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Lasivian
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Joined: 25 Jan 2002
Posts: 76
Location: USA
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 Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:44 am
Characters missing. Chardb.db being overwritten when I load zmud.
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Suddenly all my characters are gone.
I still have the chardb.db I was using, but when I start zmud it overwrites it with a blank one containing just the muds and toons it came with originally.
I tried a fresh install and copied over my old chardb.db and the same thing happened.
Any suggestions?
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Lasivian
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Posts: 76
Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:49 am
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Is there any chance there is some security built into zmud? I replaced the motherboard on this machine, that's when this started happening.
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Lasivian
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Posts: 76
Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:51 am
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Also in preferences it wants "Mudchar.dat", but when I look inside chardb.db it's clear that all my character information is in that file in sql 2.1 format.
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Lasivian
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:15 am
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Anything?
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Lasivian
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:18 pm
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I guess i'm screwed
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Lasivian
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:11 am
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No suggestions or information to be had?
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shalimar
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Location: Pensacola, FL, USA
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:58 am
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Did you do a clean uninstall before reinstalling? Maybe there is something left in the registry that is causing issues.
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Lasivian
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:27 pm
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I have tried a clean reinstall on the same system, and a clean install on another system that never had zmud on it before. Same results.
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Taz
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Joined: 28 Sep 2000
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Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:53 pm
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Install it in C:\zMUD instead of C:\Program Files\zMUD
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Lasivian
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:18 pm
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| Install it in C:\zMUD instead of C:\Program Files\zMUD |
I tried that as well, the problem persists.
Does anyone know if there is a way to extract my data from the chardb file? |
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MattLofton
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:50 pm
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It's an ADO database file, if I recall. If MS Access can't open it or if it can't show you the data, the file's fubared.
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