Woah make sure you back up before a system restore! - RunUO

slammy · 06-21-2003, 03:01 AM

I performed a system restore, back 2 days, because I had some problems with something unrelated to UO. I hadn't actually done any worldbuilding for at least 3 days, so I 'assumed' all would be well to do the restore!.

WRONG! I lost my entire worldfile! now the whole place is completely empty.

Anyone else had this happen, and is there a way to get it back, if you didn't backup? I'm using XP pro....

UOT · 06-21-2003, 03:34 AM

That's really odd since system restore only touches files that write to the registry. But you can always try using the system restore to undo the restore because it should save the files it's about to overwrite before it restores so you can make a backup hopefully before you run it again.

06-21-2003, 03:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
slammy Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5	Woah make sure you back up before a system restore! I performed a system restore, back 2 days, because I had some problems with something unrelated to UO. I hadn't actually done any worldbuilding for at least 3 days, so I 'assumed' all would be well to do the restore!. WRONG! I lost my entire worldfile! now the whole place is completely empty. Anyone else had this happen, and is there a way to get it back, if you didn't backup? I'm using XP pro....

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06-21-2003, 03:34 AM	#2 (permalink)
UOT Forum Expert Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Naples,FL Age: 32 Posts: 1,552	That's really odd since system restore only touches files that write to the registry. But you can always try using the system restore to undo the restore because it should save the files it's about to overwrite before it restores so you can make a backup hopefully before you run it again.

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