AAAAAAAAA - NOOOOOOOOOOOO

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.

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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Never try to be perfect - just try it and make the best out of it

s**tty situation man, I guess you'll know better next time though! Hard
luck, good luck in your quest for salvation...or something :smile:

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Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net

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. :smile:

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Glu Mobile

QA Tech

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.

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

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.

I press Ctrl-S every five minutes.

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

habboi said:
I save every time I add a brush or a model

And I thought I was obsessive-compulsive.

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

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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pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

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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I would love to change the world, But they would'nt give me the source code.

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

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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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

I think Steam secretly dislikes you...

But that really sucks, I think you've made us all much more careful :biggrin:

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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Never try to be perfect - just try it and make the best out of it

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

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"

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.

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

I think I'd do the same...