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Map and Assets disappeared

A topic by jamieEGB created Mar 06, 2025 Views: 875 Replies: 1
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Hey all, may be missing something here - but my original project and the map I created for it with all the assets and placement of entities is completely blank after I load it up.

I created a new project and imported some textures into it, then saved the project under the new project name, but for some reason, when I went to load into my old project, I encountered a crash error. Following this, I reloaded the program and went to my original project to check where I was saving my maps, and suddenly, there is literally nothing in the project.

Have I lost everything I have done? It's not the end of the world, and I will restart, but it's a little frustrating as I put a lot of time into it.

**EDIT/UPDATE**
For anyone else who encounters this issue:

It appears the crash somehow saved over the original map on closing the application, erasing everything as it hadn't properly loaded into the project/map.

Luckily, there is a backup file that's generated automatically, and it hadn't been saved over so I managed to use this to restore the project and map (with only minor loss of work). I've since copied these twice over to prevent any similar instances.

Seconded - This just happened to me when I tried to make 2nd project from scratch with new names, new tiles - ect. My assets, sprites and more from the first game seem to be there but my map was wiped. I had been working on it for 100+ hours.

I found the "map.eem.backup"  file. Problem is I wasn't able to do anything with it, I renamed the extension but couldn't get it to load in the editor. Please let me know if I'm going about recovering this the wrong way.

What a shame!  I want to add that his certainly seems to be linked to creating a new game project. I'm afraid to work on two simultaneously now.