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Medmatheus
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Posted: 12th Mar 2019 16:41
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Hey guys, I was in a 5 hours straight work in a map, and when I press "save" it returned me a runtime error during the save and crashed.

Now I'm trying to open the last saved file and its saying "Cannot Find the file ...", so I went to its folder, and now I have a map with 1 kb size (seem it tried to save but destroyed the map during the process).

Anybody know if I can recover this or if theres any gg back folder that save maps last info?

Man, I dont know what to do now
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Posted: 12th Mar 2019 17:49
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I believe Game Guru does do automatic backups? I'm not at my computer right now. But someone might be able to chime in to help.
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Posted: 12th Mar 2019 17:51 Edited at: 12th Mar 2019 17:54
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EDIT: Teabone says there may be a backup somewhere

Aw man I am so sorry, there is no backup that I know of. I know it is quite soulcrushing to have this happen. Maybe type %temp% into your search bar, open it up, and sesrch for your fpm in there?

I know this doesnt help you now, but SAVE OFTEN as a NEW MAP. This way you have backups. I.e.:

I start a map and save it as "zombies"
Every time I make a few changes save as "zombies2"
And repeat
"zombies3"
"Zombies4"
"Zombies5"
And now it crashes saving "zombies6", but now I still have "zombies5" all the way back to "zombies1"

Sorry I cant help you recover your work.
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Posted: 12th Mar 2019 18:31
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yes if you're lucky you will have a .BAK file in your mapbank folder (name is same as the map name) but it might not be there if you didn't save the map at all
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Posted: 12th Mar 2019 18:39
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For future reference: Always have at least 2 save files. 3 is best.
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Posted: 12th Mar 2019 18:55
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Yea, the .bak of my map is from last month and couldn't find it on other place ....

I saved it many times, but none as a new name,

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Posted: 19th Mar 2019 01:26
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First time user with similar issues,
I saved mine a couple of times and I can see the saves but when I try and load them it fails with "Missing" showing in the entities box.
There is an error message that flashes up very quickly , too fast for me to read in one go.
I think it said an error log was saved in mapbank but I can't find it.




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Posted: 19th Mar 2019 02:47
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Missing media error dialog. In the mapbank folder you should see your mapname.fpm, yourmapname.bak. yourmapname.dat, and a text file with yourmapname.log.

Make a copy of all of them and set them aside.
Rename the original mapfile to anything.
Chang the file with the .bak to .fpm and then see if you can reload your map.

But first open the .log file one and see what it thought was missing.
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Posted: 19th Mar 2019 20:19
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I did find the log, it wan't showing because It was only set to see .fpm files log reads

"MISSING MEDIA:
levelbank\testmap\ebe1.fpe=replacelevelbank\testmap\ebe1.fpe"

For the levels that failed to load there was no backup file created. It seems to be working again now and for the ones that work there is a bakup file created.


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So... what is this-- a newly introduced bug that has infected GG?
Has there just been an update?
Should I be alarmed and back all my work to thumb drives?

I will try. Also, probably should start another thread-- but it's sorta related.
I have been wondering what the state of rectifying the Save Standalone missing items issue?
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Posted: 19th Mar 2019 23:41
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https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220545

This rectifies most of the issues of files not being copied to standalone right now.
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Posted: 20th Mar 2019 14:49
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Very sorry to hear about this Medmatheus.
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