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OMG! I WAS MAKING AN N-ART OF A CYNDAQUIL, THEN AS I WAS ABOUT TO SAVE THE DATA, AN ERROR MESDSAGE COMES UP, AND THEN N V.1.4 CLOSES ITSELF! anyway as you can immagine this annoyed me, but i remembered that i saved it earlier, so i wasnt that annoyed. but when i go to load it agin, it goes weird and uncomplete. which has REALLY TICKED ME OFF!! so now im just gonna sleep on it and hope im not as annoyed so i can fix it.

thanks for reading this, and if you want, post whats really on your mind now!

"Yeah, but the chandelier in the bathroom seems extremely unnecessary." Strangely, that's the first thing that came to mind when you told me to post what's on my mind.

That sucks man. I've always been afraid of that happening. Especially when using NReality. You never know when the, "your flash player may have been at an abnormal speed" message is going to come.

This is why you frequently copypasta your data onto Notepad (or whichever text editor you use) to prevent this problem. Sorry to hear you lost your data, but you should try doing that next time. An extra precaution is always beneficiary.

The thing that's on my mind is:
Get over it, and just make a better one.

If you did have a previously saved data, check to see if there's something you did, I mean it's kinda hard with the raw N data, but you might be able to find some weird things, and maybe NaN's here and there that are causing you problems.

Twistkill is right, even on normal maps, not just N-Arts, you should copy&paste.
And it shouldn't be a problem for you, if you just copy&paste after you complete small sections.
Good luck restarting/fixing you data..

Wow, this brings back some definite painful memories with N...

That's nothing. I was once working on a DDA for three years. It would have cured cancer and certain varieties of HPV (Hippie Problem Virus).

Really, though, sorry about your loss. :_(

meh that happens all the time with N-arts, and if you worked forever on it wouldn't you have a backup, or you would have just have worked on it for a few hours at the most.

I've lost my data more than I can count. Move on, or try again.

I used to save an N-art that I had been making for 3 days, then realized I couldn't be bothered to submit it. I've gotten rid of the data, and I don't care for submitting it to NUMA, cos I liked it but I didn't think others would.

Move on, save data, or try again.

Evil_Sire wrote:I've lost my data more than I can count. Move on, or try again.

I used to save an N-art that I had been making for 3 days, then realized I couldn't be bothered to submit it. I've gotten rid of the data, and I don't care for submitting it to NUMA, cos I liked it but I didn't think others would.

Move on, save data, or try again.

That is completely different to what delta is saying. You voluntarily deleted the level, he lost it through no fault of his own (unless you count failing to back up data a fault). It really sucks to loose a level you have been working on for hours because of a stupid error message or the dreaded tab-q.

I think I just made him angrier by that "rate the siggy" inferno.

But make that a lesson to learn next time, back up your data.

hehe, i once made my best race ever, no joke. It was like a dream. As i ran through it one last time incase of any glitches etc, i hit tab+q at the same time... (because i play with wad my hand is always over there)

Well, i hadnt backed up the data anywhere, or anything. So it was gone. And it still is. I remember sitting there staring at my screen for about ten minutes before i dared to move again.

Man, thats happened to me a couple of times before.

Whats on my mind now, huh? I got the easiest question on my test wrong in Grade 7.

(sorry for the really late reply)

to all who thought i didnt have back-up data:
i did. two lots to be precise, and evrytime i did a little bit more, i saved it, but for some reason, my computer f#@$ed up, and the data went weird, with objects out the map, and most of the objects not actually there!

thanks anyway guys :)

deltainferno wrote:(sorry for the really late reply)

to all who thought i didnt have back-up data:
i did. two lots to be precise, and evrytime i did a little bit more, i saved it, but for some reason, my computer f#@$ed up, and the data went weird, with objects out the map, and most of the objects not actually there!

thanks anyway guys :)

You should memorize the map. You next time then, you will remember where everything belongs.

"The program crashed and my data wasn't saved!" stories are always painful.

My condolences. It happens to the best of us.

i've ruined 70+ maps just with Tab + Q. I treat making maps like playing an intense FPS.

PALEMOON, change your boss mode key in configure.

Mine is f12, because It'd be hard to hit that and q in succession.

(I have done it once, and thought it was pretty funny, and forgot how good the map was that was just lost.)

Blackson wrote:
Mine is f12, because It'd be hard to hit that and q in succession.

(I have done it once, and thought it was pretty funny, and forgot how good the map was that was just lost.)

Shame on you. Cerebral Palsy is never funny

This had once happened with a song I was writing. Luckily, I had it memorized. I've also lost a couple of maps this way. Actually, I've lost one or two pretty awesome ones, and I just sat there staring blankly at the screen. I don't even remember what they were like now.

Anyway, I agree w/ most everyone here - keep a copy of the data in a .txt, .doc, .docx, or whatever you use. And make sure to click out of the box before you press 'L' or 'E.' 'Cause that might've been the problem, too, if you were doing that. If not, then shut me up.