Warspite2
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Title is correct, all 12 of my projects were deleted. I went to delete asset cache and delete ide cache, I have used this in the past without issues. I went to save my current project but selected the yyc file of the game by mistake. I don't believe it saved or done anything. Then I put in the actual name of the project normally and saved as normal nothing else happened so then I ressumed working. Then I was in the middle of the project working in the IDE as I normally do then all of a sudden a window came up which said my project will be deleted. It was my current projects name and all I could do is close that window which I did. Then gms2 closes and reloads then no recent projects were listed. So I closed gms2 and reopened it again, still no recent projects. So then I looked in the folders of all my projects in the gms2 folder under documents where all the projects save. There I was greeted with one of the most horrific feelings ever as a developer, I seen every last project folder only had either a sprite and/or extension folder and looking further they were empty, all of them!
Please tell me there is a backup folder somewhere? I am certainly not finding it and at this point I am terrified and praying I have recent backups of my main games. In my 3 decades of using software I have never seen anything like this before. I'm ok with loosing my current project because I normally keep backups of a current project. Why on earth did it literally delete every last one of my other projects?? None of those were even open, some not opened for months. It's like it deleted the projects instead of the ide and asset cache. I am going to look more but folks I am afraid this is real. Seems like a freak odd thing that may have never happened to anyone? I just got my hellish scare for halloween and its looking like there is no way to recover it. I am going to do a windows restore to an earlier time and see if I can get all these projects back but that is a long shot. The recycle bin of course there is nothing in there either. Anyone ever heard of something like this? I have never had anything like this happen with gms1.4 nor gms2.
This was IDE 2.2.0.343 and runtime 2.2.0.258
Edit: Woot! Thankfully using Windows previous versions saved me here, by right clicking inside the folder and selecting the previous versions tab at top. I seen all of my projects there to restore back and felt like having a celebration right then and there. I will stress to others be extremely careful with using delete asset cache and delete ide cache. I noticed when I used it in the past, it don't actually notify you if it is done or not. So I am thinking what happened here is it may have still been deleting and when I saved my current project in the projects folder it possibly switched to that directory and caused everything to be deleted. Now I am creating my own backup folder and will save two copies of my projects from now own after this scare. Again, use those options with extreme caution or not at all. I need to sign off after this, I am darn near traumatized.
Please tell me there is a backup folder somewhere? I am certainly not finding it and at this point I am terrified and praying I have recent backups of my main games. In my 3 decades of using software I have never seen anything like this before. I'm ok with loosing my current project because I normally keep backups of a current project. Why on earth did it literally delete every last one of my other projects?? None of those were even open, some not opened for months. It's like it deleted the projects instead of the ide and asset cache. I am going to look more but folks I am afraid this is real. Seems like a freak odd thing that may have never happened to anyone? I just got my hellish scare for halloween and its looking like there is no way to recover it. I am going to do a windows restore to an earlier time and see if I can get all these projects back but that is a long shot. The recycle bin of course there is nothing in there either. Anyone ever heard of something like this? I have never had anything like this happen with gms1.4 nor gms2.
This was IDE 2.2.0.343 and runtime 2.2.0.258
Edit: Woot! Thankfully using Windows previous versions saved me here, by right clicking inside the folder and selecting the previous versions tab at top. I seen all of my projects there to restore back and felt like having a celebration right then and there. I will stress to others be extremely careful with using delete asset cache and delete ide cache. I noticed when I used it in the past, it don't actually notify you if it is done or not. So I am thinking what happened here is it may have still been deleting and when I saved my current project in the projects folder it possibly switched to that directory and caused everything to be deleted. Now I am creating my own backup folder and will save two copies of my projects from now own after this scare. Again, use those options with extreme caution or not at all. I need to sign off after this, I am darn near traumatized.
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