In most of those posts I see angry and frustrated people and I can see why. The instructions given to them are CRAP!
These people, and myself included are ■■■■■■, and they were given extremely vague directions as to what to do, because are projects are crashing and wont open anymore.
I see my autosaves folder, and my backup folder, and in my backup folder I see a bunch of Files with the names of various blueprints and various save points, now what?
And please…try to imagine that I am a child or something?.. Can I get baby steps? I.e. “Right click on this, click this, click that, do this”.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can give me a hand. Also is there official documentation on restoring your projects? If not, why?
The backup and autosave folders are only any good if you know which particular asset is broken. With quite a lot of luck, you might find a recent unbroken copy in there, often not.
Apart from that you’re left with you own backup. This is a copy of the entire project folder which you make on a regular basis. Restoring this is case of chucking the current project folder and replacing it with a copy of your backup.
There isn’t an auto checkpoint system or anything like that.
Honestly they should have such “checkpoint” save, a.k.a. auto-save that actually works like an autosave. Maybe I am naive in how Engine saving works, since in Photoshop there’s an autosave feature that in case something crashes or goes wrong with PC, it literally can start from that auto-save. I just don’t know why it can’t be here in engine, I mean, it says time to time “saving content”, since I have set up auto saving thing where each 5 minutes it saves, no idea what it saves, but it saves something.
I have had crash before related to GPU or something, since that’s what error was mentioning, no idea what or why after building a scene, but that was in past, can’t remember specifics, but basically textures/material of placed objects like rocks, table, etc., except for grass and trees, were gone, just the object itself was left, had to give them those object materials back again, or place the object from a new.