StuartK
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File: drodb42dats.rar (337.2 KB)
Downloaded 44 times.
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I had installed build 42, imported my build 34 .player, and had played with it a bit. I was just messing with Dugan, and I believe I'd imported a few holds (just a few) and created that level 8 demo as per the demo bugs thread (so nothing much) I'd also tentatively started playing through Dugan again, to get working demos for all the pre-build38 broken rooms (plus I'm getting a kick out of completing rooms efficiently at the moment) I don't think I'd done anything with the editor with this build - certainly not anything important enough to remember. All fairly innocuous.

Just now, when starting this instance of DROD, I'm prompted to import a new player again. Some corruption going on there. I just quit straight back out and WinRARed up the .dats

I had left DROD running in the background while I was doing a bunch of other stuff, but didn't see any problems when exiting - just when I started again. And I'm kicking myself for not having set up my batch file to make backup dats. Any other info (hardware, software running) on request, if it's necessary.

[Edited by StuartK on 09-12-2003 at 04:06 AM]

mrimer
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This time it's the player file that's corrupted. It's displaying the same symptoms in the binary data that we saw before in the corrupted text.dat files.

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Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

mrimer
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Question to everyone that's had their .dat files corrupted: do you remember being able to get two instances of DROD running at the same time?

[Edited by mrimer on 09-12-2003 at 06:36 PM]

____________________________
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

Oneiromancer
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I think I may have tried to do that at least once, actually...but I don't think it worked, or caused any corruption. For example, when my Build 40 text.dat was corrupted, I tried to open two instances of DROD so I could see what the text should by while I exported my player. But it wouldn't let me, and I haven't had any corruption since.

Game on,

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"He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder." -- Tad Williams

StuartK
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mrimer wrote:
Question to everyone that's had their .dat files corrupted: do you remember being able to get two instances of DROD running at the same time?

[Edited by mrimer on 09-12-2003 at 06:36 PM]

I'm pretty sure I didn't, but my taskbar does get crowded... I have double clicked on the DROD link, and had the already running task brought to the foreground with this build.