I was working on my map when my mouse decided to gay out on me. I rebooted and when I opened my map in X-tra (I like x-tra's trigger editor interface better, sorry) it acted as if it was protected. Weird, I thought. I opened it in SCMDraft and it said one of the strings were messed up (the location I couldn't place right because of my mouse) No biggie, so I went to it and deleted it. It still wouldn't open in X-tra so I went through the strings and deleted the old location name for it too.

It still won't open anywhere other than SCMDraft. It works perfectly fine when I host it though, this is really weird. I've tried "unprotecting it" with OSMAP too but it completely messes up to where I can't even open it with SCMDraft.

Does anyone know what the hell is going on?

I think something about that location made it screw up, I opened a backup and it crashes when I go near that area.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Sep 9 2008, 12:49 am by ColdFusion.

Try opening it up in SCM and deleting that location if you think that's the problem.

I get the exact same problem when i try to use scmdraft's text trigger editor and compile it, it just corrupts my strings. Also, ive also had experience with editor incompatability between xtra scmd, so I suggest you don't use both on the same file.

As for saving your file, does xtra create a backup databse, or a backup file like starforge and scmd? I seriously doubt you'll fix your problem, so I suggest you switch editor's if this happens again OR you start making backup files moar often.

It seems like a ton of people have problems in scmdraft but me.

"No biggie, so I went to it and deleted it. It still wouldn't open in X-tra so I went through the strings and deleted the old location name for it too.

It still won't open anywhere other than SCMDraft."

Sorry, guess I wasn't thinking properly when I read it, have you tried an older backup?

For your own good, don't create topics with stupid names.

About the problem:
Switching back and forth between editors is just asking for trouble. Going from an older editor to a newer one (Staredit, Xtra to Starforge, ScmDraft) should work fine, but avoid other switchings.

So when an error occurs, open it in one of the newer editors (and possibly (un-)protectors, like the Unused Unprotector or Uber@tion 2), try to save it and check if it solved your problem.

If that didn't help you probably won't be able to fix it, so you should open a backup file.
If you don't make backups one of your testers may have an older version. If not, then I hope you learned your lesson and make backups from now on.

Eh, I've seen topic titles that are much worse.

Those pesky strings are the reason I've given up on SC mapping. It's like playing Russian roulette with hours of work.

At first the Topic was named "Help!".

It's not that bad. I've never lost more than a few minutes of work thanks to ScmDrafts Backup database. And it's not like it happens every day. I think I had a corruption now 4-5 times in all the years of mapping.

Yeah, I've got my autosave at like every 5 minutes, the backup feature is very handy.