RommY Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 (edited) When you want to save your edition : When you select CTRL+S after a slight freeze (usual) a new mission is actually presented to you (name on the top left) instead of keeping the current mission on the screen You have to systematically reopen the mission you were editing after making a quick save AND Stil in the editor, the auto-save function does not work Edited March 21, 2023 by RommY correction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Elphaba Posted March 25, 2023 Solution Share Posted March 25, 2023 On 3/20/2023 at 4:01 PM, RommY said: When you want to save your edition : When you select CTRL+S after a slight freeze (usual) a new mission is actually presented to you (name on the top left) instead of keeping the current mission on the screen You have to systematically reopen the mission you were editing after making a quick save AND Stil in the editor, the auto-save function does not work FYI if you have ANY dialog inspector open on the right side of the Mission Editor the auto save won't save when its countdown completes, the countdown will just restart and wait until the countdown completes AND all those panels are closed. Because the way the ME was written it doesn't understand these 'atomic' changes (another reason it doesn't have undo/redo) and at this point it's impossible to add in without a HUGE amount of refactoring (basically a complete re-write). So yeah, this is known about and mentioned in the bug list, because people have lost hours / a day of work on a mission because they didn't understand or know this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RommY Posted March 28, 2023 Author Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) This is great, thank you for explaining the auto-save problem. However, there is still the problem of saving a mission while editing. When you go to "save" and click on it, DCS saves your mission BUT ..... shows me a new mission on the screen (marked on the top left of the screen) and if I want to find my mission I have to close this "new mission created by the editor" and open mine again. But if I make the mistake of saving this new mission (blank), I am unable to reopen my old mission because it will reopen but ..... blank This is my real problem. Edited March 28, 2023 by RommY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elphaba Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 On 3/28/2023 at 9:56 AM, RommY said: This is great, thank you for explaining the auto-save problem. However, there is still the problem of saving a mission while editing. When you go to "save" and click on it, DCS saves your mission BUT ..... shows me a new mission on the screen (marked on the top left of the screen) and if I want to find my mission I have to close this "new mission created by the editor" and open mine again. But if I make the mistake of saving this new mission (blank), I am unable to reopen my old mission because it will reopen but ..... blank This is my real problem. You might want to read this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elphaba Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 You know there is a SAVE disk icon on the left toolbar you can click? that is if you have already given it a name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RommY Posted March 30, 2023 Author Share Posted March 30, 2023 equivalent at CTRL+S and i've already tryied this but without success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elphaba Posted March 30, 2023 Share Posted March 30, 2023 On 3/28/2023 at 9:56 AM, RommY said: This is great, thank you for explaining the auto-save problem. However, there is still the problem of saving a mission while editing. When you go to "save" and click on it, DCS saves your mission BUT ..... shows me a new mission on the screen (marked on the top left of the screen) and if I want to find my mission I have to close this "new mission created by the editor" and open mine again. But if I make the mistake of saving this new mission (blank), I am unable to reopen my old mission because it will reopen but ..... blank This is my real problem. You're overwriting your old mission when you do that save. I think you're using it incorrectly. Once you've saved a mission with your filename you can just CTRL+S and it will save over the top of the old one. You shouldn't need a new dialog open unless you are doing the first save or using SAVE AS or NEW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RommY Posted March 31, 2023 Author Share Posted March 31, 2023 I can't make you understand because I don't explain it well I'm a network administrator and I know how to use a computer and save files, but you wouldn't know that. I'll try one last time and then stop wasting time with me (even if it's nice) I'm editing an assignment I've been working on for an hour. When I do CTRL+S usually my mission stayed in place on the screen and the *.miz file of the mission took the time to save (in the file manager). Since the last patch, when I press CTRL+S (or whatever) DCS loads a new mission in the editor and in the top left corner of the window it says: new mission (instead of the name of my mission). At this point, if I leave this new mission (which I don't need) without saving anything, I have to reopen my mission. And if you have the misfortune to answer, by leaving this (blank) mission that you want to record, it is your real mission that is erased by this (new mission) Some of my friends also have this bug but randomly, while I have it every day I hope I have made myself better understood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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