Campaign Creations

Hi,

I've run into a problem with regular Staredit. I am working on a map and it's nearly finished. I make some esthetic changes, and it suddenly says "could not open [mapdir+name] for writing" as if it were actually being played in Starcraft.exe (you know when you test a map and forget to exit the map and you go back to Staredit to save things...). Well, that's not the case. Weirdest thing is, it DOES save the changes but it just keeps saying "could not open your shitty map for writing" when I hit the save button. No real problem, but I'm worried that I might be heading for a map corruption. I've made no recent backups so if that happens, I'm pretty much screwed.

Has this ever happened to anyone?

NB. I did edit some things in SCMDraft (which usually fucks up my stuff) but the weird error message only started after I'd been doing stuff in Staredit for a while.

Krazy wrote: Try threatening it.  If not, insult its mother.

Really though, all I can think is reboot and if not that, reinstall.  And make sure you have a backup ASAP.

Well, it doesn't do it on any other map, just this particular one that's taken me a lot of time to make. I made a backup now, but that only means I now have two maps giving me that error message.

Oh, and I assume you were joking, but I actually do threaten machines and devices. It's not even limited to personal computers - it's cell phones, refrigerators, plasma screens, microwaves... I threaten the shit out of 'em.

This problem happened to me once, too. First of all, open the map with WinMPQ. Then, extract the scenario.chk file from the mpq (if you added sounds you might be interested in extracting them too) and rename it as .scx. Open it with StarEdit and... voila! I hope this works.

Cheers!

~omega20

what if the map is saved into a damaged area of your HD?

I've had a case where I can't update some files too, and it's like XP hasn't stop some kind of operation or something with the file. I would copy my SC to a flash drive in this case, and copy the map and do a rename.

Nothing is more depressing than losing all the work. I really think this is an OS problem or something. Or maybe Staredit.exe is corrupted or something.