Zewastian Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I'm not sure where this goes so please move it if this is in the wrong section. tl;dr I was trying to put a DST server from a different computer (and different account) onto my own computer, couldn't get the files to work, so I tried to take out the extra files, somehow lost files in the existing folder so that all my servers are gone, deleted all the files cause I'm a big dumby head, got them back and I need help figuring out how to put them all back/if some of the files are missing. The long version. I have been very sick lately so let me know if I leave anything out or anything is confusing. About a year ago one of my brothers friends bought him a copy of DST and since it was my favourite game he let me play on it sometimes with my best friend. We have a world on there that is something like 2000 days old and has no TNT trees and no Hallowed Science Lab in it because all of those items got burned down at the beginning of us playing because we were newbs and the Hallowed event ended. Now a year later I want to put the items back in the game and I have since purchased my own computer and my own copy of DST and thus want to move the files to my pc. Two days ago I finally got around to doing it and I followed (or attempted to follow) four different set of instructions on moving the files to my pc (and like a big dumby head, I didn't make a copy of my own files on my computer). This one I tried but is outdated, this one also didn't work, I attempted the first bit but I missed the last long bit and was too dumb to figure it out anyway, and I think that's it. So all the files got combined and I had copies of other files and I tried to copy code from one file into the other and that didn't work, so I undid the changes that I made (the specific file is called save_index). So I figured fine, whatever. But now I had copies of files amongst the other ones and it was all messy and I had mods from the one computer in the new one and it was one big giant mess. So I made a copy of these files (aha being smart!) and deleted what I thought were extra files and then booted up DST. Now all my servers were gone. SO then I took those files out of my DST folder and moved the untouched copy of files into the folder. Still no servers. How? Those files were untouched, unless the copy somehow messed it up. Now somehow I had three copies of DST saves, one from the other computer, one of the duplicates and one of the deleted. So then I went to the File Restore program and that was deactivated. I went to see if there were older versions of DST on my computer in the Properties menu (has to use that on DS once when Deerclops destroyed the Glommer statue in the world I was playing), but there was none there. So then I went to do a computer restore that said in the initial restoration that it would restore my files but when I ran it it said it didn't touch my files and indeed it hadn't and there was only one restore point, again for some reason. So then my should was absolutely crushed and angry and I deleted all the files because I just didn't want to deal with them. As you can tell by now, I'm the queen of bad ideas. When I got over my initial anger I realised I had made a huge mistake and restored the files with Recuva. About 1/3rd of the files it found were restorable, but I thiiiink I have one of each file. I know I have the save_index file at least that has some of the info, but now the files have no folders to separate them and I don't know what files go where or how to fix this mess. The reason why this server is so important to me because it was absolutely perfect for the playing preferences of me and my friend. The biomes were exactly where they needed to be, there were many juicy berry bushes (which at least in our experience is rare without bumping it in the settings which we didn't do, plus my friend was pretty happy to have them, even if they go bad in 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 miliseconds), there were many natural farms (or farms-ish), there was a cave entrance near our base and when going to it the ruins were close but not close enough to be dangerous. It's just sort of a rare thing that I'd rather not lose if I can help it. If I can at least extract the seed code (or codes if the caves have a separate seed code) from the game I will be happy. If anyone feels like trying to help me solve this mess I've got myself into I would be incredibly happy (and bonus point if they could help me get the other server onto my DST account/computer if that is still possible). Thank you so much for reading! Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/113401-help-tried-to-move-server-to-different-pc-and-my-game-broke/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwikenobi Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I don't know anything on this subject, and I'm sorry that I can't help you. But I would suggest changing the topic title to something a little more descriptive. "Heeeeeellllllllllllllppppppp" certainly got my attention and made me curious enough to click it, but it might not attract the attention of the people with the knowledge to help you with this particular problem. Best of luck. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/113401-help-tried-to-move-server-to-different-pc-and-my-game-broke/#findComment-1281509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CutChemist Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 If you havent check your trash bin for the files, Im assuming you're transferring the caves and master folders? Its tricky when you transfer from PC to PC in my experience but the easiest method for me was to make a world with the same settings and load in. Once the world is created you close the game -> delete caves and master folders and insert the old ones. For some reason, again in my experience, my character either loads in with all my stuff or I have to start fresh with a new character and no items in my old world now transferred over. Hope that helps Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/113401-help-tried-to-move-server-to-different-pc-and-my-game-broke/#findComment-1281512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zewastian Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 13 hours ago, kiwikenobi said: I don't know anything on this subject, and I'm sorry that I can't help you. But I would suggest changing the topic title to something a little more descriptive. "Heeeeeellllllllllllllppppppp" certainly got my attention and made me curious enough to click it, but it might not attract the attention of the people with the knowledge to help you with this particular problem. Best of luck. I cannot find the edit button for my post :/ Must be because I'm new. 13 hours ago, CutChemist said: If you havent check your trash bin for the files, Im assuming you're transferring the caves and master folders? Its tricky when you transfer from PC to PC in my experience but the easiest method for me was to make a world with the same settings and load in. Once the world is created you close the game -> delete caves and master folders and insert the old ones. For some reason, again in my experience, my character either loads in with all my stuff or I have to start fresh with a new character and no items in my old world now transferred over. Hope that helps I already deleted the folders then retrieved them from an undeleter program. Attached is what they look like now (notice the tiny slider bar). Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/113401-help-tried-to-move-server-to-different-pc-and-my-game-broke/#findComment-1281658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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