rushl23
May 17th, 2007, 18:46
So, there I was - working on my campaign - putting in every NPC and monster and whatnot. I'd been at it for several hours, actually. Then FG crashed! It had crashed several times already, so I didn't think much about it. But when I reloaded nothing was there! It was all gone.
It said something about a db.xml backup, and so I looked all over for it. I found one, but it didn't have anything in it either. Needless to say, I was irritated, so I quit for the night.
Today I was going to get back at it, but before I did I wanted to find a way to be /sure/ - *sure* - that what I had done was saved. I'd got the "Campaign saved" message a hundred times before, and ended up with nada. So, I want a way to save the gamestate FOR SURE. The catch is, I want to do it while FG is running, so I don't have to close and reload every 5 minutes. I tried making a copy of db.xml while FG was running (and even db.backup.xml) but apparently while FG is running it's all in RAM - I never could find the changes I'd made.
I also waited until I'd gotten a "Campaign Saved" message - and still I couldn't make a copy of a file that had /actually/ saved anything.
So, does anyone know a way to make a copy of the saved data while FG is running? I don't really want to go through hours of data entry with no guarantee that it won't just crash again and lose everything. Or am I stuck with closing/reloading every 5 minutes to keep from losing everything? Or better yet - is there a place other than the campaign folder that a backup xml file may be stored?
Thanks for your help!
rushl
It said something about a db.xml backup, and so I looked all over for it. I found one, but it didn't have anything in it either. Needless to say, I was irritated, so I quit for the night.
Today I was going to get back at it, but before I did I wanted to find a way to be /sure/ - *sure* - that what I had done was saved. I'd got the "Campaign saved" message a hundred times before, and ended up with nada. So, I want a way to save the gamestate FOR SURE. The catch is, I want to do it while FG is running, so I don't have to close and reload every 5 minutes. I tried making a copy of db.xml while FG was running (and even db.backup.xml) but apparently while FG is running it's all in RAM - I never could find the changes I'd made.
I also waited until I'd gotten a "Campaign Saved" message - and still I couldn't make a copy of a file that had /actually/ saved anything.
So, does anyone know a way to make a copy of the saved data while FG is running? I don't really want to go through hours of data entry with no guarantee that it won't just crash again and lose everything. Or am I stuck with closing/reloading every 5 minutes to keep from losing everything? Or better yet - is there a place other than the campaign folder that a backup xml file may be stored?
Thanks for your help!
rushl