krammer
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Came back to my computer this evening, checked the forum, then loaded up DROD. Pressed Continue and DROD crashed. Investigating, on choosing "Where" I found that the list of holds was completely empty, obviously explaining the crash - there was nowhere to Continue from!

How this happened, I have absolutely no idea. As I have now last all progress in everything as well as Dugan's Dungeon itself I am feeling a little irritated...

Drod.err has the following (not sure how much is new):
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 506 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibDbDemos.cpp.
Assertion error in line 134 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibGoblin.cpp.
Assertion error in line 134 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibGoblin.cpp.
Assertion error in line 134 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibGoblin.cpp.

Edit: Importing any hold now causes DROD to crash. I have lost the possibility of doing anything whatsoever in this installation.

[Edited by krammer on 07-18-2003 at 09:37 PM]

Edit number 2: I exported my player to be on the safe side, now starting DROD assumes I haven't run it before and asks me for a name or to import a player. Either process causes a crash to desktop.
drod.err has not changed since I posted the above.

[Edited by krammer on 07-18-2003 at 09:40 PM]

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krammer wrote:
Assertion error in line 134 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibGoblin.cpp.
Assertion error in line 134 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibGoblin.cpp.
Assertion error in line 134 of D:dataDROD CVSRootCaravelDRODLibGoblin.cpp.

I got these errors when playing 1W of Johns World, attempting to get a goblin in with the snake near the middle of the screen. The goblin steps on a force arrow, and it's got no place to move that it likes, it seems like

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That really sucks, krammer. I can't do anything to help, really, but I think everyone else needs to make sure that they have a backup of their files from their original DROD installation. Before installing any beta files, I copied my DROD folder to a new location, and I used a new folder for each successive DROD beta installation. Whenever any program is in beta, you can't be too careful.

I am sure that Dugan's can be restored through a player file donation, so hopefully this won't be too big of a loss.

Game on,

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krammer
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Well, I know what I'll do. I'm deleting every beta file, then will install the next build from scratch and update from 1.5 so I have all DD save games. Then I will get to the tedious point of replaying all the player holds. Maybe.

Anyway, I have an exported version of my own hold, so that's not too big a deal. I think I'm going to export every time i quit from now on.

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Just to make sure everyone understands this: you cannot use the .dat files from an older build with a newer build! (That is because we change/fix things in the data each build, and is the reason why the DROD installer overwrites the data files.) With each new build, you must start from scratch, export everything you had in the older build and re-import it into the newer build. Use older .dat files at your own peril!

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krammer
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Erm - I wasn't going to.

But thanks for the warning anyway.

Edit: Oh... that didn't cause the problem. I've been using the full install for the past few builds anyway, not the upgrade. I don't keep old data files, just exported players and holds.

[Edited by krammer on 07-20-2003 at 01:11 PM]

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