Editor can't load mission file with a changed name

[Varis]

So what I did:

 

1. Create mission

2. Fly a couple of times from the editor and save

3. Quit DCS and change the filename

4. Editor complains about missing file in the file browser GUI and crashes while loading the mission

5. Name file back to what I think was the original name

6. Repeat crash (now seemingly at a different point in the loading process)

7. Remove MissionEditor folder

8. Repeat crash still

 

Any way to recover from this? I guess it's more a feature than a bug, something must be messed up in DCS's bookkeeping?

 

The last errors/warnings are

 

2018-12-18 03:49:08.729 WARNING DCS: track file empty

2018-12-18 03:49:08.729 WARNING DCS: mission file empty

 

Running latest OB.

 

PS. Sent a couple of crash reports.

Edited December 18, 2018 by Varis

[Varis]

I was able to recover by using the Repair function in DCS and by copying the mission back from an external backup (that didn't work initially).

[Rudel_chw]

Glad you were able to recover .. I had not experienced the problem you describe, but on my experience the Mission Editor is fairly resilient

 

... for example I was trying to save some time by copying triggers (externally, using 7-zip and notepad++) from one mission to another, it works and if for example your target mission is missing a unit or a trigger zone present on the copy, it doesnt corrupt the mission, but rather the ME deletes automatically any trigger that references the missing items.

 

I've been lately enjoying creating missions but I do miss more facilities for reusing code segments from one mission into the next, for example I'd kill for the ability to select a group of units & statics with a lasso, to copy somewhere else :)

 

Cheers.

[Varis]

I've been lately enjoying creating missions but I do miss more facilities for reusing code segments from one mission into the next, for example I'd kill for the ability to select a group of units & statics with a lasso, to copy somewhere else :)

 

Couldn't you just write your own python code to generate such segments into the code you want?

[Rudel_chw]

By "code" I meant the action triggers of the mission ... I’d like to be able to copy/paste them from one mission into another.

[Varis]

Word on the street is shift+click might work... for airplanes at least.