Re-installation Missing Maps

[mattdraw]

Hey, kind of mildly freaking out right now. I've been using an older version of Warcraft III to make custom maps and I've just purchased a digital copy of the game. Before Re-installing, I cut and pasted my old Warcraft III program folder to a different location, thinking it would copy all of my maps. Before re-installing, the files were there before but with a lock over them and for some reason were only visible when opening files with the World Editor. Now when I open the World Editor my old custom maps don't appear in the pasted folder, and I can't see them while looking through files normally. I've tried making Windows show hidden files. Any help with this? I was thinking of doing System Restore to see if that would help.

 

[Xonok]

Make the editor always open as admin.

 

[mattdraw]

Still nothing. It's odd, almost like the editor never actually saved it to my hard-drive. The folders I made to organize them are still there in the pasted version and they're reading as 0 kb. Does Warcraft III delete all the custom files when you install it?

 

[Wietlol]

if you use windows, the files might still be saved in the pc's memory.
Just go to your war3 folder and right click on maps.
go to properties and then to the tab "Previous Versions" (Might have a slightly different name)
Then you get a list of the storage of that map. Double click on one of them and if that one has your maps, you can copy and paste them to your current hard drive.

I don't know about the lock on the maps but that could be figgured out when you have retrieved your maps.

 

[mattdraw]

Thanks but nah, the properties tab isn't finding anything for previous versions.