Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 I don't even know how this happened, but my outdoors and towns all went nuts. Here's an example: Click to reveal.. Before: After: Can someone please, please, please tell me if I can bring it back to how it was before...that? BTW: How ya'll fancy the island to my first scenario? (I'm talkin' 'bout the first one) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Ouch, looks like you got corrupted. I don't think there's any way to fix it...you may have to re-do the terrain (or maybe mothball the entire thing and start anew). If you have a backup, revert. Otherwise, I'd recommend frequent backups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted October 11, 2011 Author Share Posted October 11, 2011 Drat, I was afraid of that. Thank you for your reply, Mr. Bird. I'll try to extract all I can from this to a new one. Originally Posted By: Dainty Us Edit Reason: If possible, could you tell us what you did that caused this? That way we can find whatever pesky bug causes this... I don't believe I did anything myself to cause this, I'll look into it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Prince of Kitties Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Are you using Wine on Linux? Did you perform an improper shutdown at some point? Because some filesystems may append garbage to open files when that happens. IIRC ReiserFS is known for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted October 12, 2011 Author Share Posted October 12, 2011 Originally Posted By: Miramor Are you using Wine on Linux? Probably not, I've never used Wine or Linux. Originally Posted By: Miramor Did you perform an improper shutdown at some point? Because some filesystems may append garbage to open files when that happens. Does it count if the power went out while I was playing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast *i Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Usually, a power outage shouldn't destroy a file unless it is in the process of actively being read or (much more likely) written to at the time of abrupt shutdown. I say usually, but remember computers are complex physical machines and are not immune to unpredictable failures that can be caused by a power surge, stray cosmic ray, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Prince of Kitties Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Originally Posted By: Karoka Does it count if the power went out while I was playing? Probably. Some journaling filesysems (most notably JFS) are really bad at dealing with power outages, and will do things like wiping all the data from files that are being read at the time. I'm not sure where NTFS lies, but it sounds like it may have similar issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Tonweya Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 FWIW: I live in a pretty rural area with miles of trees along the roads. We get outages quite often. Even though most are intermittent, any outage is loss of data. I have an external HD running and have set my internal backup at 15 minutes. I don't feel that what I do cannot be done over, but I try to keep the volume to a minimum. If you seriously don't want to deal with an outage, you could purchase an Uninterruptable Power Supply. It doesn't need to be expensive. Use it for your Computer only and it shouldn't take up much space either. me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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