WERE DID MY MAP GO!

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I was editing my map, I selected 5 brushes, some with and without editing. (Meaning some were triangular for ramps)
I went into the texture selctor to change their texture, and when I selected the texture, MY ENTIRE EFFING MAP WAS GONE! NOTHING, NOT EVEN A CRASH, 0 PROPS 0 ENTITIES 0 BRUSHES! I saved hoping it was a crash as that what I would usually do, and immedietly closed hammer hoping to see the auto save file popup.
I DID NOT, I reopened the map hoping nothing was wrong, and ITS A BLANK FILE NOW!
How the f*** do I undo this.
Sorry for the foul language, but this would piss of anyone.
 

Crash

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Yup. Welcome to Hammer.

This type of thing happens sometimes. Keeping good autosaves (I personally reduce mine to every 3 minutes) and saving manually often helps a lot. Keeping a few recent iterations doesn't hurt, too.

I've had to recover full RC maps that have done that. THAT is scary.
 

Kube

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Crash, you're one to speak.
 

Snowbat

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I make maps like I type letters: I hit Ctrl+S like I would hit the trigger of a pistol when firing at something that needs to die multiple times.
 

worMatty

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Try not to have a high autosave frequency, as it can cause problem when you are editing entities. Sometimes I find that my input is reverted, if I am editing an entity as the autosave happens. If you have a slow PC, then a very frequent autosave might cause you performance loss. Get in to the habit of hitting Ctrl+S whenever you do something significant.

So you know, the .VMX file in the same directory as your .VMF is a clone of your last save. When you restart Hammer and it asks you if you would like to open your previous autosave, it's usually best to go along with that but if that does not work you always have the .VMX option.

I wouldn't be surprised if your 60s autosave had a hand in your map file corrupting. I tried that a while back but decided against it because it caused problems, though I can't remember the details now.