Meyomyx Posted April 11, 2021 Posted April 11, 2021 (edited) It's as simple as this - when you start DCS and go to the Mission Editor, you have the option to open an existing mission or create a new one. This is the correct behaviour. Open an existing mission, fly it or edit it and return to the main DCS menu page. Now when you open the ME you are presented (illogically)with an "EMPTY" version of the map you were just using. That's not consistent with the behaviour detailed above. Now here's the really dangerous bit. That "EMPTY" map has the filename that you were just flying. So if, for whatever reason, you inadvertently save this "EMPTY" map, it permanently overwrites that mission with an empty map. You can't recover it. I've lost two missions in the last couple of months - days of work - because of this. Whenever you go back to the ME, it should give you the option to open or create new, NOT present you with a blank map that has the default filename of the mission you were just working with. Very frustrating. Edited April 11, 2021 by Meyomyx 1 1
Rudel_chw Posted April 11, 2021 Posted April 11, 2021 5 hours ago, Meyomyx said: I've lost two missions in the last couple of months - days of work - because of this. It happened to me too .. to prevent this, I moved the Missions folder onto Cloud Storage, so that I can have versioning ... it helps a lot to recover from all sort of user errors & other disasters For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
dorianR666 Posted April 11, 2021 Posted April 11, 2021 i can confirm this bug the game doesnt reset the filename when clearing the mission 1 CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X GPU: AMD RX 580
Meyomyx Posted April 11, 2021 Author Posted April 11, 2021 I knew I couldn't be the only one. Sloppy programming on this bit, ED, but easy to fix.
Geff Posted July 4 Posted July 4 Don't know. It either still is not fixed or it started again ..... Lost a couple of hours of work on a mission this way. It was a 1st draft so had no versions yet. First thought it was my mistake. Then found out what had happened. This .... Frustating, to say the least
Rudel_chw Posted July 4 Posted July 4 2 minutes ago, Geff said: Don't know. It either still is not fixed or it started again ..... It has been that way for a long while. 2 minutes ago, Geff said: Lost a couple of hours of work on a mission this way. It was a 1st draft so had no versions yet. You can enable this option, so that you don't lose as much as 2 hours: 2 minutes ago, Geff said: First thought it was my mistake. Then found out what had happened. This .... well, actually it was your mistake, but the Interface of the ME could be more forgiving. For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Geff Posted July 4 Posted July 4 Hehe, you're right of course, sure enough was my mistake Thanks for your advise, completely forgot about that option, enabled it!
Geff Posted July 4 Posted July 4 (edited) PS: the autosave does not help a bit, it just saves the mission every x minutes by replacing it. If you overwrite it with a blank file it is gone, over and out, kaputt .. So I made a small app that copies my mission files to a backup every 5 minutes. Just in case I am doing something stupid again Edited July 5 by Geff 2
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