Holy CRUD! -- NEVER save your GameSaladProject twice in one folder...

JodyMitoma

I was using my regular GameSaladProject.gsproj file for a while now, so I figured i'd make a backup one just in case...

NOPE.

I accidentally saved the new project IN my current project's folder, and that is definitely messed right up. Although it made a new folder within the folder called "Game Salad Project (2)", it still somehow messed up a ton of my images somehow.

Never again. So much for backing up... I just reverted and caused a lot of extra work. Yay.

JodyMitoma

Grr.

Hopscotch

@JodyMitoma, when you want to import and test new images into your project always save the project under a new name BEFORE you import the images, as these get replaced on import. Saving just saves the logic.

JodyMitoma

I'm happy again.

I had to add ALL of the media files (images, music, audio) back into their correct folders within the GameSalad folder, then it just... worked again.

GameSalad, DON'T DO THAT TO ME!!

I've already been working on this game for 11 days now, and 3 of those 11 days were without sleep until the next night, lol..

JodyMitoma

I'm confused as to why it didn't make a replica of all of the media files, instead of just STEALING them from my old folder though??

JodyMitoma

@Hopscotch said:
JodyMitoma, when you want to import and test new images into your project always save the project under a new name BEFORE you import the images, as these get replaced on import. Saving just saves the logic.

Cheers for that mate!

Quick question then - a bit confused yet.

So, I want to save a BACKUP copy of my current project. Do I simply Save As... into a new folder?

If so, what'll happen? Will it take all of the media from my current save and move it to the new folder?

Hopscotch

@JodyMitoma, yes, saving to a new folder makes copies of everything in the new folder.

Dragging new images into an open project, changes the images in that project straight away, even before saving the logic/code.

Socks

@JodyMitoma said:
I was using my regular GameSaladProject.gsproj file for a while now, so I figured i'd make a backup one just in case...

If you are serious about the project - i.e. it's not just a test project you are playing around with - then you should be making incremental saves every time you make any kind of progress, if you are working on DeathAliens006 and get a menu button looking good then save it as DeathAliens007, when you finally manage to get the particle effect to work for that mothership explosion then save it as DeathAliens008 . . . and so on . . . so if the file corrupts or is otherwise broken you can just bin it and open up the previous version, just losing a little work.

The idea of working on a single GameSaladProject.gsproj file "for a while" (even if "for a while" means hours or days, let alone the weeks or months some people work on a single file) will mean you are constantly one corrupt file, deletion or disk error away from losing all your work.

Tl;dr with important projects (projects you want to keep) that you are working on full time you need to be incrementally saving (or otherwise backing up) at least a few times a day.