You know how sometimes when you select a map, it pops up as if you selected Forge World? When you start it up, it's your map, no problem; but last time it did this, it corrupted my map and said that it was a completely different map. Well, I've been working on this one map for about a week, and it's started to do the above. I'm worried it might become corrupted, so I have like 10 extra saves of the same map. I was wondering: 1) How do I fix it from saying Forge World? (it pops up as Forge World on my Fileshare, as well) 2) Is there any way I can save my map from becoming corrupted, or is it indefinite? [Edited on 02.13.2011 1:24 PM PST]
I thought this problem fixed itself on my xbox, but it happens everytime I load customs on any Forge World maps.
It's happened to 3 of my maps in the last two weeks, yet had never happened before. Is there some kind of new thing going on here, some sort of corruption that's been introduced. I've never heard of this problem as much as I have been lately.
I might have around eighty maps on my hard drive, but I've always had around that many or even more and never run into this problem until recently.
In a Google search, I found an old FH thread that seems to make sense. Basically, Reach's file system is a database. Each map variant gets a record in this database; records contain the file's physical location on your hard drive, along with some metadata. What seems to be happening is that occasionally, the database becomes damaged and gets two files mixed up. So if I select "Sweet New Map" in the menu, but the game shows me "Bitter Old Map" in the lobby, it's because the database record for "Sweet New Map" is damaged. SNM's database record still holds the proper metadata (which is why SNM shows up properly in the File Browser), but for some reason, the field that should point to where SNM is on my hard drive instead points to where BOM is. So the "lost" map may still be recoverable, but only in the sense that a recently-deleted file on a computer may be recovered: specialized software and/or analysis of the file system would be needed, and some or all of the data may have been overwritten with new data after the deletion.
Am I the only one who has never experienced this overwriting glitch? Ok I lie, I have. Once. What happened was a variant created on Spire would load forgeworld. Other than that, nothing! Save as new map might help?
if you have a thumb drive you can move/copy the map to it and replace it, i had to do this along with deleting some maps to have some excess room on my hdd. just like computers some files can become fragmented and when you don't have enough room to move all the frags at once it may not read properly and redirect to a different map all together it also happened on my pc too