And it's gone!

Jayden

L1: Registered
Jul 28, 2010
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAKsMnAM8vk

I feel exactly like this. Hammer is the banker

Alright, wierdest glitch ever. I saved my current project/main map file, put it down, went off to work on the gametype prefab map to work the kinks out before putting into the main map.

Before I did close the map, I remember tinkering with entity gallery and report...I think I may have screwed something up royally

When I reopened the main map file...ALL the entity's and ALL the VisGroups I had were absolutely gone. Luckily I had a backup which saved about 80% of the entity's but this is a major setback. Anyone have a guess as to what I did wrong or (praise be to you if so) any way I can reclaim my lost work?

Thanks
 

Jetti

L5: Dapper Member
May 2, 2010
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The same happened to me yesterday. Try looking in the Autosaves folder (C:\HammerAutosaves)
 

Jayden

L1: Registered
Jul 28, 2010
42
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AND IT'S BACK!

The most recent autosave (mymapname_005.vmf) contains just about everything I needed. You are a true bro Jetti.

For reference, my autsave folder wasn't in C:/HammerAutosaves. Rather I found it by going to Hammer > Tools > General > Autosave Directory. Hope this helps someone else in the future