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Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 9

I was working on mapper and clicked something outside of the mapper window. It closed my main session screen (Capture window, status window, and mapper still open). I restarted program, thinking my layout was saved so it should fix on restart. No luck, it looked the same as when I shut down. I unanchored the mapper and status window, no change (thinking it might have been hidden underneath). I closed the capture window by clicking on the 'x' in upper right hand corner. CMUD exited when I did this. When I reopened CMUD and choose my MUD, everything looked fine again (main window, status window, and mapper. No Capture window, but I expected that since it autocreates when something goes to it). My MUD did NOT autolog on. I started looking at my settings and they are all gone. All of the Classes and subclasses are there but every single one is empty of everything.

Any hope of recovering my settings/data? I have more hours than I care to admit in customizing triggers, aliases, variables, etc...

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:26 pm

open settings editor
select window
advanced tab
check window is visible

Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 9

Sorry, but I do not understand that.

Normally to view/edit my settings I go to
- View
- All Settings

The only 'editor' I know of (and I've never used it) is under:
- Window
- Editor

I cannot see an "advanced" tab in either area. I'm sure I'm not going to the area your referring to. Could you be point me in the right direction?

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

I believe he means the Package Editor. However, he was telling you how to get a missing window to display again, which is not actually your current problem.

Are you saying that you can't see any triggers, aliases, variables, or classes in the Package Editor? It could simply be that your view is currently filtering them. I'm not at a machine with Cmud right now, but I believe in the Package Editor along the top is a View menu. Click that, and find the option in the menue to View All.

Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 9

Not filtering any of them (I've done that before). They are gone, but the classes remain. Even the autologin triggers are gone, I have to log into the MUD by actually typing *Gasp*. The package file is still there, but maybe corrupted?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Two things:

1)a corrupted package can make stuff disappear like you describe. Try sending your packages through the XML export process. IF they were corrupted, this would fix that (keep in mind that the source of the problem might not be the package files themselves, so they might just recorrupt as the still-broken datafiles are referenced).

2)It sounds like you clicked the red X button that closes all of CMud. This can be both a good and a bad thing, because it just immediately exits rather than doing all the save-stuff a proper closure does (the X button works moreorless the same as a task manager force-quit). If CMud happens to be in the middle of an automatic save, the data might not get written correctly and you end up with corrupt or even outright-deleted settings. This would be the bad part, and if the XML file from 1) really is empty then without backups for you to fall back to you are completely out of luck. The file is actually empty, or at least so far gone that no other application that can read SQLite database files will be able to work with it. Perhaps you could open up the file in Notepad and copy out any recognizable bits and pieces you see, but most if not all of the file is going to be complete gibberish so don't expect much of anything.

Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 9

I exported everything through XML to a different filename. Renamed package file, so it would recreate a new one. Tried importing the XML file and got an error. Opened it in notepad and well, looks like it's gone. There was only half a page of data in that file. I had hundreds of aliases, variables, & triggers (each). game over. Sad

edit: But when I open the original package file in wordpad, I can see all my missing data. Which I guess is kinda useful to retrieve all my of variable list information (which has been gathered and stored from in-game activity).