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Today I was working on my level (That I have been working on for weeks), and then I exited. When I came back, I opened the level, it opened and just showed a Question Mark Box. That was it, everything else was gone. I tried to exit and come back, didn't work. I rebooted my computer, didn't work. The file is still in my folder, still has the picture on it, and still says when it was last modified, today. Please help. I need to get all that stuff back. This is my Indiana Jones Level (All of the 1st movie). Like I said, I have been working on this for weeks. I really, really need this back. Any Suggestions? :( >:(

P#6895 2012-12-17 20:52 ( Edited 2012-12-26 04:04)

This is the second time (that I know of) someone lost a lot of work. It's about the crappiest thing software can do to a person, and I'm really, really sorry.

If you want, please send me the level file and I'll see if there's anything recoverable (joseph at lexaloffle dot com, or post it here)

I fixed a bug similar to this one, and couldn't get it to show up again -- do you remember anything about what you were doing before closing Voxatron? Is it possible you cut the room (control-X), or were shifting things between folders?

I'll try to get this fixed ASAP, but in the meantime anyone using 0.2.2 should make regular backups.

P#6896 2012-12-17 22:48 ( Edited 2012-12-18 03:48)

Ok, sent at [email protected]. Thank you very much. :)

And just so you know, I deleted an object by accident, so I exited and then came back. That's when everything disappeared. :(

P#6898 2012-12-17 23:01 ( Edited 2012-12-18 04:03)

Any luck?

P#6902 2012-12-20 17:41 ( Edited 2012-12-20 22:41)

Hey, just wanted to let you know, but I opened one of my models from the level and it opened with all the rooms I've created before saving that model. I didn't get everything back but I only lost like 3 small rooms. So... I guess you don't need to worry about it... :/

P#6903 2012-12-21 00:45 ( Edited 2012-12-21 05:45)

Wow, that's great news!

I'm still trying to figure out what's going on though.. the level file you sent me looked completely obliterated (I sent a separate email).

Do you mean you had saved the model as a separate file, and it somehow included the rooms in the same file? Or when you went to edit a model, suddenly the rooms because accessible from the navigator?

P#6904 2012-12-21 04:14 ( Edited 2012-12-21 09:15)

I mean I saved the model as a separate file, and it somehow included rooms in the same file.

P#6905 2012-12-21 13:50 ( Edited 2012-12-21 18:50)

Interesting. Thanks, I'll check it out.

By the way I've added a brute-force backup scheme for next version to safeguard against tragic data loss.. each time you save over a file, the previous version gets appended to an ever-growing journal of previous versions. This doesn't impact performance much as the levels are quite small.

P#6907 2012-12-21 17:03 ( Edited 2012-12-21 22:04)

Awesome. So, is there anyway that you could somehow restore one of my previous saves of the file?

P#6910 2012-12-21 17:39 ( Edited 2012-12-21 22:56)

Anything saved from 0.2.3 onwards, yes. But earlier versions don't store any kind of backup data anywhere.

ok, I think I have this one mostly figured out. In 0.2.2 bug, the default file name to save as would be shared between items and levels. This was quite dangerous -- you might have used the "Save Item" button instead of "Save Level" button and then saved over it. This results in similar behaviour to the file you sent me (although -- that file seemed to not even have any models inside it).

This is fixed now in v0.2.3, so hopefully that was the problem. I also made some changes to make the difference between Level files and Item files clearer (e.g. item files are now called something.vob.png by default).

P#6913 2012-12-22 16:25 ( Edited 2012-12-22 21:31)

Yeah, I always press ctrl + s when I'm in the rooms tab, and that is what saves the level. I press ctrl + s in the objects tab when I want to save a .vob. So... I still don't know how the file just disappeared. :(

P#6914 2012-12-22 16:59 ( Edited 2012-12-22 21:59)

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