What happened today? lost all settings/macros
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More than one person besides myself reporting that earlier today, last char logged in on lost all settings. That's not the first time. This is fairly new had it happen on another char also a while back. The game starts then kind of flashes and restarts like the first time you start up UO music playing and no account name.
Tried making copy of EA games folder because as said, had this happen before. Still could not save char from starting as if first time logged
Is there anyway to restore lost information?
Tried making copy of EA games folder because as said, had this happen before. Still could not save char from starting as if first time logged
Is there anyway to restore lost information?
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Your character’s macros will not be copied, you will need to recreate these after the move, or copy the character’s file or folder on your hard drive.
To do this log out of uo and:
If you're using EC, you can just copy and paste all the info from one of the good characters files into the file of the character that lost everything. Unless the character that lost everything had a bunch of custom stuff your other characters don't have, you should be ok.
To do the above, follow Yoshi's steps and use Notepad to open the character file of one of your characters who did not lose all their settings. Hit crt-a to highlight everything in that file and crt-c to copy it. Make sure to copy, not cut. Exit the file.
Then open the file of the character that lost all the settings, hit crt-a to highlight everything in that file, push delete, and then crt-v to paste in the good settings from the other character. Save the file with the newly copied settings and log in. The character that lost all settings should now have all the settings from the "good" character.
Good luck!
I make a new folder and rename it Warrior, Mage Whatever, and put a copy of all the files that work.
Then replace the bad ones when needed. I just open two file exploders and drag the files from one to the other while the game is not running and replace the non working ones with the working ones.
This glitch where they erase happens once or twice a year for me.
You have never been a repair technician and tried to replicate intermittent problems. You would understand how difficult something is to fix if it works every time you use it. but then it returns to the shop 2 days later, and it still does all 500 things its supposed to do for you.
You can read more about the character file here, including how to just transfer or make backups of individual sections of the character file information.
Step 1. Connect an external hard drive to your computer and make sure it can be detected. Then, directly type “file history” in the search box and choose "Backup settings" from the final result list.
Step 2. In the initial backup window, click "+ Add a drive" button and select the prepared external hard drive. Then, you will see an on/off button under a new link "Automatically back up my files" and turn it on if it shows off.
Step 3. Click More options to set file history backup settings. By default, the backup interval is "Every hour" while backup retention is "Forever".
Step 4. Click "Add a folder" under the Back up these folders section and choose specific folders you want to backup in Windows 10. Afterward, click Back up now at the top location and start your first file backup.
Now, you already have a file history backup, you can restore file when needed. The simplest way is to right-click a file or folder and select "Restore previous versions", then select a backup version and click "Restore" to get your data back.“