Zugg Software :: View topic - maps: index not found =|

Beginner Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Posts: 12

Folks, what's the answer to retrieving maps that I can't open with an "error, index not found" alert box? The curious thing is that they open fine in zmapper. Even if I then make a backup, that backup won't open in zmud either =|

Anyone?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

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Folks, what's the answer to retrieving maps that I can't open with an "error, index not found" alert box? The curious thing is that they open fine in zmapper. Even if I then make a backup, that backup won't open in zmud either =|

Anyone?

You need an upgrade, or at least try running the zsconvert utility (which might not do anything useful for you).

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

AFAIK, Nass is running a very recent version of zMUD if not the latest. So I'm guessing that the maps he is referring to were created with the new zMUD database format... and thus wouldn't really be amenable to conversion with zsConvert.

So, in short, I don't believe upgrading will fix this. I'm not sure if the answer lies in an actual database index that is not present or in the values in VersTbl (which form an index of sorts, at least telling which number should be filled next in each database). I'm suspecting the latter...

It might be possible to mess around with the table in Access... if it helps, one map I have (working under 6.62) has a VersTbl that looks like:

VersId	VersNum	IconID	MetaID	DrawID	KindID	FavID	ZoneID	ObjID	ExitKindID	NoteID	StyleID	ExitID	DirID


1	30	2	18	20	1	1	53	16685		3	16	1	43580	11

If none of that helps, I am fairly close to releasing a ZoneCopy utility which can copy zones from one map to another (and therefore get all the zones from the old map database which zMUD can't open and copy them to a new map database). I've just been quite busy recently.

- Charbal