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Posted by ben_j_davis on Tue Nov 1st at 9:29am 2005

Ever make a really stupid mistake when you were very tired?

Well last night i did!

For some un-known reason CS:S/HL2 didn't want to boot, giving some strange error like 'Steam.exe - Entry Point Not Found'. So after an hour or so trying out different things and trawling the forums i decided to re-install Steam.

What I didn't realise after re-installing that for some reason all my mapping files had been deleted. I can't understand why it would overwrite/delete custom files?

Anyway i've lost my map i've been working on for 6 months. I did have a back-up but its very old. (I guess its my fought for not backing up this file on a regular basis.) Using an a file recovery program i managed to retrieve some of the original files but they are corrupted and cant be opened.

I just hope I can salvage something.




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Posted by Crapceeper on Tue Nov 1st at 10:16am 2005

oh my gosh. That's horrible.

I wish you all the best for your salvation.

But let me tell you one thing. It's not your fault. I would not have expected this either. This is just crazy... And probably another reason why I do not an hopfully never will map with steam....


take care



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Posted by ReNo on Tue Nov 1st at 11:14am 2005

s**tty situation man, I guess you'll know better next time though! Hard luck, good luck in your quest for salvation...or something <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by ben_j_davis on Tue Nov 1st at 12:05pm 2005

Well luckily things turned out ok, I think?

Last night I happened up a certain rival website (which i wont mention) which mentioned a fix. One of the site's owners offered a service to fix corrupted maps. I sent the file to him about 9:20 and at 11:20 he had fixed it and sent it back. I'm at work so I don't know what the extent of damage has been done. All that matters is the basic shell is intact. The scale and some of the architecture took very long to do. I'll let you know how it went 2moro. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by satchmo on Tue Nov 1st at 1:41pm 2005

Good luck to you man. I feel for you.

Something similar happened to me before, but the extent of the damage wasn't nearly as bad. I was working on my Justice map one morning, and when it was almost lunch time, the monitor just blacked out suddenly. The computer turned off too. It turned out to be a power outage in the city.

Usually, I save the map every five to ten minutes in Hammer, but that morning, I was so focused on putting those models in the map that I neglected to save anything. So I lost everything I did for about four hours.

Ever since that incident, I press Ctrl-S every five minutes. In addition, I save five or six copies of my map on different computers, directories, and disk drives. I even upload it up to various web storage services.

I hope everything works out for you, and I am looking forward to see the final product.



"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Nov 1st at 4:00pm 2005

Bummer man, losing work is never fun.

Glad you posted about it though, personally I'll look out for that in the future, and I'll be sure to backup my stuff out of the steam folders.

Let us know how it turns out.




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Posted by habboi on Tue Nov 1st at 4:11pm 2005

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I press Ctrl-S every five minutes.

Every five minutes!? Bloody norra...I save every time I add a brush or a model smiley





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Posted by satchmo on Tue Nov 1st at 4:32pm 2005

? quoting habboi
I save every time I add a brush or a model

And I thought I was obsessive-compulsive.




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Posted by pepper on Tue Nov 1st at 5:41pm 2005

You think that is obsessive? I have one model im working on with 50+ save files. I even save in save's when there is nothing to be saved from not saving.




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Posted by SpoolE on Tue Nov 1st at 6:09pm 2005

Eesh, 6 months work gone! Thats bad! Damb, after reading this Im gonna backup my maps on my FlashDisk like every day! Btw, I flash-disk is a very good way of transporting/backing up data.



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Posted by satchmo on Tue Nov 1st at 6:21pm 2005

It's just occurred to me that the title of this thread sounds like what Darth Vader said when he found out that he killed Padme.


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Posted by Crono on Tue Nov 1st at 7:04pm 2005

Ha ha.

http://vaderfortune.ytmnd.com/

That sucks. Glad you could recover it though. That is strange ... it shouldn't have done that unless it deletes all the local content when re-installing, which it didn't used to do.


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Posted by French Toast on Tue Nov 1st at 8:55pm 2005

I think Steam secretly dislikes you...

But that really sucks, I think you've made us all much more careful <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




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Posted by Crapceeper on Tue Nov 1st at 11:04pm 2005

? quote:
It's just occurred to me that the title of this thread sounds like what Darth Vader said when he found out that he killed Padme.


But he didn't. It was just made up so Darth Vader could become real evil.

This emperor is so selfish......



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Posted by satchmo on Tue Nov 1st at 11:48pm 2005

I know, but I wonder whether Anakin ever found out the truth about Padme's death.

Even though he didn't kill her, he indirectly killed her because he turned to the Dark Side. Padme didn't want to live after that.

She thought "My true love is now this ugly prick who works for this guy who is even uglier."




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Posted by French Toast on Tue Nov 1st at 11:52pm 2005

Or she thought "This movie is so s**tty and is going to drag on so much longer, I'll sacrifice myself to end the suffering of mankind"




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Posted by satchmo on Thu Nov 3rd at 4:59pm 2005

My wife suffered the same fate this morning, when she realized that she had overwritten her whole day's work yesterday by backing up the wrong folder.

She hasn't stopped screaming yet.




"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge



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Posted by French Toast on Thu Nov 3rd at 9:38pm 2005

I think I'd do the same...





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