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HELP! Corrupted Map File

06-18-2009, 01:45 AM#1
DracoSage
So i was making this map that i had been working very hard on, the only thing i had left to do was put down some rects and make a few simple triggers. I place a large 5x5 large square (in large grid view) rect and put thick red dungeon fog on it as a weather effect. I decided it didn't look very good and switched it to heavy ashenvale rain, but the red fog stayed even though it supposedly no longer existed and it was raining. I deleted the rect, and the fog remained. I hit "undo" until the rect had never been created, and the red fog remained. I saved it from there to see if rebooting the editor would help. It saved just fine and is still playable in wc3, but when i when i had the editor back up the file couldn't open and the editor crashed.

I have Vista. When it crashes with WEU 1.20 + NewGen pack, it says worldedit121.exe has stopped working. I have never seen this file before and when i delete it, it is recreated upon opening the editor like this. When the normal editor crashes, it says the usual worldedit.exe has stopped working. Other maps open just fine, so it's not just an editor problem.

Can this be fixed? It seems like a random simple error. Losing that map file would seriously, seriously suck...
06-18-2009, 01:56 AM#2
Michael Peppers
THAT's strange. However, NewGen makes a backup of the map you're working on everytime you save it. Just check the "Backup" folder and you'll find the last openable version of the map (the one before you created the rect should be there). I know no other ways to help you.
06-18-2009, 02:10 AM#3
Bobo_The_Kodo
Can you pm me it and tell me what the rect name was, I could probably fix it
06-18-2009, 05:11 AM#4
DracoSage
I'm assuming that you will go into the text files and find the bug there, displaying the existence of the red fog and rect there but not in the map thus creating a conflict, right?

That's great, but i can't find the attachment button when composing a pm, but i can when posting. Do you have to be buddy listed for that? Sorry i usually do a lot more looking around here than participating lol. If so, which i think so, i'm already adding you.
06-27-2009, 06:56 AM#5
bboy-tiger-
Try to open map with mpq, that way you can save some data, or whole map. dunno. And dont use WEU.