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Varatta
September 1st, 2022, 12:24
Messy breakdown - I live in Australia and my players live in Canada. I sometimes have trouble getting players to connect so sometimes I use a virtual PC to play. That means I have two versions of my campaigns - one on the home PC and one on my shadow. Recently I created a new one-shot campaign on my HOME pc. When we had troubles connecting I copied the campaign folder from that PC to my virtual PC - forgetting about the fact that my OTHER campaigns had advanced on that virtual PC! I went to open my main campaign and found it had reverted to a state from like, a year ago - presumably because I copied the campaign folder over entirely. I guess I thought it would merge the documents but I seem to have overwritten them instead.

Is this situation salvagable? I clearly wasn't thinking right when this happened under the pressure of getting the one shot underway.

Updates: I found a backup from march, but that's still a few months of lost work. I also looked for previous versions in windows but it is showing none.

Mephisto
September 1st, 2022, 12:55
Hi Varatta,
Fantasy Grounds usually creates a database backup when you leave the program. See if you can find a file like "db.session.20220823.xml" in your campaign folder, this would be the DB backup of your last session. If you only copied from the one to the other PC, you should only have overwritten the "master" db.xml file but all images and all DB backups should still be available and you should be able to recover the last session played. Fingers crossed!

Varatta
September 1st, 2022, 13:07
Awesome tip, thank you! So I found some from July (we haven't played in a while). How do I use that file to restore the campaign data?

Mephisto
September 1st, 2022, 15:44
Nice! Rename the "DB.xml" file to something else to preserve it as a backup. Make a copy of the backup file from July and rename the copied file to "DB.xml". Done and dusted. ;-)

Zacchaeus
September 1st, 2022, 16:01
More information here https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FGCP/pages/1207304196/Restore+Campaign+to+an+Earlier+Save

Varatta
September 1st, 2022, 23:46
OMG you bloody legends! Thank you SO much!