Yeah scm draft was saving my maps in some strange file location that was pretty much an exact replica of my "program files" But doesn't serve much of any function,
and is burried deep within some strange place in my computer.

I guess scm draft got confused, mixed one file location for another, started saving the maps over there. Weird.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jun 25 2015, 7:23 pm by zsnakezz.

You could simply be in the wrong folder. Double-check the location to your map, both in Windows Explorer and in-game to make sure it's the correct location.

In Single Player, there is a limit to the number of maps you can see in a single folder (it's probably close to 100), but on Battle.net, there is no limit of which I am aware.

Verify that if the map is a .scx map that you are accessing Brood War and not vanilla SC, as regular SC will only show .scm maps.

I have deduced I am probably experiencing hard drive failure.

What is the full path to where you are saving the file in the editor?

You can use a program like SpeedFan to do a test on your hard drive health.

This sounds unlikely. If the harddrive was unresponsive to writes you should get an error stating so and other things should fall apart as well.
Have you tried saving a few characters in a text file to a non-system folder? (e.g. C:\Snakes\test.txt)

It sounds like Windows' virtualization of system folders is playing tricks on you. Copy your starcraft folder to a non-system folder (e.g. C:\Starcraft) when it's inside a system folder like C:\Program Files\Starcraft.

Another common cause for this behavior is that you're tabbing out to the editor to fix the bug you encountered, save the map, tab back, and then restart your map. Starcraft won't let you save a new version of a map while you're still in the game. Exit it before you save the changes in the editor.

welp it appears i can't save any maps at all. tried a few, none of them showed up in starcraft.

Do they show up in your file system?

Be sure you're saving them somewhere inside your StarCraft\Maps\ folder. Remember that Brood War defaults to the StarCraft\Maps\BroodWar\ folder in Bnet, so if you're saving it to Maps, you'll need to go up one level.

Try doing this and see if it solves the issue:

1) Save a backup of your maps on a flash drive or something
2) Reinstall SC to C:\Games\StarCraft\
3) If necessary, change ScmDraft's SC path (found in the profile settings when starting it up) to C:\Games\StarCraft\
4) Move your backed-up maps to C:\Games\StarCraft\Maps\ (or some subdirectory within it)

I don't need to back up any maps, all the latest versions of anything that I've been working on are already on here. Havn't been able to touch my work this entire week.

I can save my map.

Told you so:
Older programs tend to have problems with that feature because they didn't know it would exist some day. Safest way is to avoid protected folders. Running as admin might work too.