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Beginner Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 22

My CMUD crashed and I saved it to a thumb drive and then deleted it. I downloaded the beta and tried to transfer but there is only an option for ZMUD. I have years of maps and one of my character passwords is only in the old CMUD version. How can I import the data?

Pained in Virginia!

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 12:28 am

What did you save to the thumb drive, and what did you delete?

Cmud stores your settings in .pkg files, maps in .dbm and .mdb files. If you saved all of those you should be able to retrieve your settings.

Beginner Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 22

I saved the entire thing to the thumb. When I load it on Vista (the new one) it creates a cmud file in the program directory and one in my docs/game directory. I can find some things and I was just playing with maps to see if I could open one in the new version from the thumb. It converts it but comes up blank. I really want my characters the most. The maps and most of my other characters I can import from an old zmud file but my newest character I don't have the password for.

What do I need to move? I tried copying a map (1 with all the associated dbms, baks and whatnot and when I go to open it, it does a bunch of conversions but comes up blank.

Beginner Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 11

There are also various 'undelete' programs available if you deleted it recently. I'd find a link but I'M on my mobile :/ sorry

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 1:48 am

Wherever you told the installer to put your CMUD data files (the second choice, where you choose from %Documents%, same as install, and custom) is where you'll find these files. You just need to point the new CMUD installation to the same folder, or copy those files to where the new CMUD installation expects them. It'll be a folder with the name of your session, containing a map file (.mdb), at least one package file (.pkg) and a few other files (.tbz and others). You need to copy that folder.

This won't create your sessions again - those are stored in sessions.db, which you can try pasting over the new one, but you'll probably get better results just creating a new session with the same name as the old one.

Beginner Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 22

Okay, I pasted session and session keys over the existing files in the new build. I got all my characters back and the autologin field shows a password being in the but the mud prompts me for a password which I didn't write down like an idiot. Can you think of any way I can restore that so it won't prompt me and allow me to log in automatically?

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:06 am

What about simply contacting the administrator of your mud and proving your identity to have them give you or reset your password?

Beginner Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 22

I have thought about that but I am trying everything else I can before I do that.
Cheers,
Draft

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:02 am

Try using the #pass command to send whatever password is associated with your session. If that's working but the autologin isn't, then the autologin triggers must've been removed or disabled somehow.