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[NewYears1978]

So basically my computer had some major issues, I backed up my Documents folder that had my mod in it..I forgot that the toolset uses databases and didn't back that stuff up so when I reformatted I lost my actual mod works stuff..

I still have the exported mod which still runs in game..but I had a couple things to edit and finish then I was going to release it..

Is there a way to import everything back into the toolset?  (I am guessing no..but figured it was worth a try at asking)

Thanks!

[BryanDerksen]

Unfortunately exporting the resources is similar in principle to compiling source code into an executable. In _theory_ you could recover a lot of it by reversing the process, but in practice it would take a great deal of work to write a tool to do that and it would still lose out on a lot of the formatting that makes stuff understandable by humans. You might be able to dig some of it out manually, I've never tried so I don't know how easy that'd be.

I'm afraid if you've lost your database and didn't make backups (either of the database itself or via builder-to-builder) then you've probably lost the source for good. For future reference to hopefully prevent this sort of loss again, there's a couple of little batch files in Program Files/Dragon Age/tools/DatabaseUtilities/Backup_Restore that will hopefully make it easier to make a backup before doing anything that might blow away the database. It's not the most polished of utilities, for example I don't think it handles backups that are stored in paths with spaces in the directory names, but it's what I use internally when working with the end user toolset database.

Modifié par BryanDerksen, 27 novembre 2009 - 07:38 .