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General => Electronic and Computer Section => Topic started by: Valdred on May 08, 2010, 03:03:27 pm

Title: Is it possible to undo an overwrite?
Post by: Valdred on May 08, 2010, 03:03:27 pm
I accidentally overwrote the scripts.rxdata of my game and now several months of coding is lost  :'(
I tried right-click > undo moving. Somehow it didn't work. I have run undelete, doesn't work as nothing is deleted, just overwritten. Damn, do anyone know a way I can restore it?
Title: Re: Is it possible to undo an overwrite?
Post by: Blizzard on May 08, 2010, 03:21:50 pm
Not really. Do you have an older backup by any chance? When I used to work on my game, I made a backup of the whole project each time I was done for the day and I usually kept a few backups backwards including a few backups that were several months old.
Title: Re: Is it possible to undo an overwrite?
Post by: Valdred on May 08, 2010, 04:30:10 pm
As i am a dumb motherfucker I do not have one,  :(
Hopefully, writing it again will make it better than it originally would.
Title: Re: Is it possible to undo an overwrite?
Post by: Subsonic_Noise on May 08, 2010, 04:47:28 pm
I backup my game every few weeks into an encrypted, password secured 7zip archieve, which I then copy to be even more save. I'm that awesome.
You should do something like that, too. But probably not as extreme.
Title: Re: Is it possible to undo an overwrite?
Post by: Spaceman McConaughey on May 08, 2010, 07:37:57 pm
Quote from: Valdred on May 08, 2010, 03:03:27 pm
I accidentally overwrote the scripts.rxdata of my game and now several months of coding is lost  :'(
I tried right-click > undo moving. Somehow it didn't work. I have run undelete, doesn't work as nothing is deleted, just overwritten. Damn, do anyone know a way I can restore it?


Consider yourself lucky, Valdred. I lost ALL of my game. Graphics, events, maps... everything that it's made out of. Gone. :P
Title: Re: Is it possible to undo an overwrite?
Post by: Valdred on May 09, 2010, 04:27:37 am
 :'(

Did you keep working on it?
Title: Re: Is it possible to undo an overwrite?
Post by: Spaceman McConaughey on May 09, 2010, 07:08:57 am
Quote from: Valdred on May 09, 2010, 04:27:37 am
:'(

Did you keep working on it?


It pissed me off so much, and made me lose so much motivation... I don't even think I want to use RMXP again. At least, not with the same game. Meh, I'm going to be working on a game with Game_Guy, anyways.