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Newbie Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 1 Location: USA

Hiya, I have a small problem with 7.01 and I was wondering if anybody might be able to help me.

Well actually it's quite a large problem. I just upgraded from version 6.62, and the first time I ran 7.01 it worked just fine. I got my main character up and running with the settings working, and it all seemed hunki-dori. All the triggers, macros and color changes worked. But when I started 7.01 for the second time, and opened my character... I found Zmud had not only taken upon itself to delete all color changes, triggers, macros, and my font; But when I tried to reload a backup settings file, it did absolutely nothing.

This is quite disheartening as you might imagine, losing 4-5 years worth of work in tweaking settings and adding trigs and stuff.

Any advice? I'm pretty close to just considering 7.01 a waste of time and trying to find 6.62 again somewhere.

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

Could be a corrupted Layout file? Edit your char settings and uncheck use layout make sure the correct subfolder and primary file are selected see if that works. If I does Save your layout file and go from there

Newbie Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 1 Location: USA

I also had this -exact- problem. First session was great, and I was glad...have had bad luck trying betas, was very happy with a public release. Today, it just said the file was corrupted, and won't do anything. Tried with backup files, nothing. The layout button is not checked, tried that. Folders and files are all right. But there's nothing there anymore...very very sad...

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Check the character record to see if you still have the correct entries on the File tab, especially SubFolder and Primary.

Also check the FAQ in the Support Library (Support link above) for the Corrupted Settings procedures.

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:14 pm

zMUD *never* deletes any of your settings file. So I'm not sure what you mean by "theres nothing there anymore".

If you are using the AutoSave preference, then your settings are saved when you exit zMUD automatically and if there was an access violation while running zMUD that could have corrupted memory, then it can end up saving a corrupted settings file, which is why it always makes a backup.

Layout files are completely different from settings files, so there is no way a layout can cause the settings to get messed up.

This is definitely unfortunate, but if you had 4-5 years of work and had never made a backup, then that's a lesson. You should ALWAYS make backups of your files, especially whenever upgrading or installing software.

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:15 pm

Btw, if you still have one of the *.MUD files that says it's corrupted, you can email it to me and I'll check to see how it got corrupted. It might give us a clue how to prevent this from happening to others.

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

Zugg I reported it as a bug a loooong time ago :P but someone said it wasn't

create 2 chars give them both the same subfolder and differant primary files have them both use the SAME layout

Open one char save layout exit open other char and settings are not loaded even though they are defined