Frustrating save document error

[nick_Peoples]

for some reason when i try to save one of my documents (gurglefight) a box comes up that says "failed to save document". i tried "save as" but the same glitch came up, and now i cant even find the file in the folder i had it saved in >


I also found that it wont let me test the file, either, and when i try to overwright it over another file it just deleltes the file i overwright.

please help,
-nick

[LB]

Sorry, your project is gone.

Hopefully you can pick up from one of the backups that I know to enabled MMF2 to make when you save. Just change the .000 or .001 or .002 ect extension to be .mfa

[vertigoelectric]

I found this thread because I had the same problem. I was very irritated!!

Anyway, I know it's probably too late to help you, but I found a fix for this.

Just rename your application name in the Workspace toolbar:

[img:center]http://www.vertigofx.com/images/screenshots/snap00128.png[/img]

For my project, it was named Fangame Beta, so I just made it Fangame BetaB and it let me save just fine. It also let me run it and all that, of course.

What a relief, too! I had already had to redo things twice. First time was because I had begun working on a version that was older than the most current, and by the time I realized it, either way I'd have to start something over. Then I started building a new level, and MMF2 just crashed... so I had to start rebuilding that level because I had not saved. When I started again, I began saving frequently, and then all of the sudden it wouldn't save any more, which brought me to this topic.

[LB]

Hmmm odd, I have a habbit of saving a million times a second and I never get this.

Well, whatever you can do to make it work

[DavidN]

I've had this once, too... but I'm not sure what caused it, and I was able to save once I'd closed and reopened MMF. Thanks for the idea for the workaround, I'll see if that works if it ever comes up again.

[00J]

yeah, we go over this again and again and again. I don't know why people save their whole idea to 1 single save and keep over writing that 1 file... [laugh]

I don't see how you'd ever make it past a week trying to make a game like that...

[LB]

Because there is such a thing as backups. But wait, there's more! They are done automatically if you have it set in the properties.