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Lasivian
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:44 am   

Characters missing. Chardb.db being overwritten when I load zmud.
 
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?

Thanks.
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Lasivian
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:49 am   
 
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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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:51 am   
 
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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PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:15 am   
 
Anything?
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Lasivian
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:18 pm   
 
I guess i'm screwed
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Lasivian
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:11 am   
 
No suggestions or information to be had?
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shalimar
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:58 am   
 
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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PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:27 pm   
 
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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PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:53 pm   
 
Install it in C:\zMUD instead of C:\Program Files\zMUD
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Lasivian
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:18 pm   
 
Taz wrote:
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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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:50 pm   
 
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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