fucking shit... state.... fuck...

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fucking shit... state.... fuck...

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Hi...
I was making a level in ale and I wanted to see what happened if you opened the state.dat file in ale. so i did it and it said: "Not a level file!"
so I thought: "ok." and carried on with my business. Then a couple of mins later I wanted to make a new level in ale, so I opened ale, did the level and pressed "Play". Elma started and it all turned green. I thought: "what the hell?!" I tried again, the same result... I then realized that i must have saved the level as a .dat file. So i tried to rename the level. And indeed I had saved the level as a .dat file, only not in the Lev folder :oops:. I had replaced my state.dat file with a level... all my times... Gone...

So my question is: Is the state.dat file located somewhere else than in the elma folder? I mean has my computer made a copy or something? I know this may sound stupid but I've heard that the computer makes copies of everything and puts it away. Is there anyway to get to my state file?
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Well you can get it from Abula if you've sent in to Records before..
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no I havn't sent in before. Is it true that the computer makes a copy of everything?
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lol, normal ppl have about 10 backups of their state.dat i think ^^ at least i have^^
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state.dat can also be created from scratch file if you have your times (stats.txt) and replays stored. That action has been used only a few times because it's very annoying work for me.
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maybe try some File Recovery program... but don't know if it would work on a file u have replaced.
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Abula wrote:state.dat can also be created from scratch file if you have your times (stats.txt) and replays stored. That action has been used only a few times because it's very annoying work for me.
I'm afraid i don't understand, Could you explain as if you would explain for a very low-intelligented creature =P.
Otherwise thanks for helping everyone =)
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heah nin, abula used the easiest words possible...

if u have the stats.txt from the lost state and also ur replays (to prove ur times) then abula can put together a new state for u, although as he said its max annoying work for him
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ooh. ok I understand. How annoing is this? I mean If it is very annoing then nevermind =) Internals aren't that important to me, besides I've got a state file that is a couple of months old on my other comp. I can use that if there is no other way to get my old one back.
+ I'm not sure but I think my stats.txt is also messed up.
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don't care, internals are not important :(
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Samir wrote:don't care, internals are not important :(
it's easier to cheat in externals, right? :?
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it's the same ease, btw i dont cheat
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that stats.txt->state.dat was made by me but infected said that it imported properly only after he drove some times, it got fucked up... i don't know, maybe i forgot to update no of records somewhere, it was some ez fast prog without much testing
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