Level Info data missing or invalid

[King I Rat]

So i have been working on a map now since 2010 or so and i have not encountered this before. Yesterday when working on it, i was working on a trigger which was giving me some difficulty which involved a custom script. I decided that instead of getting pissed off, i would close down shop for the day and do something else.

Well today when i tried to open my map again i get the message:

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Unable to load file <My map>

- Level Info data missing or invalid

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So i searched around google and such to find a solution and found out that people sometimes use a similar method to protect their maps. Did i accidentally make a trigger which blocked me out of being able to access my map? and is there a way to reverse it without me having to go back a couple of backups and redo a couple of days work?

The trigger i was working on was a spell trigger so i have no idea how i managed to F-UP this badly. Any help is appreciated

-NctheChurch

 

[IcemanBo]

Do you often use the test possibility of world editor? If yes, you can look up in your warcraft III folder --> Maps --> Test -> WorldEditTestMap.

That's your last playable version of your last tested map. Maybe you are lucky.. I would not more for now :s

 

[WaterKnight]

Your map was most-likely saved faulty and therefore lost data. Level info data is like the first data the editor tries to access, so probably the whole file is destroyed. Well, you can upload the map so we can take a look into it with an MPQ Editor. If you are using JNGP, each time it saves, it creates a backup in jassnewgenpack\backups.

 

[King I Rat]

Do you often use the test possibility of world editor? If yes, you can look up in your warcraft III folder --> Maps --> Test -> WorldEditTestMap.

That's your last playable version of your last tested map. Maybe you are lucky.. I would not more for now :s

I had forgotten all about that thing. It seems to have worked. +1 for you my good sir!

 

[King I Rat]

Your map was most-likely saved faulty and therefore lost data. Level info data is like the first data the editor tries to access, so probably the whole file is destroyed. Well, you can upload the map so we can take a look into it with an MPQ Editor. If you are using JNGP, each time it saves, it creates a backup in jassnewgenpack\backups.

Thank you for the offer, luckily IcemanBo's suggestion worked and such complications will not have to be applied. Thank you for your offer and the quick response, +1

 

[deathismyfriend]

Please do not double post. Hit the edit button on your last post instead.

 

[AnonymousPro]

Your map was most-likely saved faulty and therefore lost data. Level info data is like the first data the editor tries to access, so probably the whole file is destroyed. Well, you can upload the map so we can take a look into it with an MPQ Editor. If you are using JNGP, each time it saves, it creates a backup in jassnewgenpack\backups.

hmm where is the level info stored?

 

[WaterKnight]

war3map.w3i

But as I said or meant, when the editor compiles the map, the whole mpq archive needs to be built and therefore it's unlikely that it's just the info file that got damaged.