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[Lugaid of the Red Stripes]

I just lost a weekend's worth of work due to an odd circumstance.

About a month ago, I bought the DnD complete package to upgrade my vanilla NWN2 installation.  To my surprise, it installed NWN2 and the Toolset to a completely new directory, giving me two NWN2 installations, one vanilla and the other NWN2+MotB+SoZ.  Both point to the same My Documents folder for my user files, though.

So I decide to just keep both installations, and start working with the new version.  Everything's going great until this morning, when I try to modify and bake an area I made in vanilla NWN2 with the new toolset.  It crashes the toolset.  So I dig up an older copy, and it crashes, too.  After some other fiddling, I decide to load up an older verison of the area in the old toolset, and do the changes there.  It works.  I create a erf and go to put the modified area back into the new module.

But the new module is gone.

Before I did the installation, I backed up my whole my docs folder elsewhere on my hard-drive, and it was from that backup that I loaded the old version of the area.  But when I loaded it up in the toolset, it saved that older version of the module in the normal My Docs folder, overwritting my more recent work.

But there's a happy ending.  I poked around in Win7 and found a revert option that let me revert back to what the folder looked like four days ago.  (my own backups where a bit older than that).

So beware, the toolset is a beast.

[bealzebub]

whew, you got lucky.

[Dann-J]

I've long since stopped trusting the toolset, and make backups whenever I get something significant done. I always have a copy of the module I'm working on (right-click, drag, 'copy here'). Once I've tested the changes in-game and am satisified that nothing has broken, I delete the old copy and create a new one. At the end of every editing session I then back the module up to a USB stick.

It doesn't take too many toolset disasters to encourage you to be cautious. Thankfully the toolset seems to have an in-built auto-disaster feature that ensures they occur frequently enough to prevent you becoming complacent about backups.

[kamal_]

<--- Daily copy of what I'm working on to dropbox.

[MokahTGS]

 Yes multiple installs of NWN2=bad.  I had the same sort of issue with Jabberwocky a while back with my DVD install and my Steam install.  Both fighting over the MyDocs location and causing all sorts of crazy errors and bugs.  I'm still convinced this is what caused all my OM issues.

Luckily I haven't trusted the toolset since NWN days and always keep multiple backups of my backups.