I lost everything... months of work... nightmare

Simple Gamer Arts

So I did the worst thing; not make any backups on external hard drives or use iClouds or whatever... and yes, my hard drive is completely corrupt with no hope of salvation (already got all the help from Apple and actual Apple Technicians that looked at it). Months of 8 hour work days down the drain; I was making 500 levels for my game... not to mention an awesome code I did to it...

ONLY HOPE: My game is in my android gamesalad viewer... by any chance, is there a way to salvage this?

Braydon_SFX

Did you ever publish your game through the GameSalad Publishing Portal? If you did, it should have saved a copy that you can download.

adent42

So I don't know where the viewer stores files (never worked on it), but you might be able to use something like this to find it: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3214452/android/android-file-transfer-how-to-move-data-between-your-phone-and-computer.html

Simple Gamer Arts

@Braydon_SFX No I did not , but... there is hope!!!!

@adent42 Thank you!!! Ok, I have everything that makes up the game in a file in my computer now! I foun in my Android as you said and transfered it to my MAC, the only thing now is to convert all that info into an actual gamesalad file that opens in gamesalad. Any ideas??

Simple Gamer Arts

Ok, ALL GOOD! the .exe is .gameproj and it works, I just have to rename everything as it was as it was changed to just numbers,, but shouldn't be a problem I hope, all the original names are stored in a it's game file called "object".

APPRECIATE IT GUYS @adent42 @Braydon_SFX

Braydon_SFX

Phew! Glad you got it!

AlchimiaStudios

Nice to hear you got it back. Time to make a backup

Simple Gamer Arts

Amen to that brother! @Braydon_SFX @AlchimiaStudios >:)

CasualEvolution

Hi @Simple Gamer Arts I'm glad you could solve it ... to avoid these problems I work directly on a folder inside Dropbox, so I have the files permanently backuped and also accessible from other computers

jamie_c

Glad you were able to get your files back! Loosing it all is a heart stopper! I often do what @CasualEvolution mentions, work right out of my dropbox folder so the files are in multiple locations by default.

tatiang

@jamie_c said:
Glad you were able to get your files back! Loosing it all is a heart stopper! I often do what @CasualEvolution mentions, work right out of my dropbox folder so the files are in multiple locations by default.

I do the same.