Lost my entire project

[Redrum1349]

Hey, I've been spending some weeks working on a project for RPG Maker MV. All was going well and fine. Last night I stopped working on it for the night, opened it up today and I'm getting file read errors. Now it's currently saying "Unable to read file CommonEvents.json. I've lost my entire project. Is there anyway to salvage my project? Or am I utterly screwed and forced to start over.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[MinisterJay]

Does it give you the error when you open RPG Maker MV or when you test drive the game?

Do you have a lot of Common Events? Do you remember what is in each common event?

 

[Redrum1349]

Does it give you the error when you open RPG Maker MV or when you test drive the game?

Do you have a lot of Common Events? Do you remember what is in each common event?

It gives me the error when I go to open the game file to work on and I'm not really sure. I opened the CommonEvents.json file and its blank. So. I assume not. Thanks for getting back to me.

 

[liveliner82]

First of all it isn't lost. You can open CommonEvents.json from a new Project and the damaged in the Folder /data/ of your Project in a texteditor and copy from damaged json the lines with ids over the "empty" lines with same id (you'll see what I mean when opening) and then overwirte/copy to your project. Or just watch the damaged file if there's a syntax failure (broken lines, some missing symbols or too much) and correct it.
Or ask for other ideas. :)

If really nothing helps, you only lost your common events and have to repoduce them with a new CommonEvents.json copied from a new Project.

Edit: Oh, ignored your last post, sry. Then last Tip. :/

 

[Redrum1349]

First of all it isn't lost. You can open CommonEvents.json from a new Project and the damaged in the Folder /data/ of your Project in a texteditor and copy from damaged json the lines with ids over the "empty" lines with same id (you'll see what I mean when opening) and then overwirte/copy to your project. Or just watch the damaged file if there's a syntax failure (broken lines, some missing symbols or too much) and correct it.
Or ask for other ideas. :)

If really nothing helps, you only lost your common events and have to repoduce them with a new CommonEvents.json copied from a new Project.

Edit: Oh, ignored your last post, sry. Then Tip 2. :/

This is what I'm seeing. The error message and the commonevents.json file thats completely blank

 

[liveliner82]

Okay then Your CommonEvents are lost (I think) -.- Copy over a new CommonEvents.json from new project to this in "yourgame"/data/ folder to reopen it without loosing the rest of the project. Or simply download attached file and rename .txt to .json / then replace. Then test to reopen your project.

And please check if when you start testplay then, the same thing happens. ;)

 

[Redrum1349]

Okay then Your CommonEvents are lost (I think) -.- Copy over a new CommonEvents.json from new project to this in "yourgame"/data/ folder to reopen it without loosing the rest of the project. Or simply download attached file and rename .txt to .json / then replace. Then test to reopen your project.

And please check if when you start testplay then, the same thing happens. ;)

Now its giving me an error saying it cant read the plugins.js .... -_-

 

[liveliner82]

also empty? -.-

 

[Redrum1349]

also empty? -.-

no they were there. i copied over the plugins from a new project and it seems to be working now. gonna do a test run to be sure
[doublepost=1463455009,1463454807][/doublepost]Everything seems to be working now other than my tilesets being slightly screwed up and some of my triggers and transfer points being messed up. I'll sort that all out. Thank you guys so much for the help!

 

[liveliner82]

No problem. And for future please backup your projects from time to time.

 

[MinisterJay]

also empty? -.-

Letting that two-worder reply slide, since you were in help mode. ;)