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exolyx

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My game wont load...
« on: December 10, 2011, 09:02:25 am »

I have this fortress with 45 dwarves in it, and I'm having trouble loading it. When I try to load it, I get the error message "One of the compressed files on disk has errors on it. Restore from backup if you are able." What should I do, and how should I do it?
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MagmaMcFry

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Re: My game wont load...
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2011, 09:54:18 am »

Well, your save is corrupted.
Do you have backup saves? If no, then your dwarves are lost. If yes, then go to df/data/save and delete the regionX folder (your current region), then rename the most recent regionX-abc-123 folder to regionX.
To prevent this from happening again, open df/data/init/init.txt and change [COMPRESSED_SAVES:YES] at the very bottom of your file to NO.
Then open df/data/init/d_init.txt and change


[AUTOSAVE:NONE]

[AUTOBACKUP:NO]


to

[AUTOSAVE:SEASONAL]

[AUTOBACKUP:YES]

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exolyx

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Re: My game wont load...
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2011, 06:04:32 pm »

Ah, so my dwarves are boned, but I can rebuild! (and this time they wont be slain by the wrath of the almighty god "Error" who takes the form of a little popup window and is associated with destruction, frustration, and anger.)
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Re: My game wont load...
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2011, 06:21:33 pm »

So you lost, but not in a fun way.
This makes me sad.
WHYYYYYYYYYY
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exolyx

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Re: My game wont load...
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2011, 07:19:34 pm »

yeah, well no use crying over (anticlimactic) spilled milk.
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Re: My game wont load...
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2011, 07:22:23 pm »

Oh, wait... THE BOOZE! ALL THE BOOZE IS WASTED! SUCH A WASTE! OH GOD WHY!?




and I'm done bugging out.
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